URGENT: $PYPL se shares tumble 12% after Stripe and Advent abandon their $50 billion acquisition attempt.
The consortium had offered more than $50 billion for PayPal, a deal that would have ranked among the biggest leveraged acquisitions in history.
It is reported that PayPal rejected the initial offer as insufficient, betting that Stripe and Advent would return with a higher bid, but they did not.
URGENT: Chevron $CVX y other U.S. energy companies are close to an agreement to invest billions in Venezuela's oil fields
Chevron already operates three joint ventures with Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA and is close to adding two more heavy crude fields to its portfolio
Halliburton $HAL.US is also in talks, showing that the deal goes beyond crude ownership to include drilling work and infrastructure needed to restart production
The plan would lease specific fields to U.S. companies and send the oil they produce back to the U.S. market
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, bigger than those of Saudi Arabia, but years of underinvestment have left much of them undeveloped
Any production gains here would take years, since the old wells, pipelines, and export systems all need to be rebuilt first
URGENT: The S&P 500 turns negative during the day after the Fed president, Kevin Warsh, says inflation is not slowing and suggests tightening policy to bring it back to the 2% target
BREAKING NEWS: Ripple Prime launches Delta One, enabling institutional clients to trade Total Return Swaps on U.S. equities, indices, and digital assets through a single counterparty with over $1B in regulatory capital, 24/7.
$CRM subiendo +11% in premarket after reporting revenue of about 11.3B, up 11%, and raising its full-year outlook to nearly 46B.
The most important figure were outstanding performance obligations, which rose 14% to about 33.5B and beat expectations, easing fears that AI would erode its core business.
Management also leaned on the momentum of Agentforce, its AI agent product, and on an expanded partnership with Anthropic: ClaoudForce.
The movement of BTC toward $80K seems more credible than just another low-liquidity pump. What really matters is market depth.
Bitcoin rose nearly 25% last week while liquidity in the order book stayed solid. That matters because it means the move wasn’t just a few large orders moving the price. There was real demand underneath. ETF inflows and the Treasury buyback obviously helped.
The price went up and liquidity stayed there. Now we’ll see if BTC can hold the higher range. $80K was the easy part. Keeping it is what matters. $BTC