Skyline view of the City of London financial district. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. economy slipped into a technical recession in the final quarter of last year, initial figures showed Thursday. The Office for National Statistics said U.K. gross domestic product shrank by 0.3% in the final three…

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Robinhood Markets — Shares jumped 8% after the trading platform posted a surprise earnings and revenue beat. Robinhood reported 3 cents in earnings per share, versus analysts’ expectations of a loss of 1 cent per share, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. Revenue came in…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. WK Kellogg — The cereal company’s shares surged 11% after posting a beat on both top and bottom lines in the fourth quarter. The recently spun-off company also raised its 2024 forecast. Shopify — The e-commerce company saw shares slide more than 10% after it gave…

Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel thinks Nvidia’s monster rally is fueling a fear of missing out in the market. He finds clients, including many who traded through the dot-com boom and subsequent collapse, are more worried about being underinvested than overexposed right now. “That’s the first time that’s happened since 2021 for us,” the firm’s senior…

Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading. Avis Budget Group — Shares slipped about 1% after the rental car company’s fourth-quarter revenue of $2.76 billion in the fourth quarter missed estimates. Analysts polled by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv, forecast $2.81 billion. JetBlue Airways — The airline’s stock jumped more than 15% after…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. New York Community Bancorp — The regional bank added 3.1%, building on its sharp gains from Friday — when the stock rallied after an influx of insider buying. Bank of America also reiterated its neutral rating on Monday, while noting that leadership has “the playbook to…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Hershey — The chocolate maker fell 1% after Morgan Stanley downgraded shares to underweight from equal weight. The bank cited weak consumer demand and high cocoa inflation weighing upon margins. Rocket Lab — The stock rose around 1% after Citi reinstated coverage with a buy rating.…

Investors may want to consider putting money to work in a lagging part of the market. According to VanEck CEO Jan van Eck, oil stocks are getting a raw deal. “The [oil] supply is there. The companies are arguably the next best cash flowing companies [compared to] the semiconductors,” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Pinterest — Shares fell about 11% after the image-sharing company issued softer-than-expected guidance for its first-quarter revenue. Late Thursday, Pinterest posted fourth-quarter revenue that disappointed Wall Street, but beat on earnings, per LSEG. CleanSpark – The bitcoin miner surged 37% after posting better than expected results…

Pedestrians pass a JPMorgan Chase bank branch in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The three biggest American retail banks collected 25% less overdraft revenue last year as the companies, under pressure from regulators to cap the fees, created new ways for customers to avoid the penalties. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and…