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AI Shock Tests $3tn Private Credit Market as Software Rout Exposes Concentration Risk NEW YORK — A fresh wave of concern has rippled through private credit markets as investors and asset managers reassess how loans to software companies will perform if artificial intelligence permanently compresses revenues, shortens product life cycles, or reduces the buyer pool for distressed assets. The private-credit ecosystem has grown rapidly
BITCOIN BOUNCE AVOIDS $60K BREAK AS ETF OUTFLOWS AND LIQUIDATIONS DRIVE VOLATILITY NEW YORK — Bitcoin narrowly avoided a sustained break below $60,000 on Friday, snapping a late-session slide and reclaiming ground into the mid-$60,000s by the close as buyers stepped in at a psychologically important level. The move capped a turbulent set of trading sessions that saw the cryptocurrency
SILVER SELL-OFF SNAPS SHORT-LIVED REBOUND AS MARGIN CALLS, LEVERAGE AND OPTIONS TRADING ROIL MARKETS LONDON — Silver resumed a violent descent on Thursday, erasing a short-lived rebound and forcing traders, treasurers and risk managers to confront how fragile liquidity, large leveraged exposures and options-driven mechanics can amplify moves in a small but crowded market. Prices moved from record highs reached in late January to rout