LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Short sellers' bets against U.S. life insurance stocks more than doubled in the past year to over $5 billion, a Reuters analysis of ORTEX data shows, a move that analysts say in part reflects concerns about exposure to the opaque private credit sector. Jitters about private credit - lending to companies by non-banks, such as...

Major Wall Street indices opened slightly lower on Monday as uncertainty persisted regarding peace talks between the United States and Iran. Investors are also bracing for a dense wave of corporate earnings and the upcoming Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting later this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 118.5 points or 0.24% at the open to reach 49,112.2 points,...

FORT LAUDERDALE, April 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fleet Advantage, a leading innovator in specialty financing, fleet data analytics, asset performance services, and life cycle cost management, today released updated findings from its Truck Life Cycle Data Index (TLDI), which compares all-in operating costs of Class-8 trucks across recent model years. Released against the backdrop of a national diesel fuel...

* Indexes down: Dow 0.05%, S&P 500 0.07%, Nasdaq 0.27% * Trump cancels US envoys' visit to Pakistan * Qualcomm ( QCOM ) up 2.2% on report of OpenAI tie-up * Microsoft ( MSFT ) down 1.2% after amended partnership with OpenAI (Updates after market open) By Niket Nishant and Utkarsh Hathi April 27 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes...