Hi Skol ... Today's US job carnage
I'm amazed that you persist with your horsesheet on here about the booming US economy, when it's clearly in a depression. Here's TODAY's sackings from Marketwatchit's been a depressing week, as the job cuts and company closures accelerate markedly because business is so good ...
Chevron said it could cut 6,000 to 7,000 jobs and pare its capital spending by 25% next year, as profit tumbled in its third quarter.
Amazon shuts down coupon business, job losses not disclosed (what not enough can afford cheap deals?) ... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-shutting-down-groupon-rival-2015-10-30?dist=afterbell
ESPN shuts website, 300 lose jobs ... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/es...t-calls-it-the-worst-decision-ever-2015-10-30
Xerox job losses imminent ... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/xerox-stumbles-to-loss-to-review-portfolio-2015-10-26-12485721
Cabelas cutting job ... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cabelas-profit-dented-by-weak-demand-2015-10-22
Medicare (US) sheds jobs ... Federal agency is sharply reducing the work of auditors that review hospital claims and seek to recoup improper payments for the government.
Kraft Heinz to close factories .... Kraft Heinz Co. could unveil its first closures of legacy Kraft factories as soon as next week, a spokesman for the company says
Grocer goes broke ... Grocery chain Fresh & Easy LLC filed for chapter 11 protection and intends to wind down its business, just two years after it was purchased out of an earlier trip through
Eaton cutting more jobs ... Eaton Corp. warned that its business markets will remain weak into 2016, prompting the industrial conglomerate to extend its downsizing program to further reduce costs.
More oil jobs lost ... The U.S. oil-rig count dropped by 16 to 578 in the latest week, the ninth consecutive week of declines, according to Baker Hughes
And over the border ... Husky Energy reported a third-quarter loss of more than 4 billion Canadian dollars due to a hefty write-down related to slumping oil prices, and said it had cut around 1400 jobs.
RBC cuts jobs ... Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s second-largest bank by assets, laid off at least 30 people in its capital-markets division this month as part of a cost-cutting drive..
US Consumer confidence rebounded less than expected in October as wealthier households worried about volatility in financial markets ... well that's hardly surprising now, isn't it?
Please find a list of any hiring, any list will do ...
A total boom of course, and these are the ones that hit the headlines ...
When the penny drops real soon, so will Wall St, and gold stocks imo will go into orbit, just as Homestake did in the Great Depression.![]()
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