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Private lenders delay reckoning with payment concessions on stressed debt
By Matt Tracy WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Private credit lenders are working with specific borrowers to avoid loan defaults by enabling them to delay cash payments and extend concessions on their...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
Analysis-US tech stocks struggle for safe haven appeal in Iran market fallout
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Technology shares are struggling to act as safe havens in the turbulence wrought by the Iran conflict -- and that could be a big problem for the broad...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
Analysis-Treasury market's next test: rising war costs
By Karen Brettell March 31 (Reuters) - Inflation risks have driven Treasury yields higher since the U.S. clash with Iran ignited energy prices. Now another threat to bond market health is coming into ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
JPMorgan to increase small-business lending, hire more credit officers
By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase is planning a significant increase in loans to small businesses in coming years as part of a plan aimed at boosting growth in local U.S...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
US banks raising borrowing costs for private credit funds as AI fears pummel valuations, sources say
By Isla Binnie and Saeed Azhar NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Banks in the United States are charging more for some loans to private credit funds as doubts grow about the valuations given to some of t...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
Wall St futures gain on Mideast de-escalation hopes, monthly losses loom
By Purvi Agarwal and Twesha Dikshit March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures gained on Tuesday, as markets welcomed a report signaling potential de-escalation in the Middle East conflict that has...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
China to maintain appropriately loose monetary policy
BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China's central bank pledged on Tuesday to maintain appropriately loose monetary policy, while noting growing impacts from changes in the external environment. China's ec...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
Euro zone inflation surges past ECB target on oil shock
By Balazs Koranyi and Maria Martinez FRANKFURT, March 31 (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation soared past the European Central Bank's 2% target this month as surging oil and gas costs drove up headline pri...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
ECB's new models may help capture shifts in inflation expectations, blog post says
FRANKFURT, March 31 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has developed models to more closely monitor shifts in inflation expectations, it said in a blog post on Tuesday, a potentially crucial innova...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026
South Korea hit by steepest stocks selloff since 2008, currency tumbles
SEOUL, March 31 (Reuters) - South Korean markets buckled on Tuesday, with shares sliding toward their worst monthly performance since the global financial crisis and the won sinking to post-crisis low...
Thomson Reuters Mar 31, 2026



