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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 11 seconds 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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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 34 seconds ago

  @ifwewerenothing they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  bottomsniper (@ddw88523) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Neogun5 @Ibarragan19 I thought the same about PayPal. Then it went down more from 60 to 38

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  The stock broker investor (@teechongyen) reported 7 minutes ago

  @bols_daniel For PayPal to work as an investment, u only need these people who are slow to change to keep using PayPal/venmo for 8 more years. 8 years of constant FCF, PayPal is free.

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 13 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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  Ryan Clandening (@Ryan_AZRealtor) reported 18 minutes ago

  @AdamoMancino Sure, there’s companies that could buy PayPal. The problem is the incompetence of leadership. Management would rather fund a DEI department rather than actually improve margins. Management is all in on AI, yet payroll is at record levels with margins/sales collapsing. G&A expenses are forecasted at 3% growth, slightly below sales growth.

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  Kigonyi Wa Nduthi 🏍 (@rex_maina) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care why did you remove talking to an agent on Call 100? How do we handle issues that aren't highlighted on the main menu? Like PayPal payments?

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  Uthman Abdulmugni (@crimsonmarketer) reported 23 minutes ago

  @alexlay88 That 9% is an easy fix most stores skip, Shop Pay, PayPal, and a BNPL option covers nearly every preference bucket. The harder chunk to solve is the abandonment that isn't payment related at all, unexpected costs revealed at the final step. Both are checkout problems, but only one gets fixed by adding a button.

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  Nana Poku (@asaberekwame) reported 26 minutes ago

  @KobinaMensahUTD @ike_milan I am serious oo, didn't know 35gb wouldn't be able to last me 3weeks and I spend my money finish Would have done the unlimited if I knew Unless you and @ike_milan send me £3/5 each on PayPal so I can top up oo na i am stuck in Cornwall with a break down

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  Upsideonly (@OwnYourAttntion) reported 27 minutes ago

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

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  Moodtrack Diary (@MoodtrackDiary) reported 27 minutes ago

  @drewwash @braintree @PayPal Same thing happened to us. Double and triple charges for transactions that were processed for subscription renewal through Braintree on Aug 27th. I have been in touch with support. They acknowledged the issue, and responded that the investigation and recovery planning is going.

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  Stephen Urbanik (@UrbanikStephen) reported 28 minutes ago

  @BestBallJunkie @Underdog Well a free PayPal debit card would solve the problem here

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  Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) reported 28 minutes ago

  Advent and Stripe just walked away from a $50B takeover of PayPal. The board called the offer inadequate. The stock fell 13% anyway. Takeover hope was the floor under this stock. Pull it out and PayPal trades on what it actually is: a payments giant losing share and searching for growth. No buyer means fix it yourself. $PYPL

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  Nandkishor (@devops_nk) reported 29 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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  Ryan Hutton (@ryanhutton_96) reported 29 minutes ago

  I had exactly the same issue and reported paypal to the police who just laughed. I had someone send me money then they asked for a refund. I refused as they had not met refund requirements and paypal took their side, locked my account and billed me for the full amount…