Company Performance - Home Depot shares fell 4% after the company reported disappointing third-quarter earnings and cut its full-year profit outlook [1] - Cloudflare shares declined 3% due to an outage affecting several prominent customers, including social media site X and ChatGPT [2] - Medtronic shares rose 4% after reporting better-than-expected fiscal 2026 second-quarter results and lifting its full-year outlook [4] - Merck stock advanced 4% following positive results from a Phase 2 trial of a heart drug [4] Market Trends - Major U.S. equities indexes, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq, were down about 1%, with the S&P 500 falling 0.6% amid concerns about an AI bubble [1] - Oil and gold futures slipped, while the yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged lower [5] - Prices for most major cryptocurrencies were higher, with Strategy (MSTR) rebounding roughly 6% along with the price of Bitcoin [4]

Cloudflare Global Network has been experiencing a severe outage, which has affected popular crypto platforms such as BitMEX, DeFiLlama, etc. On Nov. 18, Cloudflare said it is experiencing an internal service degradation which has impacted some services. It is working to restore services, the web security firm added. Related: Smartest man alive reveals new Bitcoin target The BitMEX crypto trading platform also got caught in the storm and suffered disruption. DeFiLlama, the on-chain analytics platform, and ...

ChatGPT, social-media platform X and NJ Transit were among the websites blocking some users’ access on Tuesday as the web security firm Cloudflare Inc. worked to address a widespread, worldwide networking outage.Cloudflare was investigating an issue that “potentially impacts multiple customers,” the San Francisco-based company said on its website. The same page shows Cloudflare had been experiencing issues with a customer support portal, and had been scheduled to conduct some scheduled maintenance in some ...