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Is Shopify Down Today? Cyber Monday Outage, Cloudflare Chaos and What It Means for E‑Commerce (December 5, 2025)

Is Shopify Down Today? Cyber Monday Outage, Cloudflare Chaos and What It Means for E‑Commerce (December 5, 2025)

Published: December 5, 2025 As of this morning, Shopify’s own systems are largely operational again after a bruising week that exposed just how dependent online retail has become on a handful of platforms and infrastructure providers. On Cyber Monday, December 1, a login meltdown inside Shopify locked thousands of merchants out of their backends for hours during one of the most important shopping days of the year.Reuters+1 Four days later, on December 5, a separate global outage at infrastructure giant Cloudflare triggered 500‑error messages across huge chunks of the internet, briefly disrupting access to Shopify and many other sites once
5 December 2025
Q/C Technologies (QCLS) Stock: Shkreli-Fueled Quantum-Class Rally, Latest News and Forecasts as of December 5, 2025

Q/C Technologies (QCLS) Stock: Shkreli-Fueled Quantum-Class Rally, Latest News and Forecasts as of December 5, 2025

Q/C Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCLS) has suddenly gone from obscure microcap to social‑media star. Over just two trading sessions, the stock has effectively doubled after former pharma executive Martin Shkreli disclosed a position, floated a near‑term $100 price target, and hinted at wanting to run the company if regulators ever let him back into a C‑suite. Benzinga+2Stocktwits+2 Underneath the drama is a tiny company that recently pivoted from biotech into “quantum‑class” photonic computing and blockchain infrastructure, built around licensed light‑based processors from Israeli startup LightSolver. Streamlined+3Business Wire+3Business Wire+3 This article pulls together the latest news, price action, forecasts and analyses
5 December 2025
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Coinbase’s Big Bank Crypto Pilots Mark a New Phase in Wall Street’s Digital Asset Push

Coinbase’s Big Bank Crypto Pilots Mark a New Phase in Wall Street’s Digital Asset Push

As of December 5, 2025, Coinbase’s newly revealed partnerships with some of America’s largest banks have become one of the clearest signals yet that traditional finance is preparing to run on crypto rails. At The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on December 3, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that “some of the largest banks” in the U.S. are now running pilot programs with the exchange focused on stablecoins, crypto custody and trading.Bloomberg Law News+1 Follow‑up reporting from crypto and fintech outlets indicates that JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup are among the institutions involved, building on earlier announced ties
5 December 2025
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TfL’s Moorgate Takeover Bid: Full List of Great Northern Stations That Could Join London Overground by 2027

TfL’s Moorgate Takeover Bid: Full List of Great Northern Stations That Could Join London Overground by 2027

As of 5 December 2025, Transport for London’s (TfL) bid to take over the Great Northern “inners” route from Moorgate has moved from long‑running aspiration to a concrete proposal – complete with an outline business case, newly released FOI documents and a clear list of stations that could end up with London Overground‑style services by the end of 2027. ianVisits+1 If approved, the plans would reshape rail travel from the City of London into north London and Hertfordshire, tie directly into a proposed 21,000‑home “new town” at Crews Hill, and slot into the wider national shift to public ownership and
5 December 2025
‘China’s Nvidia’ Moore Threads Soars Over 400% in Shanghai Debut After $1.1 Billion IPO, Supercharging Beijing’s AI Chip Ambitions

‘China’s Nvidia’ Moore Threads Soars Over 400% in Shanghai Debut After $1.1 Billion IPO, Supercharging Beijing’s AI Chip Ambitions

Shanghai / Beijing – December 5, 2025 – Chinese GPU designer Moore Threads made one of the most dramatic stock market debuts in recent memory on Friday, as its shares surged more than fourfold on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market after a roughly 8 billion yuan ($1.1–$1.13 billion) initial public offering.The Outpost+2Moneycontrol+2 The Beijing-based firm, frequently dubbed “China’s Nvidia”, opened around 650 yuan per share versus an IPO price of 114.28 yuan and traded near 600 yuan in early sessions – a gain of roughly 400–500% that at one point marked the biggest first‑day jump for a Chinese IPO
5 December 2025
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WA Property Finance in Focus: Pallas Capital’s Perth Expansion, CBA’s Ellie Everington and the 5% First Home Buyer Scheme Squeeze

WA Property Finance in Focus: Pallas Capital’s Perth Expansion, CBA’s Ellie Everington and the 5% First Home Buyer Scheme Squeeze

Published: 5 December 2025 Western Australia has suddenly moved to the centre of Australia’s housing and mortgage story. On the same day that non‑bank lender Pallas Capital confirmed a major push into Perth and Commonwealth Bank’s Ellie Everington stepped into the spotlight as WA state sales manager, policymakers and lenders are grappling with the fallout from the federal 5% First Home Buyer Deposit Scheme — including longer mortgage pre‑approval times and new tensions around broker access. Taken together, these developments show how policy, pricing and people are reshaping the way West Australians — and first‑home buyers nationally — access finance
5 December 2025
Cloudflare Down Again: December 5, 2025 Outage Triggers 500 Errors for Zoom, X, Canva, Banks and More

Cloudflare Down Again: December 5, 2025 Outage Triggers 500 Errors for Zoom, X, Canva, Banks and More

Cloudflare, one of the internet’s most important infrastructure providers, suffered another major outage on Friday, December 5, 2025, briefly knocking offline or slowing a huge range of websites and apps around the world. Users trying to reach services from social networks and AI tools to trading platforms and banks were met with “500 Internal Server Error” messages and stalled dashboards — just weeks after a similar global incident in November. BleepingComputer+2The Economic Times+2 The company says it has now implemented a fix and is monitoring systems, but the back‑to‑back outages are intensifying questions about how much of the modern web
5 December 2025
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Shopify Outage Update: Cyber Monday Login Failure and December 5 Cloudflare Impact

Shopify Outage Update: Cyber Monday Login Failure and December 5 Cloudflare Impact

December 5, 2025 For thousands of Shopify merchants, Cyber Monday 2025 was less about record-breaking orders and more about staring at a frozen login screen. Four days later, on December 5, Shopify is once again in the news as a separate Cloudflare outage briefly disrupts some stores and admin dashboards — even as the company insists its own systems are now fully operational. Red94+1 This is where things stand today, how we got here, and what it all means for merchants heading into the rest of the holiday season. Is Shopify down today? As of the morning of December 5,
5 December 2025
2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software: Workday, OneStream and Board Front an AI Arms Race in FP&A

2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software: Workday, OneStream and Board Front an AI Arms Race in FP&A

The financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software market just hit a major checkpoint. Gartner has published its 2025 Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, and within hours a wave of vendors — including Workday, OneStream and Board — announced fresh leadership positions, all leaning heavily into AI, agents and unified enterprise planning. PR Newswire+2PR Newswire+2 For CFOs and FP&A leaders, these announcements on and around December 4–5, 2025, are more than marketing. They provide a snapshot of who Gartner sees as shaping the next era of planning, forecasting and performance management across 14 evaluated vendors. Anaplan Inc What the 2025
5 December 2025
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AWS, Azure And Cloudflare Outages Expose A Growing Cloud Reliability Crisis — And Why DNS Resilience Is Now Center Stage

AWS, Azure And Cloudflare Outages Expose A Growing Cloud Reliability Crisis — And Why DNS Resilience Is Now Center Stage

As of December 5, 2025, the global internet is once again grappling with reliability questions after a fresh Cloudflare disruption on top of recent outages at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and other core infrastructure providers. At the same time, AWS is rolling out a new Route 53 “Accelerated Recovery” feature and partnering with Google Cloud on a multicloud link designed to make it easier to ride out future failures. Amazon Web Services, Inc.+2Reuters+2 This combination of repeated outages and rapid engineering responses is reshaping the debate about whether the cloud can still be treated as “always on” —
5 December 2025
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Salesforce Stock Pops as Q3 2026 Earnings, AI Deals and AstraZeneca Partnership Lift Guidance — But Investor AI Skepticism Lingers

Salesforce Stock Pops as Q3 2026 Earnings, AI Deals and AstraZeneca Partnership Lift Guidance — But Investor AI Skepticism Lingers

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has triggered a fresh wave of headlines after posting record third‑quarter fiscal 2026 results, raising its full‑year outlook and signing a high‑profile AI deal with AstraZeneca. Yet despite the post‑earnings stock pop and new enterprise wins, CEO Marc Benioff is still fighting to convince Wall Street that Salesforce’s aggressive artificial intelligence strategy will translate into lasting shareholder returns. Salesforce Investor Relations+2Reuters+2 Q3 2026 by the numbers: record revenue, fatter margins For its fiscal third quarter ended October 31, 2025, Salesforce reported: On the bottom line, Salesforce delivered adjusted EPS of $3.25, handily beating the roughly $2.86 Wall
5 December 2025
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Gold Price Today, December 5, 2025: Yellow Metal Firms on Weak Dollar as Fed Cut Bets Grow and Silver Nears Record High

Gold Price Today, December 5, 2025: Yellow Metal Firms on Weak Dollar as Fed Cut Bets Grow and Silver Nears Record High

Gold prices are edging higher on Friday, December 5, 2025, as a softer U.S. dollar offsets pressure from still-elevated bond yields and investors brace for a crucial U.S. inflation release that could set the tone for next week’s Federal Reserve meeting. Spot gold is trading a little above $4,220 per ounce, up roughly 0.5% intraday, while U.S. gold futures hover in the mid‑$4,250s, leaving the metal marginally higher for the week after a choppy few sessions. Reuters+1 At the same time, silver remains the standout story of 2025: prices are holding around $58 an ounce, just below this week’s fresh
5 December 2025
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New Fortress Energy (NFE) Stock: Puerto Rico Gas Deal Triggers Relief Rally Amid Going‑Concern Fears – December 5, 2025

New Fortress Energy (NFE) Stock: Puerto Rico Gas Deal Triggers Relief Rally Amid Going‑Concern Fears – December 5, 2025

As of December 5, 2025, New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) sits at the center of one of the most dramatic turnarounds‑or‑bust stories in the global LNG market. The stock has bounced on news of a long‑awaited gas supply deal with Puerto Rico, even as the company warns there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern and scrambles to restructure more than $7–9 billion of debt. Business Wire+2Stock Titan+2 For investors following NFE on Google News or Discover, the picture is a mix of powerful catalysts and very real solvency risk. Where New Fortress Energy
5 December 2025
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Mauritania Ramps Up Green Hydrogen and Solar: 12.5M‑Ton Target, 160 MW Solar Plant and Megaton Moon P2X Deal by 2035

Mauritania Ramps Up Green Hydrogen and Solar: 12.5M‑Ton Target, 160 MW Solar Plant and Megaton Moon P2X Deal by 2035

NOUAKCHOTT / DAKAR – December 5, 2025 – Mauritania has moved decisively to position itself as a green hydrogen and renewable energy powerhouse, with fresh announcements this week underscoring an ambitious goal to reach 12.5 million tonnes of green hydrogen output by 2035, backed by new utility‑scale solar, wind and Power‑to‑X (P2X) megaprojects. Energy Capital & Power+1 The latest wave of news centres on three pillars: These developments come as Mauritania secures over €39 million in concessional finance from France for ten solar power plants with storage and deepens its partnership with the European Union through the Global Gateway initiative.
5 December 2025
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Hang Seng Index Rises 0.9% This Week as Fed Cut Bets Clash With Crash Warnings

Hang Seng Index Rises 0.9% This Week as Fed Cut Bets Clash With Crash Warnings

HONG KONG – December 5, 2025 – Hong Kong’s stock market ended a volatile week on a positive note, with the Hang Seng Index (HSI) edging higher even as analysts warned that deepening property stress, weakening factory data and bearish technical signals leave the benchmark vulnerable to a sharp correction. Hang Seng Index ends choppy week higher Hong Kong stocks advanced on Friday, with the Hang Seng Index closing up 0.6% at 26,085.08, taking its gain for the week to 0.9%. The tech-heavy Hang Seng Tech Index added about 0.8%, while mainland benchmarks also firmed, with the CSI 300 and
5 December 2025
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EQ Bank to Buy PC Financial from Loblaw in $800 Million Deal – What It Means for EQB, Loblaw and PC Optimum Members

EQ Bank to Buy PC Financial from Loblaw in $800 Million Deal – What It Means for EQB, Loblaw and PC Optimum Members

TORONTO — December 5, 2025 EQB Inc., the parent of digital lender EQ Bank and Equitable Bank, has struck an approximately $800 million deal to acquire PC Financial from Loblaw Companies Limited, in a move that will reshape Canada’s retail banking and loyalty landscape and has already sent EQB’s stock sharply higher. EQB Investor Relations+2Global News+2 The transaction will see EQB become the exclusive financial partner of the PC Optimum loyalty program, while Loblaw walks away with a sizable minority stake in EQB and a significant capital release from its banking arm. EQB Investor Relations+2dmn.ca+2 Deal at a Glance: $800
5 December 2025
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USA Rare Earth (USAR) Stock Soars on New Supply Deals: Latest News, Forecast and Analysis as of December 5, 2025

USA Rare Earth (USAR) Stock Soars on New Supply Deals: Latest News, Forecast and Analysis as of December 5, 2025

USA Rare Earth, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAR) has roared back with a double‑digit jump after announcing new rare‑earth supply agreements and progress on its “mine‑to‑magnet” strategy. Here’s a deep dive into the latest news, forecasts and competing analyses investors are watching right now. USA Rare Earth (USAR) stock price today: volatile rebound As of December 5, 2025, USA Rare Earth, Inc. trades around $17.5 per share, up roughly 25% in the latest session, giving the company a market capitalization of about $2.3 billion. StockAnalysis Key trading stats from recent data providers: StockAnalysis The chart (which we’re describing, not showing) tells a
5 December 2025
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Rubrik Stock (RBRK) Jumps on Surprise Q3 Profit – Is the AI Security Darling Still a Buy?

Rubrik Stock (RBRK) Jumps on Surprise Q3 Profit – Is the AI Security Darling Still a Buy?

Rubrik, Inc. (NYSE: RBRK) has just delivered the kind of quarter that rewrites a stock’s story in a single trading session. After reporting a surprise profit and rapid revenue growth for its fiscal third quarter 2026 (three months ended October 31, 2025), shares spiked in after‑hours trading and remain sharply higher as of December 5, 2025. The stock is trading around $70–72 per share today, with a closing price of $70.43 on December 4 and a post‑earnings after‑hours spike that briefly pushed the price above $82. StockAnalysis That leaves Rubrik up more than 120% from its April 2024 IPO price
5 December 2025
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Meta Platforms (META) Stock Surges as Metaverse Spending Is Slashed and AI Strategy Accelerates

Meta Platforms (META) Stock Surges as Metaverse Spending Is Slashed and AI Strategy Accelerates

As of December 5, 2025 Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) is back in the spotlight after a sharp move higher in its share price driven by reports of deep cuts to its metaverse budget and a renewed focus on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and devices. The stock closed around $661.5 per share on Thursday, December 4, 2025, up roughly 3–4% on the day, and extending a rebound from its late-October selloff. StockAnalysis+1 Early indications on Friday show continued strength in pre-market and after-hours trading, reflecting investor approval of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest strategic pivot. META stock today: sharp rebound, still
5 December 2025
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SoFi Stock Slides After Second $1.5 Billion Share Sale in 2025 – What It Means for SOFI’s 2026 Outlook

SoFi Stock Slides After Second $1.5 Billion Share Sale in 2025 – What It Means for SOFI’s 2026 Outlook

Date: December 5, 2025 – Ticker: SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI) SoFi’s share price has been on a rocket ride since late 2022 — and management is now tapping that strength again. Late Thursday and into Friday, SoFi Technologies, Inc. announced and priced a new $1.5 billion public offering of common stock, its second $1.5 billion equity raise this year. The move sent SOFI lower in extended trading as investors grappled with fresh dilution, even as the fintech continues to report record revenue, rising profits, and a sharply upgraded 2025 outlook. Business Wire+2MarketWatch+2 Below is a deep dive into the
5 December 2025
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Stock Market Today

Oil stocks jump on Iran risk lift for crude — what to watch before Monday

Oil stocks jump on Iran risk lift for crude — what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026
U.S. oil stocks surged Friday as crude prices rose on renewed Middle East tensions. Exxon Mobil gained 2.0%, ConocoPhillips 2.5%, and Occidental Petroleum 2.7%. Refiners rallied after a national union deal eased strike risk, though BP’s Whiting plant faces a local dispute. Brent settled at $68.05 a barrel, up 0.74%.
Silver price rebound masks fresh stress after CME lifts margins again

Silver price rebound masks fresh stress after CME lifts margins again

7 February 2026
Spot silver surged 8.6% to $77.33 an ounce Friday after dropping below $65, but still lost over 8.7% for the week. CME Group raised margin requirements for COMEX silver futures to 18% from 15%, effective after Feb. 6. China’s UBS SDIC Silver Futures Fund hit its 10% down limit for a fifth session. Traders await key U.S. jobs and inflation data next week.
Gold price near $5,000: China keeps buying as CME margin hikes raise the stakes

Gold price near $5,000: China keeps buying as CME margin hikes raise the stakes

7 February 2026
China’s central bank raised gold reserves for a 15th month in January, reaching 74.19 million ounces worth $369.58 billion. Gold prices swung sharply, hitting a record near $5,600 before dropping to $4,403.24. CME Group hiked COMEX gold futures margins to 9% after recent volatility. U.S. jobs and inflation data are due next week after a delay.
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