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 ...

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 ...

Intel reportedly plans to lay off thousands of workers, with details potentially emerging alongside quarterly earnings

Intel Corp. may fire thousands of workers by the end of the month, around the same time the chip manufacturer reports quarterly results amid a tough year for semiconductor makers, according to a repor...

Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months — and remote workers may be the first go to

Alarm sirens from the C-Suite about a looming recession are gaining volume in America and elsewhere, but calls back to the office for full-time work are a lot softer. Most CEOs across the globe shared...

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...

Almost 100 Facebook janitors laid off as Silicon Valley service-worker cuts continue

Nearly 100 Facebook janitors were laid off from the tech giant’s California offices Friday, two months after being told their jobs would be safe. The number of job cuts was actually supposed to be clo...

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...

Facebook and Snap Stock are Both Cheap. Why Shares May Still Struggle.

Social media may be the most influential innovation of the 21st century. In 2022, if an event doesn’t make it to a social feed, it never really happened, like the tree that falls in a forest with no a...

3M Plans Job Cuts to Rein in Expenses as Legal Troubles Grow

Text size 3M suffered a legal setback last week when a judge denied a motion that would have limited payouts. Alamy 3M , the maker of Post-it notes and Scotch tape, plans to eliminate jobs in a cost-c...

Opinion: Ford’s job cuts are just the beginning of another EV earthquake

Electric vehicles, or EVs, promise a green automotive revolution, but this will not come without uncomfortable transitions in the labor force. Those trade-offs are coming starkly into focus, raising q...

Ford Confirms Layoffs, Says It Is Cutting About 3,000 Jobs

Updated Aug. 22, 2022 4:58 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Ford Motor confirmed Monday it is laying off roughly 3,000 white-collar and contract employees, marking the latest in its efforts to slas...

The ‘crying CEO’ says, ‘I’m just a small business owner.’

The “crying CEO” said he never intended to become a viral phenomenon. Braden Wallake’s emotional LinkedIn post about having to lay off employees at his Ohio-based marketing-services company became the...

Beyond Meat Plans to Lay Off 4% of Global Workforce

Beyond Meat is cutting 4% of its global workforce, saying the layoffs are part of its plan to reduce costs as inflation prompts consumers to buy less-expensive protein. The California-based company, w...

Uber, Boeing, Warner Bros. Discovery: Stocks That Defined the Week

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple ...

Oracle Lays Off Hundreds of Employees

Oracle laid off hundreds of employees this week as the business software provider prioritizes its healthcare IT services and cloud businesses, according to people familiar with the company’s actions. ...

Walmart Stock Falls After Report of Hundreds of Layoffs

Text size Shares of Walmart are down about 10% this year. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Walmart is eliminating about 200 jobs in a bid to restructure the company, according to a report from The...

Walmart Lays Off Hundreds of Corporate Workers

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate roles in a restructuring effort, according to people familiar with the matter, a week after the retail giant warned of falling profits. The retailer began noti...

Microsoft stock jumps after ‘shockingly robust’ forecast calls for continued strong cloud growth

Microsoft Corp. missed expectations for profit and revenue in a Tuesday earnings report, as deteriorating economic conditions led to an even greater shock than expected when executives revised their g...

It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers

After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...

Ford Plans to Cut Several Thousand Salaried Jobs

Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut several thousand white-collar workers as it looks to trim costs to position the company for a long-range transition to electric vehicles, according to people familiar...

All Jobs Businesses Cut in Pandemic Are Back, but Not Where They Were Lost

Private-sector payrolls exceeded prepandemic levels in June, taking just over two years to close a 21 million job gap that was created in the spring of 2020 and reshaping the labor market in the proce...

Rivian CEO Hosted an All-Hands Meeting. What Was Discussed.

Text size Electric-truck start-up Rivian recently announced layoffs. Courtesy Rivian Fast-growing electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive is laying off workers. The news surprised the market earlier...

Microsoft and Gopuff Are Latest Tech Firms to Cut Jobs

Microsoft is cutting a small percentage of its staff, the latest in a string of layoffs by high-profile tech companies. The software maker said it is cutting a number of positions, affecting less than...

Twitter Didn’t Seek a Sale. Now Elon Musk Doesn’t Want to Buy. Cue Strange Legal Drama.

Elon Musk’s showdown with Twitter has set the stage for what could become one of the most unusual courtroom battles in corporate-takeover history—a spurned acquisition target that never sought to be b...

Tesla’s Bumpy Quarter Might Be About More Than Lockdowns in China

The smooth acceleration shown by Tesla in the past two years faltered in the second quarter. Chief Executive Elon Musk has offered hints that the problems run deeper than lockdowns in Shanghai. On Sat...

Novartis Will Cut 8,000 Jobs Under CEO’s Shake-Up Plan

Text size Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday it will lay off more than 7% of its workforce, just a few months after CEO Vas N...

Tesla Sued for Employee Layoffs. Musk Calls Suit Trivial.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images Employees laid off by Tesla have sued in response, giving investors in the electric-vehicle company one more issue to worry about. Employment has been on th...