Amid stubborn inflation, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck
Despite higher prices, consumers are still spending, although not as much as they were a year ago, which is giving their budgets some breathing room.As of January, 60% of all U.S. adults, including 45% of high-income earners, were living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new LendingClub report. That’s down from 64% a year earlier, suggesting […]
54% of Americans are dipping into savings to pay for everyday expenses
Inflation is still taking a hefty toll on households, recent reports show.Prices continued their upward momentum in January, rising 0.5% for the month and 6.4% over the past 12 months, according to the latest consumer price index data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.To make ends meet, 27% of Americans said they’ve had to take money […]
Dell to cut 6,650 jobs, report says
Dell Technologies will join the ranks of technology companies slashing jobs as the computer maker will shed 6,650 positions, according to a published report on Monday. Citing a company spokesman after seeing a memo, Bloomberg reported the job cuts. Jeff Clarke, co-chief operating officer, told employees that the current conditions will “continue to erode with […]
Amazon cut 67,000 jobs in 2022, the first yearly decline in 20 years
Amazon.com Inc. had a pretty bad year in 2022, with the e-commerce and cloud giant recording its biggest loss ever, and with its stock suffering a yearly record loss. Its employees had a bad year, too: For the first time in 20 years, the company shrank its workforce. According to Amazon’s 2022 annual report, released […]
‘Wow,” Fed’s Daly says after killer jobs report, but it doesn’t alter Fed’s inflation-fighting plan
The president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve said the huge increase in new U.S. jobs in January was a “wow” report, but she stressed the central bank needs more information before it decides how much further to raise interest rates. “What I am seeing is a strong labor market,” Mary Daly said in an […]
Short on Cash, More Americans Tap 401(k) Savings for Emergencies: WSJ
Plan advisers say a rise in hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts is driven by financial strain and looser regulations. Source link
Meta stock spikes despite earnings miss, as Facebook hits 2 billion users for first time and sales guidance quells fears
Meta Platforms Inc. shares soared in after-hours trading Wednesday despite an earnings miss, as the Facebook parent company guided for potentially more revenue than Wall Street expected in the new year and promised more share repurchases amid cost cuts. Meta META, +2.79% said it hauled in $32.17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, down from $33.67 billion […]
U.S. employment costs rise more slowly, but still too fast for Fed comfort
The numbers: The U.S. employment cost index rose more slowly at the end of 2022 for the third quarter in a row, but worker compensation still rose a sharp 1% and didn’t offer much comfort to the Federal Reserve as it fights to tame inflation. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast a […]
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google face earnings test amid Big Tech layoffs
In the biggest week of the holiday-earnings season, Big Tech results will receive the spotlight amid thousands of layoffs that could only be the beginning.After tech stocks were decimated in 2022, investors will be looking for signs of a turnaround in holiday reports and potential forecasts for the year ahead from three of 2022’s top […]
More than 68,000 global tech-sector employees have lost jobs in 2023: layoff-data tracker
More than 68,000 global technology sector employees have been laid off in the first few weeks of 2023, according to data compiled by the website Layoffs.fyi. The website’s tally of global tech layoffs in 2023 has more than doubled since last week, when it recorded just over 25,000 layoffs. The data suggest 2023 is on […]