Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (43%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Châteauroux	Website Down	1 day ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	3 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	3 days ago
Perth	Sign in	4 days ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	4 days ago
Kassel	Sign in	9 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Tech Stox (@techstox) reported 5 minutes ago

  PayPal turned down a $60.50 buyout. Stock is ~$54 pre-market after the buyers walked. Yesterday it closed $61. The run-up this summer was a Q2 beat plus “someone might take this private.” One of those just died. What’s left is a payments company still losing checkout share to Apple and Google, half a year into a new CEO, and no bid sitting under the price. Bloomberg says the group could come back. The stock got expensive relative to $60.50 - which is why they left. Cheaper from here, that math changes again. Did the board overplay it, or refuse to sell too cheap?

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  Abdulrahman (@Aldahhas_) reported 8 minutes ago

  🚨 PAYPAL $PYPL IS GETTING CRUSHED: Shares are down ~13% after reports that Stripe and Advent abandoned their pursuit of PayPal. • Proposed offer: $60.50/share • Implied valuation: ~$53B • PayPal reportedly viewed the offer as too low The key now: the M&A premium is disappearing, forcing investors to value PayPal on its standalone turnaround. $PYPL

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  Derrick Dao (@derrick_dao) reported 11 minutes ago

  @danprimack Two suitors, one exit, -10% in after-hours. PayPal doesn't need a buyer — it needs a business model. That's the harder problem.

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  Nandkishor (@devops_nk) reported 14 minutes ago

  @lalitgrateful I did not use wise but paypal work so well only problem is that they are charging so much fees suppose we are receiving 100$ they will deduct 7-8$ as a fees 🥲

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  David Chijioke Eze (@Ezedavid1994) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Kasablanka16590 @RizoWeb3 Listing of $PI by PayPal will give PI Network facelift in the US and i believe it'll start paying off really soon. Meanwhile, pioneers are really the issue as majority don't hold. I believe that when SMC is live on mainnent & DEX too, the real potential of Pi Network'll be seen

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  Value Investor (@ValueInvestShow) reported 17 minutes ago

  $PYPL down as much as 12% Because the largest buyout attempt in fintech history just fell apart. Advent and Stripe had offered $60.50/share, valuing PayPal above $53B. PayPal's board called it inadequate and flagged regulatory and financing hurdles. The stock had run up for weeks purely on takeover odds and now? That premium is now unwinding in real time. Should $PYPL 's management accepted the offer? What's your take Paypal shareholders?

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  Lina ᥫ᭡.ִֶָ𓂃 (@fundsssss) reported 20 minutes ago

  @PayPal Why is my account restricted??????? Saying I haven’t logged in for over 3 years? Why the lie? This is the third PayPal account I’m opening that’s getting closed down for no damn reason. If you know you don’t want Nigerians using your stupid app then just ban us ffs!! Wtf

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  M Heilner (@mjh2008) reported 21 minutes ago

  @CharliePawsUp Ok, folks - time to rally the troops and support our pal @CharliePawsUp and his mama! They have until Monday to get the rent money together and are behind on other bills, too, due to slow summer store months. Links in bio for PayPal and turkey sammiches!

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DUBNATION107 @BookitWithTrent Wasn't "begging" anything. It's to deposit into betting accounts thru Venmo/PayPal because my bank gives issues and I get the run-around from them and bet apps

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  simple (@ZhengNanyu) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Paypal are poor customer support, if don't say even none, and make it more terrible.

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  Moby 🐳 (@MobyInvest) reported 30 minutes ago

  PayPal shares are sinking after a Bloomberg report says Advent and Stripe have walked away from their takeover bid. The pair had offered $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B. $PYPL is down more than 11% today.

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  A.K (@ak_ecom) reported 31 minutes ago

  @nichdo_ Add your card to PayPal and you won’t get this issue.

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  Palmer (@BankTheTrade) reported 32 minutes ago

  $PYPL 61.47 down 10 a report that potential buyers of the payments company have walked away from negotiations. Shareholders will have to put their faith in the company's turnaround plans instead. Financial-technology company Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International have given up on acquiring PayPal after offering more than $50 billion for the company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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  QuantScraper (@QuantScraper) reported 32 minutes ago

  "Where the noise fades and the signal speaks—your daily market pulse starts here" Market Brief — August 28 (Generated by GPT 5.6): Wall Street ended the week modestly lower as Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole message forced markets to price a substantially greater probability of another Fed hike. The S&P 500 fell 0.25% to 7,711.76, the Nasdaq dropped 0.52% to 26,402.42, the Dow slipped just 9.45 points, or 0.02%, to 53,559.99, and the Russell 2000 declined 1.39% to 2,972.37. The disproportionate damage in small caps was consistent with the session’s central theme: higher expected short-term rates hurt the most rate-sensitive parts of the market. For the week, the S&P 500 and Dow still gained about 0.5%, while the Nasdaq added 0.8%. Warsh’s first Jackson Hole address as Fed Chair was distinctly more hawkish than investors had expected. He described the Fed’s 2% PCE inflation objective as a “firm, fixed target,” stressed that price stability is not automatic, and reiterated that short-term interest rates are the Fed’s predominant policy tool. He also argued that broad financial conditions are difficult to characterize as restrictive and said inflation remains the side of the dual mandate requiring the Fed’s predominant attention. Warsh deliberately avoided promising a September move, preferring a rules-based “discipline” to explicit forward guidance. The Treasury market delivered the clearest reaction. The 2-year yield surged 11.8 basis points to 4.348%, while the 10-year climbed roughly 5 basis points to 4.721% and the 30-year finished around 5.207%. Fed-funds futures moved the probability of a September quarter-point increase to roughly 58% from about 35% the previous day. The much larger move in the 2-year than in the long end produced a bear-flattening signal: investors increased expectations for near-term Fed tightening without dramatically increasing long-run inflation compensation. Consumer sentiment simultaneously weakened, highlighting the tension between the Fed’s inflation problem and household purchasing power. The University of Michigan’s final August sentiment index fell to 51.7 from 55.2, with current conditions declining to 51.9 and expectations to 51.5. Year-ahead inflation expectations eased to 4.0% from 4.2%, while long-run expectations stayed at 3.3%. Consumers therefore see some moderation in inflation ahead, but confidence remains deeply depressed because prices are still expected to rise faster than households would like. Marvell became the session’s clearest demonstration that excellent AI fundamentals can still be insufficient when expectations are extreme. $MRVL reported quarterly revenue of about $2.74 billion, up 37%, adjusted EPS of $0.94, and Data Center revenue growth of 46%. Management guided the following quarter to approximately $3.15 billion of revenue and $1.10 EPS and raised longer-term revenue expectations. Yet the shares fell sharply because investors wanted the Google custom-chip opportunity to contribute materially sooner than management indicated. The market was not questioning AI demand; it was questioning how much future success was already embedded in Marvell’s valuation. Nvidia was pulled into the same valuation reset only one day after its spectacular post-earnings rally. $NVDA fell 4.57% on Friday after surging 8.7% Thursday following its blockbuster results. No material deterioration in Nvidia’s operating outlook emerged during the session; rather, the combination of higher Treasury yields and Marvell’s negative reaction encouraged investors to take profits across expensive AI infrastructure names. The episode reinforces an increasingly important distinction: AI demand remains extraordinary, but the required earnings surprise is becoming extraordinary too. Workday delivered the opposite verdict and strengthened the case that enterprise software can monetize agentic AI directly. $WDAY rose about 5.8% after reporting $2.649 billion of revenue, up 12.8%, and subscription revenue of $2.471 billion, up 13.9%. AI contributed more than 25% of new annual contract value, while more than 5,500 customers were using at least one Workday AI agent. Management lifted fiscal-2027 subscription-revenue guidance to $9.94–$9.95 billion and raised its non-GAAP operating-margin outlook to 31%. Gap produced one of the strongest consumer-stock reactions of the day despite highly uneven performance across its portfolio. $GAP finished roughly 13% higher after earnings exceeded expectations and management raised its annual profit outlook. Total company revenue fell 2%, but comparable sales at the Gap brand surged 10%, while Old Navy comps fell 4% and Athleta dropped 12%. The stock’s reaction showed investors focusing on improving profitability, the strength of the core Gap turnaround and management’s decision to install Michael Francis as Old Navy’s next CEO rather than on the weak consolidated top line. PayPal suffered the session’s largest event-driven corporate collapse. $PYPL fell 12.71% to $53.66 after reports that Stripe and Advent International abandoned acquisition discussions. The proposed consortium had reportedly considered a transaction valuing PayPal at more than $53 billion, but the talks failed to produce an acceptable bid. The stock immediately lost the takeover premium that had accumulated around the speculation and returned investors’ attention to the more difficult question of PayPal’s standalone competitive position. Elastic delivered one of the cleanest software earnings wins of the session. $ESTC surged roughly 17% after fiscal-Q1 revenue increased 15% to $478 million, adjusted EPS reached $0.70, current remaining performance obligations rose 21% to $1.153 billion, and adjusted free cash flow reached $143 million. Elastic also improved its outlook. Combined with the strong recent results from Salesforce, Workday, Okta and CrowdStrike, the report weakens the narrative that generative AI will simply destroy incumbent enterprise-software economics. In several areas, AI is instead increasing search, observability, security and data-management demand. Affirm provided a second important corporate growth signal, although its intraday rally largely evaporated by the closing bell. Fiscal-Q4 revenue increased 33% to $1.17 billion and gross merchandise volume surged 36% to $14.1 billion, while fiscal-2027 GMV guidance exceeded $64 billion. The stock traded sharply higher during the session but ultimately closed only 0.35% higher at $77.76, a useful reminder that even powerful earnings momentum is being subjected to aggressive profit-taking in the current valuation environment. Oil, gold and volatility together showed that Friday was a monetary-policy repricing rather than a broad flight from risk. WTI slipped 0.2% to $83.40, while October Brent declined 0.4% to $89.31; for the week they fell 4.2% and 5.4%, respectively, as alternative Gulf export routes reduced fears of an immediate supply squeeze. December COMEX gold settled at $4,529.90, down $134.10, or about 2.9%, on the day as the jump in Treasury yields punished non-yielding assets. Meanwhile, the official Cboe VIX actually fell 0.55% to 14.43, confirming that investors were repricing rates and individual stocks rather than buying broad equity crash protection. The signal: Friday’s market was fundamentally about the price of money, not the disappearance of growth. Warsh materially changed the near-term policy distribution. A jump in September hike odds from roughly 35% to around 58% is economically more important than the S&P 500’s quarter-percent decline. The 2-year yield’s 12-basis-point surge confirms that investors now see a substantially greater chance of another policy tightening move. At the same time, the long end moved much less aggressively. That matters. The curve’s bear flattening suggests that Warsh’s credibility on inflation may actually have reduced some long-run uncertainty even as it increased the expected near-term policy rate. The immediate valuation problem for equities is therefore higher-for-longer short-term financing costs, not an uncontrolled long-term inflation spiral. Corporate results remain far more constructive than the index close implies. Workday, Elastic and Gap delivered strong positive reactions, while Marvell and Nvidia fell despite powerful underlying AI fundamentals. The distinction is increasingly about expectations versus delivery: investors are rewarding incremental upside that was not already priced and punishing companies where extraordinary future growth has already become the base case. The consumer remains divided rather than collapsed. Michigan sentiment is weak and inflation anxiety remains elevated, yet Gap’s turnaround and Affirm’s transaction growth show that households are still spending selectively. That is a harder environment for companies because broad consumption growth can no longer hide weak execution. The next decisive test is labor. July JOLTS arrives Tuesday, September 1, and the August Employment Situation arrives Friday, September 4 at 8:30 a.m. ET. A firm payroll and wage report would reinforce Warsh’s case for another hike; a material downside surprise would reopen the argument that the Fed should tolerate inflation somewhat longer rather than risk overtightening into a weakening labor market.

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  Tratte Buzun 👻 (@Faheem_xxii) reported 34 minutes ago

  Most owners still use Claude like a polite intern who rewrites emails. That is the least useful thing it can do. Claude for Small Business now sits in Cowork with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. It can reconcile, chase, draft, and package work. You approve before anything sends, posts, or pays. Many never flipped the toggle. They kept pasting into chat and wondering why it sounded generic. Stop asking it for sentences. Give it a job. 1. Build a business brain. One Project: offer, pricing, voice samples, FAQ, three winning proposals, two that lost, who you sell to, what you refuse. Skip this and you keep editing sludge. 2. Monday pulse. One page: cash, uncleared settlements, pipeline, this week's commitments, three things that hurt if ignored. Ends the twelve-tab morning. 3. Chase invoices. It reads open invoices, checks settlements, drafts the follow-up, queues it. You approve. Overdue cash stops rotting in a Friday spreadsheet. 4. Close the month for your accountant. Reconcile, flag mismatches, plain-English P&L, export a packet. They want fewer surprises, not a novel. 5. Forecast the ugly week. Thirty days out. Payroll vs incoming cash. Name the week you run out if two invoices slip. 6. Find busy work that loses money. Job costs, SKUs, clients. What looks healthy on revenue and thin on contribution. 7. First-pass contracts. MSA, vendor deal, lease. Flag odd indemnity, auto-renew traps, deviations from your terms. Not your lawyer. The highlighter before the lawyer. 8. Proposal factory. Load three that closed. New draft from a discovery call, same scope style, disclaimers already in. If first drafts still take half a day, the Project is empty. 9. Discovery call to next moves. Transcript in. HubSpot brief, follow-up, open questions, scope outline out. 10. Triage inbound. Sort by fit, budget signal, time-to-close. Draft the yes, the not-now, and the no. Stop answering in arrival order. 11. Support voice from real tickets. Paste twenty replies you were proud of. New complaints get that register, not helpdesk English. 12. Campaign from the slow stretch. Where revenue dipped. Which send moved pipeline. Then Canva assets against that brief, not "we should post more." 13. Repurpose one real offer. Workshop, drop, case study. Sales email, reminder, landing section, three posts that do not sound cloned. One source. Many surfaces. 14. Lead magnet that does work. ROI calculator, quiz, scope estimator as an Artifact. If it answers a question your sales call always answers, keep it. 15. Hire with a scorecard. Role brief, first-week plan, candidate emails. Same standard every time someone quits. 16. Handbook answers the team. Policies, PTO, invoicing, refunds. Staff ask Claude instead of you at 7pm. 17. Tax folder while it is boring. Missing docs, categories, questions your accountant asks in March. October is a gift. April is a tax. 18. Vendor quotes on one page. Price, term, lock-in, exit, the thing buried on page nine. 19. Turn the Monday task you hate into a Skill. Weekly report, recap, SOW format. If it repeats and the bar is specific, stop re-prompting it. 20. Cowork the sites with no connector. Portal report, form, the CSV a vendor still emails. Messy. Cheaper than a VA on the same six screens. Do not let it send, post, or pay in week one. Watch drafts. Fix the voice. Then widen the leash. Owners getting time back are not better prompters. They gave Claude a filing cabinet, a few tools, and one job with a human checkpoint. Start with the Project, the Monday pulse, and invoice chase. The rest can wait until those feel boring. Which of these replaced a real hour, and which still produced a draft you rewrote?

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  MojoTrick (@MojoTricks) reported 36 minutes ago

  PayPal just lost its bid premium in one headline. $PYPL down 14% Bloomberg reported Stripe and Advent International dropped a pursuit valued at about $53 billion. The consortium had offered $60.50 a share in July, a roughly 28% premium. The board called that inadequate, citing regulation, financing and the turnaround under new CEO Enrique Lores. The stock fell more than 14% to around $52. That is near 10 times forward earnings versus a long-run average closer to 27 times. The market is pricing two things at once. The deal is off. And Apple Pay and the rest of digital payments still sit on the same field. A take-private that cannot clear the board does not fix either problem.

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  Senb0n22a (@senb0n22a) reported 44 minutes ago

  @mattlovesjenni i only hate them when they intercept your normal login and try to apply one every goddamn time you try to login. e.g. paypal & microsoft, leave me tf alone, i login with password and that's all I want to do.

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  XDCypher22 (@Mr_Blockchain22) reported 45 minutes ago

  Great article @XinfinUSA. You touch on a lot of points that stand true. Each crypto cycle brings a new piece of the puzzle that will enhance the use of blockchain. Blockchains immutability and AI capabilities go hand in hand. It is also notable to point out that most people don’t care how an app works, they just care that it works and serves the function that solves their problem. PayPal for example, moving money around while keeping the buyer’s credit card or banking info private. Or Venmo allowing merchants to receive payment for goods. Most people don’t know how the money is moved, they just care that they get paid as a vendor or pay a merchant as a user while keeping your data safe. Similarly with blockchain, we need AI to facilitate how a user will interact with it and nothing else. In years time, 98% of the planet wont care if your payment happened on XDC, Solana, XRP or BTC. They will care the cost of the transaction and that it didn’t fail in the process. The integration of AI will definitely close the gap between blockchain and the users. Most companies developing on AI care about the nest phase, and that is compliance and identity of those agents. Can I trust this agent to move $$$ to pay for goods and services. Can your AI agent talk to my agent to complete this transaction without falling victim of a scam, etc. We’re seeing the shift with all the companies we are meeting regarding AI and the major part of that is compliance. To move money around the world, institutions want to know if the other person on the other side of the screen or phone are who they say they are. That they will do what they say they will do, and that you’ll get either your $ or the goods you ordered. IA agents wont be any different. Then blockchain will be the immutable layer for accountability and trustworthiness. Excellent article.

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  ArtRed Venus (@ArtredV) reported 45 minutes ago

  @astro_greek There is a backdoor problem with Paypal and hackers where using paypal to bleed my paypal account dry and charge me all these facebook advertising fees taking anything from $300-$500. I no longer use paypal.

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  Mert Ocal (@MertOnMarkets) reported 45 minutes ago

  $PYPL — PayPal Holdings Digital payments — PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, Xoom. Mkt cap: ~$45B | P/E: ~9.9x (fwd ~9.3x) — just above the all-time floor (~7.5-8.4x, hit Q1 2026) News: Stripe + Advent's ~$50B buyout bid has collapsed. Shares down ~15% premarket to $52.20 — takeover premium unwind, not a business breakdown. Technicals: price is sitting on the exact same 0.236 Fib + channel support that marked the 2016-17 accumulation zone — the one that preceded the multi-year run to $310 by 2021. My read: this is accumulation, not a floor to rally from yet. Expect 20-30% swings both ways inside this zone through the next couple years — my target year for PayPal is 2028, not now. Building a position on weakness, not chasing strength. NFA. Chart below

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  Dee (@diranoteg) reported 47 minutes ago

  PayPal was literally killing small businesses, holding their funds endlessly without any explanation. Now they've become a total failure. Wise @Wise your time is coming. Your company stock has been stagnant for 5 years. Eventually, short sellers will pile up on your garbage stock and push the price down.

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  Shadowy Figure - (I follow back) (@ProtonNinja) reported 52 minutes ago

  Your first issue is using PayPal.

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  excel_saga (@Lord_Ilpalazzo) reported 52 minutes ago

  @FreyasFantasys Yay! Did the attorneys fix it or PayPal just said ah F it... here you go.

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  Deeman trades (@deemancpa) reported 53 minutes ago

  $PYPL part 2 Business is fine — rev +8%, FCF +179%, 10x earnings, 12% FCF yield. What vanished overnight was the $60.50 buyer. Now the market has to value PayPal on its own: a slow-growth, shrinking-take-rate payments co with a 5-month-old CEO and Apple/Stripe/Visa eating share. Bulls: ~7x FCF for Venmo + PayPal brands is Business is fine — rev +8%, FCF +179%, 10x earnings, 12% FCF yield. What vanished overnight was the $60.50 buyer. Now the market has to value PayPal on its own: a slow-growth, shrinking-take-rate payments co with a 5-month-old CEO and Apple/Stripe/Visa eating share. Bulls: ~7x FCF for Venmo + PayPal brands is cheap. Board said no because they think it’s worth more. Bears: 3-month rally was pure deal premium. Pre-bid price was mid-$40s. $47 support, then $38. Translation: no floor from a buyer anymore. The turnaround has to prove it. Not financial advice. . Board said no because they think it’s worth more. Bears: 3-month rally was pure deal premium. Pre-bid price was mid-$40s. $47 support, then $38. Translation: no floor from a buyer anymore. The turnaround has to prove it. Not financial advice.

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  Cadbury Capital Investments (@cadburycapital) reported 57 minutes ago

  Daily Brief (28 August) 1. PayPal ($PYPL ): reports that the Advent/Stripe consortium walked away from takeover talks sent shares plunging as much as 14%. Although some analysts flagged factors that could support a rebound, I am always going to call it the beautiful PainPal. 2. Marvell ($MRVL ) posted a strong quarter but shares fell as much as 8% and headed for their worst day in a month, with investors fixated on delayed timing of the Google AI deal revenue. 3. Fed rate-path uncertainty spiked after Kevin Warsh's hawkish comments pushed hike odds higher, turning the September decision into a coin flip. Market went green regardless but it did not sustain that long and we saw a delayed reaction to Fed’s comments. 4. Retail earnings were mixed but skewed positive: Gap/Old Navy parent $GAP jumped as much as 15% on an 11th straight quarter of comp-sales growth, while Walmart ($WMT ) quietly settled a federal opioid lawsuit without disclosing terms. Good news for $GAP is good news for $ZETA 5. Software seems officially back. Autodesk ($ADSK) raised guidance on strong Q2 revenue growth and Salesforce ($CRM) jumped on a Q2 beat, while Rubrik ($RBRK) sold off as investors questioned its results. 6. Amazon ($AMZN) gained about 4% after Evercore argued agentic AI could boost its retail growth outlook. 7. Eli Lilly ($LLY) got an FDA nod expanding Mounjaro's use for heart risk reduction. 8. Take-Two ($TTWO) landed a Netflix tie-in ahead of GTA VI. Netflix servers went down briefly as gamers flooded to watch the trailer. RATE HIKE and VIX SPIKE MIGHT BE COMING FOR US THIS SEPTEMBER.

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  Ringside (@Ringside_Daily) reported 59 minutes ago

  PayPal is down 11.60% to $54.34 after Advent and Stripe abandoned their pursuit. The group had offered $60.50 a share in mid-July, valuing PayPal north of $50 billion. The board considered that price inadequate. The stock now trades about 10% below the bid it turned down.

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  NuffxSaid (@NuffxSaid) reported 60 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Had a close friend lose his business visa over @PayPal. They thought he was selling drugs. He was selling mattresses and decor to hotels and hospitals. They should be shut down imo, this kind of thing happens way too often with them.

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  guy that likes starlo 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🇵🇸 (@cheesemuffin69) reported 60 minutes ago

  @SAY4CHEESE4 I think cuz of a gambling problem I had PayPal kept thinking my acc got hacked so I’m permanently banned from there

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  Natalia (@nataliahuzz) reported 1 hour ago

  Paypal has gotten a much needed looks upgrade and im down for it

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  Finance Spot (@financespotnews) reported 1 hour ago

  Michael Burry went public on PayPal 134 days ago. The stock is still +9% from that call. On July 15, $PYPL jumped 17% on buyout rumors. That same day Burry called the offer “simply too low.” Last night, Stripe and Advent International walked away from the takeover. $PYPL is down ~11–12% today — and Burry is still ahead.