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PayPal doubled down on its turnaround plan on Tuesday, raising its 2026 profit forecast and outlining cost-saving steps, as it looks to convince investors that it is worth more than the $53 billion takeover offer ‌that analysts described as "low-ball". The payments company, once the crown jewel of American financial technology, received a $60.50-per-share bid from Stripe ‌and private equity firm Advent International, Reuters reported earlier this month, citing sources. The offer is a fraction of the roughly $360 billion valuation PayPal commanded as a pandemic-era ​darling in 2021.

PayPal stock cratered earlier this year. Now, the fintech seeks to prove that its ‘strategic reorganization’ is yielding results.

In January, a headhunter from search firm Spencer Stuart started calling restaurant industry executives with a proposition: Would you come to Cracker Barrel as the next CEO? Cracker Barrel’s decision to select a 69-year-old former restaurant executive to lead the chain highlights the emerging practice of boards calling in retired chief executives from the sidelines to help engineer high-profile turnarounds. In recent years, Boeing Verizon Communications and others have all chosen once-retired CEOs.

Retail sentiment remains ‘bearish’ on SPY and deteriorated to ‘extremely bearish’ on QQQ, amid growing anxiety around technology stocks.

Concerns about the AI boom's sustainability offset the market impact of falling oil prices and earnings optimism.

Today Earnings (a.m.): Coca-Cola, UPS, Boeing, Sherwin-Williams, Hilton, Centene, PayPal, S&P Global Earnings (p.m.): Visa, Ford Motor, Mondelez International, Waste Management, PPG Industries, Bloom Energy, Avis Budget, Seagate Technology Economic data: Consumer confidence index, Johnson Redbook retail sales index, U.

Earnings season kicks into high gear this week.

Earnings season kicks into high gear this week.

Digital payments platform PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday morning. Here’s what to look for.

PYPL heads into Q2 earnings with TPV growth and platform expansion in focus but faces margin pressure, competition and macroeconomic uncertainty.

Fintech giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International are weighing their next move after PayPal rejected their $53-billion buyout offer, even as Stripe pursues a potential $10-billion acquisition of AI marketplace OpenRouter.

Wall Street expects PayPal to post a single-digit year-over-year decline in EPS when it reports its second-quarter results next month.

Five years ago PayPal was a Wall Street favorite and a leader in digital payments. Since then the stock has plunged, Apple Pay dominates payment services in the U.S. and PayPal is facing a takeover bid it does not like. The company synonymous with digital payments this past week got a $53 billion ‌offer to be taken private by upstart rival Stripe and buyout shop Advent International.

Enrique Lores had an ambitious turnaround plan for the payments company. Now, one of its rivals has lobbed a buyout offer.

Investing.com -- Stripe could gain consumer reach, merchant-processing scale and a stronger stablecoin position by acquiring PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL), though analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, Bernstein and Mizuho questioned whether the reported $60.50-per-share offer would secure a deal.

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Netflix shares are trading down more than 10% premarket after the company issued a third-quarter revenue forecast that raised concerns about its growth. The decline took off in earnest last year when Netflix was exploring a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming service. Netflix joins a list of other companies—including PayPal—whose stock soared during the pandemic and the following years, only to stumble as investors' attention turned to other areas of the market.

PayPal’s board sees a $53 billion takeover bid by rival Stripe and private equity firm Advent International as undervaluing the company and facing regulatory and financing hurdles, a person familiar with the matter ‌said, potentially setting the stage for negotiations over the future of the U.S. payments giant. PayPal has not formally responded to the proposal, two other ‌sources said. The consortium's bid comes as PayPal, founded in the late 1990s, has struggled in recent years to compete against rivals like Apple Pay and Google Pay, with management trying to revive its flagging ​share price in the face of slowing growth.

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The merger would create one of the world's largest global online payments company, processing $3.7 trillion a year.

June’s Producer Price Index (PPI) declined 0.3% from the previous month, marking its steepest drop in more than a year.

Cooler-than-expected producer prices contributed to hopes for easing inflation on Wednesday.

Wholesale inflation data cooled while major earnings season kicked off positively, lifting stocks across the board, today, July 15, 2026.

(Updates with market moves at the end of the day.) US equities rose Wednesday, driving major inde

FINANCE U.S. stocks edged higher Wednesday as gains in megacap technology names offset weakness in chip stocks. PayPal surged on reports of a takeover offer and another round of strong bank earnings kept Wall Street in an upbeat mood.

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Find insight on Stripe’s offer to buy PayPal, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and more in the latest Market Talks covering financial services.

All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Wednesday, as technology stocks led

July 15 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Wednesday, as investors weighed softer-than-expected producer inflation data and a flurry of corporate earnings, while PayPal surged on