71400: Number Of Jobs Cut In A Single Day
CNN Money has an article on the current job loss: Bloody Monday: Over 71,400 jobs lost The final week of January began with a bloodbath for the job market, as over 71,400 more cuts were announced on Monday alone. At least six companies from manufacturing and service industries announced cost-cutting initiatives that included slashing thousands [...]
Job Losses Keep Piling – Will Prolong Recession
Jobs announcements from the past two days : Privately held Chrysler said on Thursday it is slashing 1,825 jobs after losing $1 billion in the first half of the year. Goldman Sachs [GS] plans to cut 10 percent of its staff, or almost 3,300 jobs after laying off hundreds of support staff and junior bankers [...]
No End In Sight: More And More Bad News
ECONOMY The Labor Department reported that jobless claims jumped by 32,000 to a seasonally adjusted 493,000 last week The Commerce Department said that new orders to factories for big-ticket manufactured goods fell by 4.5 percent last month The average price of a new home fell in August by 11.8 percent to $263,900, the biggest one-month [...]