Finance

Shares of PayPal Holdings tumbled more than 11% following reports that a major acquisition attempt has been called off. A consortium comprising Advent International and Stripe reportedly abandoned its proposed fifty-billion-dollar takeover bid for the financial technology firm.

Commodity prices registered pullbacks as tighter monetary policy expectations lifted the U.S. dollar and bond yields. Both Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude oil benchmarks dipped to lock in weekly losses, while spot gold declined from earlier near-record heights to trade around forty-five hundred dollars per ounce.

Bitcoin prices briefly breached the eighty-one thousand dollar milestone before surrendering overnight gains to steady near seventy-nine thousand dollars. The pullback coincided with the expiration of roughly six billion dollars worth of options contracts, driving brief fluctuations across the broader digital asset ecosystem.