According to @StockMKTNewz, citing The Wall Street Journal, Verizon (VZ) plans to cut about 15,000 jobs, or roughly 15% of its workforce, as soon as next week (source: The Wall Street Journal via @StockMKTNewz). According to The Wall Street Journal as relayed by @StockMKTNewz, most reductions will be through layoffs, and about 200 company-owned stores will transition to franchised operations, shifting those employees off Verizon’s payroll (source: The Wall Street Journal via @StockMKTNewz). According to The Wall Street Journal via @StockMKTNewz, Verizon had roughly 100,000 employees as of February, and the planned cuts would be the carrier’s largest to date (source: The Wall Street Journal via @StockMKTNewz). According to The Wall Street Journal via @StockMKTNewz, the report did not include details on expected cost savings, one-time restructuring charges, or guidance changes, and it did not mention any direct cryptocurrency market impact (source: The Wall Street Journal via @StockMKTNewz).

According to @StockMKTNewz, citing The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase (COIN) is launching a platform that will let individual investors buy digital tokens before those assets list on the Coinbase exchange (source: The Wall Street Journal). For trading, this introduces a pre-listing access phase around Coinbase-related token launches, enabling equity and crypto traders to track upcoming offerings, allocation terms, and listing dates to plan liquidity and execution around initial trading on Coinbase (source: The Wall Street Journal). Near term, COIN traders can watch for official details from Coinbase on eligible tokens, jurisdictional availability, and fee structure to assess the scope and timing of the rollout (source: The Wall Street Journal).

According to @StockMKTNewz, The Wall Street Journal reported Caterpillar now expects the net impact from tariffs to be 1.5B to 1.8B dollars for the current year, up from a prior 1.3B to 1.5B dollars, indicating a greater hit to finances (source: @StockMKTNewz citing The Wall Street Journal). According to @StockMKTNewz citing The Wall Street Journal, the midpoint rises to 1.65B dollars from 1.40B dollars, a roughly 250M dollar (about 18 percent) increase based on the figures reported. According to @StockMKTNewz citing The Wall Street Journal, this update was reported on August 28, 2025 and specifically addresses Caterpillar’s tariff cost outlook; the report does not reference cryptocurrencies. According to Kaiko, BTC’s correlation with U.S. equities has shown periods of decline in 2023–2024, suggesting limited direct spillover from single-stock industrial headlines to crypto in those periods (source: Kaiko).