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PayPal agreed to forgo approximately $30 million in transaction fees to end a Justice Department probe into allegations that the financial services company had adopted unlawful preferences for minority-owned businesses. Justice Department officials had been investigating whether the company violated a federal civil rights law that prohibits creditors from discriminating against applicants based on race. The department’s probe targeted PayPal’s $530 million plan to support Black and minority-owned businesses, which the company created in 2020, shortly after the killing of George Floyd by a police officer prompted a nationwide conversation about racial inequality.

Earnings season revs up the next few days as investors will hear from big companies including Advanced Micro Devices, CoreWeave, Pfizer and McDonald's. Data on the U.S. jobs market will also be watched closely, culminating in April nonfarm payroll numbers Friday.

Investors won’t get too much of a respite from a big week trading the AI boom, with Palantir, Advanced Micro Devices, and CoreWeave reporting earnings. A bevy of data about the U.S. jobs market will also be watched closely, culminating in April nonfarm payroll numbers Friday.

ON Semiconductor, Pfizer, Uber, McDonald’s, and many more will report earnings this week. Economic releases will include the April jobs report and purchasing managers index.