Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

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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%)

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Châteauroux	Website Down	16 hours 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

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  Boston Avionics (@bostonavionics) reported 2 minutes ago

  PayPal is down more than 10% after Stripe and Advent reportedly “dropped their pursuit” of a potential acquisition.

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  thereal_rok (@thereal_rok) reported 5 minutes ago

  $PYPL: $53 billion acquisition talks collapse The immediate cause of today’s sharp drop in PayPal shares is reports that a consortium comprising Advent International and Stripe has abandoned plans to acquire the company. Previous offer: $60.50 per share; total valuation: approximately $53 billion. Latest development: The buyers have withdrawn from negotiations. $PYPL shares fell by roughly 15%–16% in pre-market trading and were down about 12%–14% during the trading session. 📈 Driven by acquisition speculation, $PYPL had previously risen over 40% this quarter; consequently, the news triggered a significant sell-off as market expectations failed to materialize.

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  QuantScraper (@QuantScraper) reported 8 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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  excel_saga (@Lord_Ilpalazzo) reported 13 minutes ago

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

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  Shubham Mali (@hackwithshubham) reported 17 minutes ago

  Received my first bug bounty reward as a security researcher, but PayPal has now placed a permanent limitation on my account. I’ve already completed KYC and submitted all the requested documents. @PayPal @AskPayPal Please look into this and help resolve the issue.

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  MojoTrick (@MojoTricks) reported 19 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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  dat bgtea - Spite 3 book in production~ (@iambgtea) reported 21 minutes ago

  Now that I'm thinking about it, are there other stories of mine that you want to see in book format? Probably won't print NC-17 stuff just to be on the safer side, given how the censorship hammer is coming down hard re PayPal. But lemme know!

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  Theodore (@Theodore_stock) reported 21 minutes ago

  $PYPL down 12%+ after the Stripe/Advent takeover story fell apart. Personally, I think this makes the setup MORE interesting. No acquisition premium. No easy catalyst. Now PayPal has to prove the business is worth more on its own. 👀 That’s the story I’m watching.

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  guy that likes starlo 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🇵🇸 (@cheesemuffin69) reported 22 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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  taytheexplorer (@gronxbronk) reported 25 minutes ago

  @MadeSLoppy @Adiofreak @PayPal ******* retard doing the right thing isn't starting a problem *******

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  Alan Gałecki – Financial-Engineering.net (@Fin_Eng_Net) reported 26 minutes ago

  @BigMacAttack41 I used them with my business account for my blog. First in parallel to stripe. stripe works smoothly. with PayPal, I had issues, until it was so annoying that I ditched them.

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  Tratte Buzun 👻 (@Faheem_xxii) reported 27 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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  Bill (@Billisthebooqy) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MattZylbert Zylbert my bank cards not working and the only way to add money is PayPal help a brother out

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  ArtRed Venus (@ArtredV) reported 29 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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  XDCypher22 (@Mr_Blockchain22) reported 31 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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  chase universe • COMMS OPENED (@nessfreenote) reported 31 minutes ago

  @briarsuniverse boosting and hoping you’d get the help you need! if you need to boost c0mms then please do so. don’t feel ashamed for asking help in financial issues. id be happy to help out but i sadly only have a paypal im so sorry :( be safe friend 💙

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  The Market Detective (@MarketDetectiv) reported 34 minutes ago

  Strip out the deal speculation and PayPal was already down 27% YTD, 45.3% below its 52-week high of $79.50. New CEO Enrique Lores (ex-HP) is mid-restructuring: a planned 20% workforce cut, targeting $1.5B in cost savings over 2-3 years.

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 35 minutes ago

  @zqyso @yElff_ For the 1030482nd time, it's to directly deposit into betting accounts thru Venmo/PayPal since bank gives issues for whatever reason

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  M Heilner (@mjh2008) reported 35 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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  cla6 (@the6isloose) reported 37 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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  @Steelers Nasty (@SteelersNasty) reported 40 minutes ago

  Made a pretty large deposit into @VENMO 5 days ago. Still waiting for access even though it cleared my bank 2 days ago. This is the answer I received when I asked what the issue was. Now how many millions do they have ******* in this alleged issue? @USTreasury #VENMO @PAYPAL #PAYPAL #FANDUEL

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  simple (@ZhengNanyu) reported 41 minutes ago

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

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  Upsideonly (@OwnYourAttntion) reported 42 minutes ago

  @TheLongInvest The problem with PayPal is that it is a s*** company.

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  MUGOBA RUI (@Xx0MUGOBAxXRUI) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Brx98847 There was PayPal but it got taken down by PayPal itself.

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  Nandkishor (@devops_nk) reported 44 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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  Deeman trades (@deemancpa) reported 44 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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  The Apex Wire (@ApexWireApp) reported 48 minutes ago

  @BullTheoryio PayPal took the deal-break hit after Stripe and Advent walked. Same sector, Klarna's CEO bought 692,506 shares on the open market at $14.37, a $9,949,164 filing. One is a broken bid. The other is a disclosed purchase. Plan status is not in the file.

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 49 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  Cadbury Capital Investments (@cadburycapital) reported 52 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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  John Davis (@JohnDav42688049) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak They are gigantic phaggots. I remember selling my WoW account long ago when I was 13. Made 200 bucks, next day it charged back because it was apparently a ‘stolen’ paypal account. Why is it my ******* problem some retarded boomer gave his account details away to a 75 iq pajeet.