Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is embarking on one of its biggest round of job cuts ever as it locks in on a plan to eliminate about 3,200 positions this week, with the bank’s leadership going deeper than rivals to shed jobs.
The firm is expected to start the process mid-week and the total number of people affected will not exceed 3,200, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. More than a third of those will likely be from within its core trading and banking units, indicating the broad nature of the cuts. The firm is also poised to unveil financials tied to a new unit that houses its credit card and installment-lending business, which will record more than $2 billion in pretax losses, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information.
A spokesperson for the New York-based company declined to comment. The cuts in its investment bank are elevated by the inclusion of the non front-office roles that were added to divisional headcount in recent years. The bank still has plans to continue hiring, including inducting the regular analyst class later this year
@PeterSchiff – #Gold is strong again tonight, hitting a new 7-month high. The dollar is also trading lower against other currencies. This is likely the beginning of a huge run, as markets start pricing in the reality the U.S. #inflation rate won’t return to 2% for the remainder of this decade.
Can’t say “learn to Code” after all the IT layoffs.
Learn to Coal?
Having just been through one of those: they aren’t firing the programmers. They’re cutting support staff, HR, “business development” and assorted useless eaters kept afloat by the boom economy.
Some underperforming developers and QA staff, and some high level technical managers get fired mostly because of their high salaries. Those people get snapped up very quickly. Learn To Code is still bollocks, though; *good* programmers are in high demand. Tyros are not.
Goldman Sachs is not going to get a lot of sympathy from any corner.
But I wonder what this says of the financial industry in general. Is the industry in the process of huge structural changes? If so, what are those changes?
Biden’s rocket ship “hopeful economy.”
Sadly, we can’t even trust the economic indicators that the government announces regularly. New jobs created in the second quarter of 2022 looked great, and months later were revised down to nearly zero. This clearly was a pre-mid-term election ploy, and every branch of the government is criminally in league with the Biden Crime Family.
When every single government agency is wholly and completely corrupt and beholden to the left and dedicated to the destruction of the west, what do people suppose will happen?
Nothing reported by media or financial media has any basis in reality whatsoever
People want raises to deal with inflation.. They got walking papers instead.. I’m sure they will hire you back for half the money if your willing to eat that shit.. Such is life 🙁
Thinking here of SBF on a massive scale ©®™
Whatever they do is impossible to stop, too large to fail.
Trust the experts, right? Well things have been expertly manipulated. The falling US dollar may be our final bellwether, much as it was in 2008. It doesn’t mean they won’t be able to maintain the Potemkin for a while, but carnage is likely to follow. Thank goodness we don’t have inflation or it’s transitory or it’s down to 6.7%. Take your pick.
In other words they split the business into two divisions the so-called “good-bank” and the seriously underperforming “bad-bank”.
“The firm is also poised to unveil financials tied to a new unit that houses its credit card and installment-lending business, which will record more than $2 billion in pretax losses”……….this is a standard bankruptcy ploy, hive off all the money-losing shit and sell it for pennies on the dollar, write off the loss against future earnings, hoping that the lesser money-losing divisions can somehow survive. The presstitutes were criticizing President Trump for doing this when his taxes for the last five years were released.
Think it cannot happen in canaduh? Our banks are stacked full with non-performing mortgages and home-equity loans most of them only viable when CERB benefits were rolling in.
When a recession really starts to bite, people dump their toys first. My Porsche-o-meter says we’re not there yet. There are some signs – more listings, new listings priced below market, longer to sell, existing listings discounted, but we aren’t there yet. Pick your toys – boats, quad-runners, snowmobiles, vintage cars – because they go first. Expensive enough to free up some much needed cash, but not super expensive. The Porsche-o-meter ($30,000 – $80,000) says we aren’t there yet.
Seinfeld ditched some of his Porsche collection already, for meellions…
I’ll let you know when my old cheap toys go on the market.