Bumble is in advanced talks with Ithaca Holdings to take the dating app private in a deal worth about $1 billion, Reuters reported. Neither company has confirmed a deal, and both declined to comment. Bumble shares rose sharply after the news. The talks come as the company tries to win back users with artificial intelligence.

Unichain, Uniswap's Layer 2 network, is moving its production operations to Optimism's OP Enterprise stack, according to Uniswap. The testnet migrates on October 13, with the mainnet following on October 29. The chain ID, deployed contracts, user balances and application state stay unchanged, and the Uniswap v2, v3 and v4 deployments are unaffected. Once interoperability goes live, assets will move directly between Unichain and other OP Stack chains without a bridge, starting with ETH; direct user benefits await that rollout.

The market's most expensive stocks, measured by forward price-to-earnings ratios at the end of the second quarter, suffered unusually sharp valuation contraction in the third quarter, according to Trivariate Research. Their multiple compression was roughly 100 times as large as that of the cheapest names, an extreme seen only 5.3% of the time since 1999. AI capital-spending-sensitive high-valuation names such as AMD, Marvell, Corning and Bloom Energy were hit hardest. The S&P 500's forward price-to-earnings ratio fell to 19 at the end of last week from 22 at the start of 2026.

Australia’s ETF industry has hit a record $388 billion as Aussies continue to pile into the low-cost investment funds, with the federal government’s capital gains tax overhaul only accelerating the trend.

Brokers tip a 14% upside for one of these ASX 200 shares.

India's top 10 listed blue-chip companies are experiencing a decline in market capitalisation share. This decline is attributed to sustained foreign portfolio investor selling and large-cap stock underperformance. The top 10 companies now account for around 17.65% of the total market capitalisation as of October 9. Despite this, domestic flows are supporting the broader market and smaller companies are outperforming large caps.

Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases declined for a second consecutive week while the treasury firm raised spending on STRC preferred stock buybacks. <p>The post Strategy Adds 250 Bitcoin as Weekly Buys Slow, STRC Buybacks Hit $192 Million first appeared on BTCUSA. </p>

Oil and gas prices rose Monday after an “energy ceasefire” announced by President Donald Trump on Sunday failed to gain traction.