D. E. Shaw, the brainiac hedge fund with flexible hours and no dress code, has cut 10 percent of its staff, according to a report by Institutional Investor.
Institutional says that around 150 people have been let go, as the company’s assets have dropped by half over the past two years.
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Update: Citing a “highly placed” source he apparently met up with at the Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station, CNBC’s John Carney reports that fixed-income desks across Wall Street are in for some serious layoffs. Says the shellfish aficionado:
“We’re easily going to cut a quarter to a half of our traders and back Read More
New York City residents, rejoice! A mere 9.4 percent of you were unemployed in August, according to figures released today by the New York State Department of Labor. That’s a little better than the nationwide rate of 9.6 percent.
The city rate remained flat from July, and marked a decrease from the August 2009 Read More
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Newly minted Council of Economic Advisors head Austan Goolsbee said Sunday that he expects the unemployment rate, currently at 9.6 percent, to remain at high levels for a long time.
Goolsbee declined to predict a specific unemployment rate for the end of 2010, saying only that he didn’t expect a decline in joblessness to Read More
The Department of Labor today released its jobless claims numbers for the week ended Sept. 4. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell by 27,000 to 451,000.
The stock market appears to be rallying on the decline in unemployment claims, which was much larger than the decline of 2,000 economists had forecast. “Read More
The U.S. Department of Labor is heralding the upcoming long weekend by announcing that in August, 54,000 Americans saw their weekends extended indefinitely as employers cut jobs.
Economists surveyed by Reuteres were expecting a nonfarm payroll decline of 99,000. The total number of unemployed Americans ticked up to 14.9 million, and the unemployment Read More
