Cracks in the US private credit market are widening:
Investors requested a record -$14.0 billion in redemptions from private credit funds in Q1 2026.
This is up +146% from -$5.7 billion in Q4 2025 and +278% higher than the -$3.7 billion in the full year 2024.
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BREAKING: The delinquency rate on Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) for offices surged +51 basis points in March, to 11.71%, the 2nd-highest on record.
This is now 1.0 percentage point above the post-2008 Financial Crisis peak set in 2012.
Furthermore, the… pic.twitter.com/owZ56NQbbS
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Repo fails spiked to more than $415 billion. Treasury bill prices are jumping. Prices. US bank dealers are using their record government bond holdings at the same time foreigners are deploying huge amounts of their reserves of the same instruments. Treasuries bonds are all over the shadows and it has nothing do with interest rates or the Fed, except the Fed is providing a lot of the data. What does it all mean? The answer -a critical part of it – can be found in Nigeria.