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JUST IN: SpaceX $SPCX Starship Flight 15 booster has diverted to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after its tower catch was aborted, while Ship 42 continued to orbit.
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• Liftoff was at 4:45 PM Central from Starbase, Texas, the first V3 Super Heavy catch attempt • One booster engine failed to relight during the boostback burn • Ship 42 is set to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites in orbit • The first ever ship catch attempt is planned for Saturday afternoon Central
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JUST IN: Preliminary reports indicate the FAA nationwide ground stop was not caused by a cyberattack, according to two law enforcement officials, CNN reports.
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• The assessment is preliminary and could change, per CNN reporting • FBI personnel across the country are continuing to monitor the situation • No federal official has ruled out a cyberattack on the record yet • The FAA still has not said when flights will resume
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JUST IN: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the FAA nationwide ground stop followed a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers, and FAA technicians are investigating the issue.
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• Cause is now officially a communication issue at the centers that manage flights across US airspace • No lifting has been announced; departing traffic is still told to remain grounded until further notice • FAA advisory still lists an estimated end of 10:00 PM Central
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JUST IN: The FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop for all US airports, halting all departures until further notice, citing extraordinary circumstances and safety reasons.
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• Ground stop took effect at 2:54 PM Central on Friday • FAA advisory lists the stop scheduled until 10:00 PM Central, with departing traffic told to remain grounded until further notice • Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis • The FAA has not given a detailed cause; controllers and flight trackers report communication and equipment outage issues
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$AMD fell 8.8% to $534.06 today as the chip selloff deepened, with semiconductors leading the market lower as fresh Nvidia concerns after Jensen Huang's resignation weighed on the AI chip group, $AVGO also down 4.8% and $NVDA down 2.0%.
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JUST IN: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet, letting its dots AI agents buy things for users with Visa $V, Mastercard $MA and American Express $AXP cards.
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• Starts with US ChatGPT Pro subscribers, 18 and over, with eligible US issued cards • Every purchase needs user approval with Face ID or a fingerprint, and agents pay with a token, never the real card number • OpenAI is taking no cut of transactions at launch, per CNBC
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UPDATE: The Microsoft $MSFT 365 outage is still not fully resolved, more than 15 hours in. Microsoft says Teams is restored and email delivery is improving as the backlog clears, but the incident remains open and some users are still seeing intermittent problems.
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• Teams: restored, per Microsoft • Email: delivery improving, backlog still clearing • Status: still listed as service degradation this morning, not declared resolved • Microsoft: no sign of a cyberattack, root cause still to come
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JUST IN: US producer prices rose 0.3% in October, less than the 0.4% expected, while the yearly rate climbed to 6.5%, the highest since November 2022.
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• Headline PPI: +0.3% month over month, vs +0.4% expected • Headline PPI: +6.5% year over year, vs +6.6% expected, up from +6.3% in September • Core PPI: +0.3% month over month, in line with expectations • Core PPI: +5.0% year over year, in line with expectations • September revised up: headline +1.4% month over month, core +0.8%
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Good morning. Crypto wakes up deep in the red, with Bitcoin back below $70,000, while gold steadies after Thursday's drop. Gold: $3,897, +0.4% overnight 🔴 $BTC -3.1% 🔴 $ETH -3.0% 🔴 $BNB -2.5% 🔴 $XRP -2.0% 🔴 $SOL -1.2% 🔴 $TRX -0.9% 🟢 $HYPE +1.0%
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• Drivers: traders priced in a Fed rate hike next month, the dollar rose above 103 to its highest since April 2025, and Nvidia fell after Jensen Huang's resignation, per CoinDesk • Liquidations: $1.64 billion in 24 hours, per CoinGlass via CoinDesk, with longs at 88.7%, including $916 million in $BTC and $289 million in $ETH • Prices now: $BTC $69,246, $ETH $1,959, $BNB $640, $XRP $1.02, $SOL $80.73, $TRX $0.313, $HYPE $73.40 • Binance hack: the DOJ says more than $2.7 billion is frozen in total, including more than $1.2 billion seized or restrained from the Binance theft, and Binance says hack losses are fully covered • Ahead today: US October producer prices at 8:30 AM ET, expected up 0.4% on the month, with the Fed meeting on December 8 and 9
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Small caps watch list for this morning, on the move in pre-market with high volume: 🟢 $RAIN +91.28%, $0.91, 24.1M shares pre-market 🟢 $MRLN +49.32%, $1.44, 4.5M shares pre-market 🟢 $SHFS +35.56%, $0.03, 321.7M shares pre-market 🟢 $CRMN +29.37%, $1.08, 18.9M shares pre-market 🟢 $SNAL +20.61%, $2.75, 1.6M shares pre-market
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💤 A dormant address containing 50 $BTC (3,442,129 USD) has just been activated after 16.2 years (worth 3 USD in 2010)! whale-alert.io/tx/bitcoin/8e…
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BREAKING: Bitcoin $BTC breaks below $70,000, sliding to about $69,400 as the selloff deepens, down about 5.9% on the day.
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• Bitcoin lost the $70,000 level after sellers pushed through $72,000 and $73,000 earlier today • U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have now seen five straight days of outflows, about $1.44B in total, led by BlackRock's $IBIT • More than $720M in leveraged crypto positions have been liquidated in 24 hours, most of them longs • Bitcoin is now below its 200-day moving average near $73,200, and traders are watching $68,000 as the next level down
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