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Retail traders scrambled to check portfolios on Monday. The internet could barely handle it.

Online trading platforms including Charles Schwab, Vanguard and Fidelity experienced disruptions Monday morning, leaving frustrated retail investors nowhere to go on a day of frantic market sell-off.

Users turned to Reddit and X to report that they weren’t able to log into their accounts. As a result, consumers lost access to the market “at the most crucial times,” one Reddit user said.

At around 12:30 p.m. EDT, Charles Schwab said on X that a “ technical issue experienced by some clients has been resolved.” Vanguard first acknowledged the issue and that it was “working diligently to restore functionality” in a post on X, which was later taken down.

At its peak, Charles Schwab was down for 15,462 users, according to online tracking website Downdetector.com. The Securities and Exchange Commission told Reuters that they were tracking the developments.

Disclosure: Sherwood Media is a independent subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., which competes with some of the trading platforms listed here.

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Deere posted adjusted earnings of $3.93 per share, beating the $3.84 estimate from Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet. The company also said it expects full-year 2026 profit to land between $4 billion and $4.75 billion. Wall Street expected more than $5 billion.

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Robinhood jumps after forming joint venture to enhance its prediction markets business

Shares of Robinhood Markets are on the rise in premarket trading after the brokerage announced after the close on Tuesday a joint venture with Susquehanna to enhance its prediction market business.

The pair is launching an independent futures and derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, with Robinhood as the controlling partner and Susquehanna serving as the liquidity provider, and is expected to begin operations next year. In a related move, the joint venture is acquiring 90% of MIAXdx, a derivatives exchange that was once a part of FTX.

(Robinhood Markets Inc. is the parent company of Sherwood Media, an independently operated media company subject to certain legal and regulatory restrictions.)

Currently, Robinhood offers access to contracts with probabilities referenced or sourced from KalshiEx LLC or ForecastEx LLC. The joint venture would have the tools needed to operate an event contracts business independently and the potential to gain a bigger share of the revenues associated with this fast-growing product line thanks to the brokerage’s ample distribution network.

Per the press release:

“Prediction Markets have quickly become Robinhood’s fastest-growing product line by revenue. Just one year since launch, 9 billion contracts have been traded by more than 1 million Robinhood customers. By introducing a robust, institutional-grade exchange to the market, we’ll add more choices for consumers. We’ll also gain the flexibility to build faster and deliver more contracts and services to traders.”

Bank of America analysts recently warned that the boom in prediction markets and online gambling was creating “emerging credit risks” for some lenders.

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For the fiscal fourth quarter ended October 31, sales rose 4% year over year to $14.64 billion, topping the $14.48 billion expected. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.93, just about 1% ahead of the LSEG consensus.

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