{"id":279170,"date":"2026-02-11T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:19:10","slug":"job-growth-crushes-estimates-in-january-unemployment-rate-unexpectedly-dips-to-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279170\/","title":{"rendered":"Job growth crushes estimates in January, unemployment rate unexpectedly dips to 4.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"css-g65o95\" href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/analysts-give-mixed-reviews-to-robinhoods-q4-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Analysts give mixed reviews on Robinhood\u2019s Q4 results<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\"><a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/us\/en\/stocks\/HOOD\/?source=sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robinhood Markets<\/a> remained down in premarket trading after <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/markets\/robinhood-2025-q4-earnings-revenue-eps\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">delivering Q4 results<\/a> Tuesday that fell short of some of Wall Street\u2019s expectations, partly due to a slide in crypto trading. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Here\u2019s what analysts had to say about the print: <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Barclays: \u201cQ4 came in softer than expected as lower take rates in options and crypto impacted transaction revenues, and lower [securities] lending in particular impacted [net interest income].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Mizuho: \u201cPrediction Markets were strong, but overall mixed quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Piper Sandler: \u201cBottom line, despite these ST headwinds which we laid out in our note last week, our LT thesis remains intact. If you can stomach the volatility, HOOD is the best way to play secular growth in retail trading and the closest FinTech platform we\u2019ve ever seen to achieving \u2018super app\u2019 status.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Zack\u2019s Investment Research: \u201cCrypto trading revenue fell 38% year over year in Q4, and January data showed another 57% decline in app-based crypto volumes. Unfortunately, that\u2019s not a seasonal blip, that\u2019s a structural slowdown in one of Robinhood\u2019s historically highest-margin engagement drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-14ve0pc\">Citizens JMP: \u201cSlight revenue shortfall for Robinhood Markets but better expense performance, broadening business contribution, and a full roadmap should support strong growth again in 2026; reiterate our Market Outperform rating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analysts give mixed reviews on Robinhood\u2019s Q4 results Robinhood Markets remained down in premarket trading after delivering Q4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-279170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}