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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 3 minutes ago

  PAYPAL $PYPL LOST $8.2 BILLION OVERNIGHT. S&P 500 FUTURES ARE DOWN 2.75 POINTS: PayPal PYPL at $51.86 (premarket), -$9.61 / -15.6% from Thursday's $61.47 close. The San Jose company runs the payment button at online checkouts, plus Venmo and Braintree. Bloomberg News reported that the group trying to buy the entire company - the private-equity firm Advent International and the privately held payments company Stripe - has dropped the pursuit. PayPal, Stripe and Advent each declined to comment. So a 15.6% fall is happening this morning on a news report that none of the three companies involved has confirmed. Multiply that $9.61 by the 855.5M PayPal shares in existence and about $8.2B of market value - one share's price times every share, the whole company's price tag - went missing between Thursday's closing bell and this sentence. Now look at what the American futures board did with it. Index futures are contracts on where an index will trade at a set date later on. They run all night, which makes them the earliest and least reliable clue about where the 9:30am ET opening bell lands. - Dow futures: 53,637.00, +16.00 pts / +0.03%. - S&P 500 futures: 7,739.75, -2.75 pts / -0.04%. - Nasdaq-100 futures: 29,611.50, -84.25 pts / -0.28%. - Russell 2000 futures: 3,014.70, -4.30 pts / -0.14%. WHY $8.2 BILLION BARELY REGISTERS An index is an average, and an average is a machine for making one loud number quiet. The S&P 500 tracks 500 companies. PayPal was worth $52.6B at Thursday's close - real money, and a modest slice of that crowd. Spread one company's worst night of the year across 499 others having an ordinary one and you get 2.75 points. The funds that hold those baskets say the same thing. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, ticker SPY, at $771.06 (premarket), -$0.04 / -0.01% from Thursday's $771.10 close. Four cents. Invesco QQQ Trust, ticker QQQ, at $719.07 (premarket), -$2.04 / -0.28% from $721.11 - it tracks the Nasdaq-100, a much shorter list, and PayPal is on it. That is most of the split on the board above. The Dow contract is the green one because the Dow holds 30 companies, and neither of this morning's two big fallers is among them. THE OTHER FALLER IS THE BIGGER INDEX EVENT Marvell Technology at $221.24 (premarket), -$20.21 / -8.4% from Thursday's $241.45 close. The Wilmington, Delaware company designs the chips that shuttle data around inside a data center - the plumbing of the AI build-out rather than the processors that get the headlines. It reported its fiscal second quarter Thursday after the close: record revenue - money coming in the door - of $2.739B, +37% from a year earlier and +13% from the previous three months; adjusted profit per share, meaning earnings with certain one-time items set aside, of $0.94. Both cleared what analysts expected. Management then raised its own map twice over, to about $12B of revenue this fiscal year from about $11.5B, and to about $18B next year from about $16.5B. The stock is down 8.4% anyway, and the reason is the price it was already carrying. Marvell has climbed roughly 28% in a month and sits 260% above the $61.44 it traded at last September 4. A beat of about 1% does not pay for a run like that. Here is why it matters more than PayPal to the board above. Marvell is worth about $211.5B, four times PayPal's size, so an 8.4% fall is roughly $17.7B - more than twice the money that came off PayPal - and Marvell sits on that same short Nasdaq-100 list. Two names, one index, and the technology-heavy contract being the reddest thing on the screen stops being a mystery. EUROPE IS GREEN AND NONE OF IT IS CROSSING - CAC 40 (France): 8,401, +81.03 pts / +0.97%. - DAX (Germany): 26,495, +127.46 pts / +0.48%. - FTSE 100 (UK): 10,810, +17.00 pts / +0.16%. Paris is leading the continent on a morning its own inflation reading got hotter. INSEE, France's national statistics agency, put its first estimate of August consumer prices at 2.7% above a year earlier on the harmonised measure - the version built so euro-area countries can be compared like for like - up from 2.4% in July, with energy prices running 16.7% above a year ago. Separately, Fitch Ratings, one of the three big agencies that grade how likely a government is to repay what it borrows, reviews France today; it cut that grade from AA- to A+ on September 13, 2025. A market up nearly a percent into both of those is not one braced for either. Europe still has three and a half hours of its own session left to change its mind. THE EMPTY 8:30 AND THE CROWDED 10:00 Most mornings a government data release lands at 8:30am ET and futures reprice on it in the hour before the bell. Today that slot is empty. Nothing scheduled arrives between now and the open, which is a large part of why those four contracts have barely moved since dawn. Then 10:00am ET, half an hour after the bell, two things land together. - The University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers publishes its final August reading - a monthly survey asking American households how they feel about their own money and the wider economy, scored as an index. The preliminary reading was 51.0 against about 54.5 expected, -7.6% from July, with households penciling in 4.3% price rises over the coming year. - Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh gives his first keynote as chair at the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He speaks two days after the Bureau of Economic Analysis put the personal consumption expenditures price index for July - the inflation gauge the Fed watches most closely, because it follows what people actually buy - at 3.7% above a year earlier, unchanged from June and hotter than the 3.6% economists expected. New York is coming off a strong Thursday, which is worth holding beside all of the above: the S&P 500 closed at 7,730.99, +55.29 pts / +0.72%, and the Nasdaq-100 at 29,641.56, +417.04 pts / +1.43%. Hold every overnight figure loosely, though. Pre-dawn trading is thin, so a move made by few participants gets undone by few, and nothing printed before sunrise owes anybody a promise it survives to 9:30am. Two dates ahead of that: Monday is month-end, when funds adjust holdings into the close and prices can move on housekeeping rather than news, and next Friday, September 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the August jobs report at 8:30am ET. That slot will not be empty. WHERE THESE TWO SIT PayPal is 40th of 46 on the Quality-Value Len5, the style that wants a durable business at a fair price. The fair-price half is loud this morning: at $51.86 the shares cost about 9.9 times the last year of profit, and the company keeps buying back its own stock, which quietly raises every remaining owner's slice. The durable half is the open question, and it has nothing to do with the deal. It comes from the July 28 report, where the total spent through PayPal's systems rose 10% while transaction margin dollars - the money PayPal keeps from each payment after the cost of moving it - rose 1%. Volume growing ten times faster than the money kept is the thing to watch; that gap closing settles the read, and another year of it widening breaks it. PayPal is on none of the other five. Deep-Value and Special-Situations hunts the genuinely cheap or a business carrying a dated event - there was an event, and this morning it evaporated, which is exactly why an unsigned offer is not something to lean on; a signed agreement with a closing date would change that. Momentum watches names already breaking out on news of their own, and a 15.6% fall on a stock 34.5% under the $79.215 it reached last October 28 is the opposite shape. Both growth styles want expansion you are not overpaying for, and mid-single-digit revenue growth with profit per share going backwards is not expansion. Income watches cash genuinely reaching owners, and what leaves here goes out through buybacks rather than a payout worth a real share of the price - a dividend that mattered against the share price is the change. Marvell is on none of the six. Both value styles want a fair price standing beside a durable business, and at about 84 times the last year of profit the price half is missing; a real markdown with data-center demand still growing would bring either into range. Both growth styles want expansion you are not overpaying for - the expansion is genuine at 37%, and the price is again the half that fails. Momentum watches names already breaking out on a live event of their own, and a company that posts a record quarter, raises two years of guidance and falls 8.4% anyway is the exact opposite shape; clearing the $329.88 it reached on June 18 on heavy volume would be the change. Income is settled on size, at $0.06 a quarter against a $221 share. Thursday's closing price of $61.47 was a bet that somebody would eventually pay more than the $60.50 a share on the table. This morning there is no offer, no statement from any of the three companies, and a stock 15.6% lower than it was at the bell. At 10:00am the newest Fed chair gives his first keynote at a symposium whose subject this year is what payments become next - and one of the country's largest payment companies will spend that hour finding out what it is worth standing on its own. Not investment advice.

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  CaptTriage (@CaptTriage) reported 5 minutes ago

  OK, hear me out. The next directional Moderna esque arbitrage play will be Musk throwing down the gauntlet and putting in an offer for PayPal. Chances are this won’t happen but wouldn’t that be something. $PYPL $MRNA

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  Finance Spot (@financespotnews) reported 7 minutes 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.

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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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  jordan johnson (@jordanj556) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak PayPal, is a gang of thieves. If you haven't accidently broken some policy to them yet, you'll be asking how something is your fault when it is used to steal from you.

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  Ontario Frugal | Faith & Strategy (@OntarioFrugal) reported 17 minutes ago

  @losinghopein @PayPal @AskPayPal I had a crazy problem a bit like this when I tested the Bree app.They weren't supposed to take their payment until my pension came in - the crazy app took it 2 weeks early!

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  Expose the Diddycrats (@Diddycrats_suck) reported 21 minutes ago

  Just canceled my @PAYPAL acct. Cust SVC is ALL AI, terrible CO that WON"T help u. BEWARE!

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  Cadbury Capital Investments (@cadburycapital) reported 22 minutes ago

  What happened today? (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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  Jonas Gruber (@jonasgruber_) reported 22 minutes ago

  52 followers 7 days ago. 1,100+ today. Wild. Thanks to every single one of you. let me quickly introduce myself: In 2019 I was bored out of my mind at university. Took me about one semester to realize the degree I was working towards would never get me where I actually wanted to be. Then YouTube recommended me a video: "How to make money with dropshipping" Boom. That was the opportunity I was looking for (I thought). So I went all in. Grinding day and night. 30k first month, tripled that the month after. I thought I cracked the code. Until > PayPal cases started rolling in lol. > Refunds left and right. > Problems with the supplier as well. Turns out I sucked at running the store. But heres the thing: While I was bad at every part of that business, there was one part I was actually good at. The ad account. Reading the data and making decisions other people didn't see were an option. So I asked around in my network whether I could run ads for them. Took some time but one guy finally said yes (forever thankful for you if you read this). And guess what: IT WORKED! Certainly not at today's level, but more than enough to establish a profitable marketing channel for him. In fact: He was so happy, he recommended me to another guy and one thing led to another. FAST FORWARD TO TODAY: I run a multi 7-figure full funnel Google Ads agency. We scale brands like Sodastream, Riedel and Music Store, plenty of stores starting from scratch on Google and everything in between. And after a few hundred accounts, the same pattern keeps showing up: ALMOST NOBODY IS LOSING MONEY BC THEIR ADS ARE BAD. But bc they're not doing the basics right at scale. After spending €50mio+ on Google I thought, "why not share all the lessons and insights about how to scale tf out of people's Google Ads." I share every single detail and not gate keep anything. Before, I thought this stuff was way too niche for X. But based on the DMs I've received, apparently not. So welcome on my X account brother. Follow along for more ecom nerd stuff that makes you more money. 🫶🏼

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  Studio Jimmy (@heystudiojimmy) reported 24 minutes ago

  One of the best moments of building @usefelar so far. A producer just signed up and messaged me: “I had to leave BeatStars because of the PayPal issue.” This is exactly why I’m building FELAR. Producers shouldn’t have to give up selling their music because they can’t access a payment method. We’re fixing that. 🧡

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  cla6 (@the6isloose) reported 24 minutes ago

  if i took commissions specifically for robuxs would anyone be interested (cant take normal ones because my paypal is down and im done trying to make it work)

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  Julian▪️Design Studio (@julian_kalume) reported 32 minutes ago

  I have tried many men. YouTube Channel 2018-2021: - I was broke, couldn't afford a camera. - Failed, but wanted to make money. Ecommerce 2020-2021: - Joined masterclasses (if anybody knows Yomi Denzel, the French entrepreneur). - Failed; I was broke, PayPal couldn't work in my country (being African is a nightmare). Affiliate Marketing 2021-2022: - Got scammed and lost money. - Failed and went back to study my final high school year. Online Scams 2022: - Joined an online app that promised to pay back your investment. - Lost school fees and my own money. Job as Assistant Driver 2022: - Applied and got accepted for an interview. - Couldn't get hired as I was under 18. - Failed. Thumbnail Design 2023: - Got 6 clients, worked on dozens of thumbnails. - But I couldn't keep going since there was no payment method I could use. - Made my first online money - Failed, but made around $300 online. Video Editing 2023-2025: - Worked with a couple of YouTubers. - Sent outreach in 2024 to over 400 creators and only 6 replied, worked with 4 of them - Generated over 50 million views on YouTube. - Learned a lot about online business. - Made approximately $4,000 over two years (I was so cheap, lol). Web Design 2025–Present: - We're still going. - Earned over $15K in client work and over $10K in Framer business. - More creative. All of this is because of one reason: I wanted to afford a camera and become a YouTuber. Hopefully, this coming year I will. Coming from a broke and poor background that most will never experience, but my drives are live. And yet, people still look at me and say I’m rushing life, I should slow down. lol

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  CaptTriage (@CaptTriage) reported 34 minutes ago

  OK, hear me out. The next directional Moderna esque arbitrage play will be Musk throwing down the gauntlet and putting in an offer for PayPal. Chances are this won’t happen but wouldn’t that be something.

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  King Poot-Poot (@KingPootPoot) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Paypal is reliable in the way they will ignore you for weeks, spike your cortisol for a few days, then actually fix your problem perfectly

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  Tim's Wealth Letter (@timswealth) reported 35 minutes ago

  In our portfolio, PayPal fell 12.7% on Friday to $53.66 after Advent and Stripe walked away. The board had rejected their $60.50 a share as too low. The shares are now 11.3% below the offer it turned down. Generac fell 6.8%.