{"id":6555,"date":"2022-08-03T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/trading-platform-robinhood-lays-off-nearly-a-quarter-of-staff-as-crypto-drops\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T06:37:24","slug":"trading-platform-robinhood-lays-off-nearly-a-quarter-of-staff-as-crypto-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/trading-platform-robinhood-lays-off-nearly-a-quarter-of-staff-as-crypto-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading platform Robinhood lays off nearly a quarter of staff as crypto drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news comes on the heels of a dire revenue report, with company shares taking a 3% tumble in extended trading<\/p>\n<p>Robinhood, the trading platform that gained notoriety for allowing amateur stock investors to play the market, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/robinhood-lays-off-23-of-staff-11659471011\">laying off<\/a> nearly a quarter of its staff \u2013 citing economic conditions and the crash of the cryptocurrency market.<\/p>\n<p>The news it was slashing 23% of its staff came as the company posted a 44% decline in revenues on slumping trading activity, in a surprise earnings report that came one day earlier than scheduled, and sent the company\u2019s shares down more than 3% in extended trading.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/aug\/02\/robinhood-lay-offs-crypto-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/becc691a6f4cd44bc040caca23da2d9cdd5eeeba\/0_127_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b9e8de9cfe0879930a16fdc9068466d5\" title=\"Trading platform Robinhood lays off nearly a quarter of staff as crypto drops\" \/>The news comes on the heels of a dire revenue report, with company shares taking a 3% tumble in extended trading<br \/>\nRobinhood, the trading platform that gained notoriety for allowing amateur stock investors to play the market, is laying off nearly a quarter of its staff \u2013 citing economic conditions and the crash of the cryptocurrency market.<br \/>\nThe news it was slashing 23% of its staff came as the company posted a 44% decline in revenues on slumping trading activity, in a surprise earnings report that came one day earlier than scheduled, and sent the company\u2019s shares down more than 3% in extended trading. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news comes on the heels of a dire revenue report, with company shares taking a 3% tumble in extended trading Robinhood, the trading platform that gained notoriety for allowing amateur stock investors to play the market, is laying off nearly a quarter of its staff \u2013 citing economic conditions and the crash of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/trading-platform-robinhood-lays-off-nearly-a-quarter-of-staff-as-crypto-drops\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trading platform Robinhood lays off nearly a quarter of staff as crypto drops<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}