Employers Rethink Need for College Degrees in Tight Labor Market

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Mega-Companies Messed Up America’s Job Market. They’re Doing it Again.

Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a...

The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling

Tech is full of smart people who build, run and invest in successful companies that have produced a tremendous amount of innovation. But the industry’s recent spate of failures and reversals has made ...

Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg chokes up on witness stand, claims his ‘personal greed’ drove $1.7 million tax-avoidance scheme

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief choked up on the witness stand Thursday, saying he betrayed the Trump family’s trust by scheming to dodge taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid pe...

Cisco Stock Gains on Earnings. Layoffs Are Coming. 

Cisco Systems shares are trading higher after the networking-infrastructure company posted better-than-expected revenue and profit growth for its fiscal first quarter, ended Oct. 29. The company also ...

You need to understand the FTX debacle even if you have no investments in crypto

The sudden collapse of FTX, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, underlines how important it is for any investor to learn about the risks they take when they park their money with a ligh...

Elon Musk Made Unusual Request in Falling Out With Top Tesla Lieutenant

Last year, Elon Musk parted ways with one of his top deputies at Tesla Inc., a French auto-industry executive named Jerome Guillen. Mr. Guillen worked at Tesla for roughly a decade, rising to oversee ...

Are older workers getting ‘quiet-fired?’

Here’s a strange paradox regarding older workers: On the one hand, they’re 14% less likely to receive the highest annual performance ratings, according to Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute. But, t...

Republicans claim Google is sending their fundraising emails to Gmail users’ spam folders

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November’s midterm elec...

Opinion: Your HSA can be an extra retirement savings — how to make smart choices during open enrollment

It’s open enrollment season, which means it’s time for most workers to choose benefits for the year ahead. Health insurance is one of the most popular benefits that workers review yearly, but there is...

Intel stock up 20% to best trading day since COVID-19 pandemic’s first days

Intel Corp. shares on Friday scored their best one-day rally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after the chip maker’s planned cost cuts and layoffs encouraged investors that have withstood shri...

Intel stock rises on earnings beat, plans for layoffs, billions in cost cuts planned

Intel Corp. shares rose after hours Thursday after the chip maker topped Wall Street earnings estimates for the quarter and PC-chip sales came in slightly higher than expected, while the company trimm...

Intel Stock Gains as Guidance Disappoints. Layoffs Are Coming.

Intel plans significant cost cuts , including a “meaningful number” of layoffs, its CFO said as the chip maker detailed its financial results and forecast revenue that was much lower than Wall Street ...

Opinion: Facebook and Google grew into tech titans by ignoring Wall Street. Now it could lead to their downfall

Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. became two of the most valuable companies in the world by largely ignoring Wall Street and its concerns about their spending and big-money acquisitions. Now, in t...

Microsoft earnings on deck amid layoffs, recession fears: What to expect

Microsoft, which is laying off nearly 1,000 workers across multiple divisions, reports its fiscal first-quarter results after market close on Oct. 25. With fears of a recession looming, Axios and Busi...

Goldman CEO Frustrated by Stock Price, Says Most Staff in Office Every Day

Goldman Sachs Group CEO David Solomon expressed some frustration with the valuation of the company’s stock, noting that it generally has traded a premium to book value since its IPO in 1999. “Would I ...

Netflix and Tesla stocks are not having a good year, but here comes a chance to turn it around

Two stocks that have defined Wall Street’s boom in the past decade — streaming giant Netflix Inc. and electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. — will hope to turn around some poor recent trajectories as earn...

China Evergrande’s Debt-Crisis Fallout: Losses, Layoffs and More Defaults

Listen to article (2 minutes) When China Evergrande Group began struggling under a mountain of debt last year, it quietly set off a chain reaction across the country.  Chinese authorities prevented a ...

U.S. Suppliers Halt Operations at Top Chinese Memory Chip Maker

BEIJING–U.S. chip-equipment suppliers are pulling out staff based at China’s leading memory-chip maker and pausing business activities there, according to people familiar with the matter, as they grap...

Layoffs at Intel Could Spell a Bitter Winter for Tech. It’s Not All Bad News.

Intel looks set to be the latest tech company to announce job cuts in the face of a gloomy macro outlook—a sign that a bitter winter is coming for the sector. From a more macro perspective, there are ...

Exxon Improperly Fired Scientists Suspected of Sharing Information, Labor Department Finds

Listen to article (2 minutes) The Labor Department said it found Exxon Mobil illegally fired two company scientists over suspicions they shared information with The Wall Street Journal about concerns ...

Nvidia closes Russian offices, will fly relocating employees out of the country, report says

Chipmaker Nvidia is ending its activities in Russia, and is giving its employees in the country the opportunity to relocate. In a statement, Nvidia Corp. NVDA, +5.23% confirmed that it is ceasing all ...

Opinion: Stock markets will drop another 40% as a severe stagflationary debt crisis hits an overleveraged global economy

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—For a year now, I have argued that the increase in inflation would be persistent, that its causes include not only bad policies but also negative supply shocks, and that c...

Facebook parent is no longer one of 10 most valuable U.S. companies. Here’s what just overtook it.

Meta Platforms Inc. is furthering its descent through the ranks of the biggest companies in the U.S., this time falling below Exxon Mobil Co. for the first time in more than five years. The Facebook p...

Value or Quality? Five Bank Stocks for When Unemployment Rises

Bank stocks are down by double digits this year, falling on fears of a recession coming in early 2023. Yet some banks look more resilient than others, and it may pay to emphasize those with quality ov...

Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push

Meta Platforms is planning to cut expenses by at least 10% in the coming months, in part through staff reductions, as the social-media giant confronts stalling growth and increased competition, accord...

FedEx to Close Offices, Park Aircraft After Warning of Sales Shortfall

Updated Sept. 15, 2022 5:42 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) FedEx said its quarterly revenue fell below its expectations and it was closing offices and parking aircraft to offset declining volumes...

Goldman Sachs Is Preparing Layoffs. Tech Isn’t the Only Industry Cutting Jobs.

Text size Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to reports. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to media r...

Shopify Announces Changes in Top Leadership

Text size The company announced a 10% cut to its workforce in July. Dreamstime Shopify announced a new chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Thursday, a little less than two months af...

Bed Bath & Beyond Finance Chief Gustavo Arnal Found Dead

By Ginger Adams Otis and Ryan Felton Updated Sept. 4, 2022 7:00 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Bed Bath & Beyond Chief Financial Officer Gustavo Arnal was found dead Friday after falling from...

Enough, Bosses Say: This Fall, It Really Is Time to Get Back to the Office*

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