#analysis

California

• ServiceNow is cutting 63 workers in San Diego, with keywords including software, headcount, layoff, and CEO pledge.
• Coinbase has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in San Francisco, with keywords including AI, job cuts, tech, and automation.
• Palo Alto hotel has layoffs affecting an unknown number of full-time workers in Palo Alto, with keywords including hotel, contract workers, staff replacement, and April layoffs.
• Gallo is cutting 20 workers in Lodi, with keywords including Turner Road plant, grape crush, winemaking, and Modesto-based.
• IGN is cutting 4 tech workers in an unspecified location, with keywords including tech workers, Summer Game Fest, union, and IGN Creators Guild.

Colorado

• CAE is cutting an unknown number of workers in Pueblo, with keywords including site closure, flight training, Air Force pilots, and fall shutdown.

Connecticut

• Stamford Public Schools has layoffs affecting 5 educators in Stamford, with keywords including teachers union, layoffs, reassignments, grievance, and school budget.

Illinois

• Hawthorne Race Course warns of 290 potential layoffs in Illinois, with keywords including horse track, potential layoffs, sale, and regulators.

Iowa

• Iowa state IT workers face potential layoffs or job disruption in Des Moines, with keywords including outsourcing, IPERS, service disruptions, and state government.

Louisiana

• St. Landry Parish Schools faces potential layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in St. Landry Parish, with keywords including financial crisis, school closures, debt, and superintendent warning.

Maryland

• University System of Maryland has layoffs affecting at least 84 workers across UMD, Bowie State, and UMBC, with keywords including AFSCME, Board of Regents, University of Maryland, and state campuses.

Massachusetts

• Takeda is cutting hundreds of workers in Cambridge, with keywords including biotech, Massachusetts, thousands of jobs, and July layoffs.

Minnesota

• Mankato Clinic is cutting nearly 100 workers in Mankato, with keywords including healthcare costs, 10 percent, clinic employees, and rising costs.

New York

• The New School is cutting 90 workers in New York City, with keywords including budget deficit, university, AAUP, and firings.

Pennsylvania

• JBS is cutting nearly 1,500 workers in Souderton, with keywords including beef plant, closure, Montgomery County, and production plant.

Texas

• El Paso ISD is cutting 250 workers in El Paso by June 19, with keywords including exigency vote, school district, funding issues, and teacher layoffs.
• Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake is cutting 65 workers in Houston, with keywords including hotel closure, renovation, Compass Hotel, and July 31.

Vermont

• University of Vermont Health has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in Vermont, with keywords including healthcare, second straight year, budget cuts, and projections.

Multi-State: Not Specified

• Dow is cutting approximately 4,500 workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including Transform to Outperform, workforce layoffs, costs, and restructuring.
• Microsoft Xbox reportedly plans major layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including gaming division, July layoffs, reset, and budget cuts.
• Salesforce is cutting an unknown number of workers across Agentforce, Mulesoft, and Marketing Cloud locations, with keywords including tech layoffs, second round, AI, and software.
• Meta has cut roughly 8,000 workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including AI restructuring, workforce shift, 10 percent, and no further company-wide layoffs.
• Oracle is finalizing its largest reduction in force affecting an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including AI-driven layoffs, tech industry, reduction in force, and Healthcare IT.
• ABA Centers of America has layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including behavioral health, staff cuts, social media posts, and varied roles.
• Sam Altman's biometric ID venture is laying off an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including eyeball-scanning, Orb, government pushback, and startup.
• UPMC is laying off hundreds of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including nonclinical workers, healthcare, previous layoffs, and workforce reduction.
• Worldcoin or Sam Altman's Orb startup is laying off an unknown number of workers across unspecified locations, with keywords including biometric ID, Orb, government scrutiny, and startup layoffs.

United States

• Western Illinois University has been ordered to reverse layoffs affecting 124 faculty and staff in Illinois, with keywords including librarians, back pay, reinstatement, and 2024 layoffs.
• Tyson has recent mass layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in Nebraska, with keywords including workers, Trump, Nebraska, and plant layoffs.
• PVUSD approved about 150 layoffs in December 2025 after earlier avoiding about 100 layoffs in February 2025 in California, with keywords including consultant, budget troubles, trustees, and teacher layoffs.

Bangladesh

• Bangladesh garment and industrial employers have layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across Bangladesh, with keywords including garment orders, industrial sector, energy shortages, and worker reinstatement.

Nigeria

• Nigeria food and beverage employers face potential mass layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers across the sector, with keywords including rising costs, forex crisis, FOBTOB, and food industry.

Potential/Unconfirmed Layoffs

• Ubisoft reportedly attempted to embargo reporting on layoffs and studio closures affecting an unknown number of workers in unspecified locations, with keywords including mass layoff reporting, studio closures, employees, and embargo.
• Xbox Game Studios faces potential studio closures and layoffs affecting an unknown number of workers in unspecified locations, with keywords including upcoming layoff round, studio closure, financial crisis, and Xbox.
• Microsoft has considered spinning off Xbox while layoffs loom for an unknown number of workers in unspecified locations, with keywords including subsidiary, joint venture, margins, and gaming division.
• Stamford Public Schools has proposed or disputed reassignments affecting dozens of educators in Stamford, with keywords including teachers union, transfers, grievance, and fall staffing.
• St. Landry Parish Schools may close schools and cut an unknown number of workers in Louisiana, with keywords including financial problems, superintendent warning, retreat, and budget crisis.

Company-wide/Location Not Specified

• Innovaccer is eliminating an unknown number of workers in an unspecified location, with keywords including AI-driven layoffs, healthcare IT, tech industry, and reduction in force.
• Amazon and Microsoft laid off a millennial tech worker in unspecified locations, with keywords including job search, tech future, career shift, and prior layoffs.
• Meta laid off a 24-year-old data scientist in an unspecified location, with keywords including job security, AI, large companies, and career rethink.
• Meta laid off an employee who was later detained by ICE in an unspecified location, with keywords including ICE detention, former employee, layoff, and whereabouts unknown.

National/Other Commentary and Analysis

• BNY Investments reported steady hiring and fewer layoffs nationally, with keywords including May jobs report, payroll growth, labor market, and layoffs down.
• Axios Colorado Springs discussed tech layoff prediction markets for college students nationally, with keywords including Kalshi, tech careers, prediction markets, and career planning.
• Robin J Brooks discussed AI and white-collar job losses nationally, with keywords including AI narrative, structural change, labor market, and layoffs.
• AOL and Business Insider reported that job growth remains positive while job seekers face difficulty nationally, with keywords including economy, hiring, low layoffs, and wage growth.
• Fortune reported that AI job disruption may be compounded by low unemployment benefit applications nationally, with keywords including AI layoffs, economic uncertainty, benefits, and jobless workers.
• WION and YouTube discussed whether AI job cuts are real or overstated nationally, with keywords including AI washing, corporate America, mass layoffs, and debate.
• Fast Company or LinkedIn discussed making layoffs feel less inhumane nationally, with keywords including layoffs, workplace, management, and humane process.
• MSN discussed the hidden cost of layoffs nationally, with keywords including income loss, unemployment, layoff cost, and workers.
• Fathom Journal discussed unemployment and layoffs across U.S. states, with keywords including families, living costs, industries, and economic uncertainty.
• Reuters and related outlets reported Zuckerberg's comments ruling out further Meta company-wide layoffs in 2026, with keywords including AI transition, mistakes, stability, and workforce overhaul.
• WIRED and Technology Org reported Meta employee unrest over AI restructuring without a new specific layoff event, with keywords including AI unit, hackathon, employee backlash, and reassignments.
• Yahoo Finance discussed Dow layoffs and valuation implications nationally, with keywords including cost cuts, Xylem deal, long-term returns, and restructuring.
• Politico reported DOJ approval of Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. amid layoff concerns, with keywords including merger, competition, DOJ, and concerns.
• Vanguard News reported food industry layoff risk in Nigeria as sector commentary, with keywords including rising costs, forex crisis, mass layoffs, and industry warning.

We used to see financial analysis of Oracle after earnings in this channel talking about layoffs. Any thing happening ?

Optimum's outlook 'more aspirational than realistic' – analyst
Optimum's new multi-year outlook sees its broadband business stabilizing at 3.8 million subs by the end of 2028. That's a 'tall order,' says New Street Research, which expects broadband losses to continue.

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June 10, 2026

It’s now evident that the XOM’s Permian factory has reached an inflection point and starting to experience technical and operational challenges. Please share your experiences and potential outcomes.

Will XOM make another purchase? Who and when? Certainly missed the last opportunity and now candidate companies are overvalued by +66%.

How long will XOM maintain a +22 rig line? It’s cheaper to buy production then it is to develop your own acreage.

Investors bid the stock up on short‑term good news (earnings, investor stake, dividend), but the Q1 beat could be misleading because it’s pro‑forma and boosted by Lexmark purchase‑accounting adjustments rather than pure organic profit or cash‑flow improvement.

Our closest competitor is ki-ling us.

Here are some new sheet ideas for those workbooks that guide leaderships decisions. I know that our country and our citizens welfare will not be factored in.

1. Plot visa sponsorship against recalls
2. Plot cumulative layoffs against recalls
3. Plot them both against labor cost per dollar earned.
4. Plot visa sponsorship growth in groups, I bet it's exponential.

Here are some of the largest and most prominent companies currently sitting near the bottom of their yearly range:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/uss-big-bet-on-quantum-computing-may-not-be-entirely-legal/

It clearly falls outside the confines of the CHIP Act intent.

Article also points out how utterly ridiculous the idea of a "quantum chip foundry" is in 2026.

Hearing some great intel and insights that Kaskida is being challenged by Meg for potentially not meeting economic and technical hurdles…
Please share your insights on this complex project that was rammed into FID by Murray’s go team…What does Elliot Management think about their capital6 deployed and possibly destroyed? When the the technical class challenges sanctioning

I've seen post on here dissecting and criticizing some of the collabs Nike has at the moment. Some of which has been relatively successful, like the Travis Scott collab. I haven't seen anyone pick apart the Drake line tho. That may have been one of the worst investments by Nike.

Nocta has really been a lackluster for the Nike and considering how big of an artist Drake is, he's never been someone people looked to for style, like never. Definitely wasted opportunity there.

$108 was considered the highest possible outcome by analysts.
Have to imagine this ~$100 range won’t last past earnings.

If you are fired, please do the below analysis on this doc you get: Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)

If you are older than 40 (or 50?) years old, you should get a OWBPA document (it shows ages and job titles of the fired people). MAKE SURE to save it locally immediately!!! If you view it and then leave the page, the document will show as read and you may not be able to access it again (at least that happened to me). You may be able to get GEMINI to help you do the analysis (turn AI against big dirty red!).

My guess it would be eye opening (to a judge:)) to see the breakout/comparison of job title and age for higher paying jobs (engineering and technology) versus job titles and age for lower paying jobs (help desk, admin assistants, etc..). Would not be surprising to see this output - just as an example of what might be uncovered: 50 people that are 55+ years old fired and all in high paying jobs.... and then another 50 people that are 20 to 35 years old and all in lower paying jobs (and MUCH easier to backfill or put a contractor in later). If you just looked at ages, you would say it looks ok. But, if you included wages, AND job titles, you would see a definite bias in the example.

• Intel shares rallied sharply, helped by optimism around AI, foundry improvements, and possible Apple manufacturing talks.
• The stock reportedly rose more than 100% in April and kept gaining in May.
• Barron’s says Intel was Tuesday’s top performer in both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.
• Technical signals look bullish, including strong volume and a possible “golden cross.”
• The analyst expects the stock may pause around $100 before any next move higher.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/intel-moved-from-laggard-to-leader-where-chart-is-heading-e4997799

RBC Economics analyzed Canada's labor market conditions. They anticipate a modest gain of 25,000 jobs in April. This gain should reduce the unemployment rate to 6.6%. Shrinking labor force growth means less employment growth is needed. RBC expects gradual improvements in the job market this year.

https://www.mpamag.com/ca/mortgage-industry/industry-trends/rbc-sees-canadas-jobs-engine-steady-even-as-labour-pool-thins/573824

The 3 benchmarks are AI, S&P500 and cd’s/treasuries for 5 years total return

AI. 100%+
S&P500. 85%
CD’s/Tr. 15%
Waters 0%

Waters is clearly not a growth company, but stagnant.

Why is it above 60s now ?

Are the people who have been hired before, to analyze the company for layoff advice, holding clipboards? If so, saw them at a HQ today.

I only see a few options.

1 - Keep under performing as a smaller, poorly managed Oil & Gas company?
2 - Buy something, incurring more debt?
3 - Sell all or part of Ovintiv now that Anadarko is closed and add in a heavy haricut to reduce headcount?

Good luck everyone.

My analyst su-ks. Who hires these kids?

Just think, it was trading near 170 five years ago. Today it’s trading at 45. Make your own conclusions.

Total opposite of other analysts and certainly no belief in management. Mayo hasn’t been this tough and we know how he feels about BillyBob and his management.

Jefferies initiated coverage on Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE:TFC) with an underperform rating and set a price target of $35.00, representing a significant 23% downside from the current stock price of $45.39. This bearish stance contrasts sharply with the broader analyst consensus of Hold, with price targets ranging from $48.50 to $69.
The firm cited execution risk related to the bank achieving its return on tangible common equity target of 15% in fiscal year 2026, up from 13% in fiscal year 2025. The challenge appears substantial given that Truist’s return on common equity currently stands at just 8% as of the last twelve months. According to InvestingPro analysis, 8 analysts have revised their earnings downwards for the upcoming period, though the stock trades at a P/E ratio of 11.86 and offers a dividend yield of 4.59%.
Jefferies said intensifying competition in the Southeast may hinder loan and deposit growth and add friction to the company’s hiring plans.
The firm noted that even if Truist Financial meets its ROTCE target, it would trail peers at 17% in fiscal year 2027.
Jefferies said the expected performance gap warrants a discounted valuation for the stock.

Lots of analyst predicting it will decline.

What happened at 3pm today? Stock took an instant hit. 1.40 to 1.34 in an hour.
Did lean six sigma or the java ui do this? Is it Fat five beta now? Is there a new jdk ui?

my opinion, complete waste of time. Department trying to justify their wasted "AI" investment.

It reaches 158€ !
Any info on the possible causes ?

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/t/employees/

Not another surprise. Turns out Nielsen was measuring it wrong??

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/413483/nielsen-to-correct-er-i-mean-methodologically-i.html

I'm a natural doer having business results in mind and feel like often times employees at all levels get stuck in overanalyzing minute details that ultimately don't matter toward making a decision. I don't usually have the authority to drop the hammer on these people overanalyzing, but I just want to explode when they go into analysis paralysis. Thankfully I can hide my face on videocam when these people are arguing over minute details or thinking about problems in ways that don't make sense. It's such a morale ki-ler for those of us wanting to get things done.

Chicago, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Tysons Corner, and South Coast Plaza are all top tier locations with lots of foot traffic in the mall and surrounding areas, if these locations are closing, I eventually see all locations going under. Please, if you count on Saks or Neiman's as your main source of income, start looking for a new job, I'm so sad for all the wonderful people I worked in the 24 years I was at Neiman's. Times are changing and not for the better. God bless everyone at Saks and Neiman's stores.

AT&T Debt 2013:
Long-Term Debt (End of 2013): Approximately $69.29 billion.
Total Liabilities (2013): The company had a substantially lower debt burden compared to the post-acquisition peaks

AT&T Debt 2026 (Projected/Early 2026 Data):
Total Debt (End of 2025/Early 2026): $136.1 billion.
Net Debt (End of 2025): $117.4 billion.

California's wine industry is experiencing significant economic and market pressures. U.S. wine revenue and production both declined in 2025. Factors include changing consumer preferences, overproduction, and trade barriers. Several wineries and related businesses have announced closures or layoffs. Constellation Brands and Gallo are among the companies affected by these industry shifts.

https://patch.com/california/healdsburg/why-layoffs-are-spreading-california-wine-country

The recent influx of new hires in Spring, many of whom are early-career professionals, has required significant onboarding support—including mentorship, recognition, plus dedicated workspace and perks—to ensure productivity. In contrast, previous teams delivered results with agility, often relying on strong analytical skills and quick decision-making. It’s worth examining whether current strategies align with long-term business goals, especially given that recent growth may be tied to temporary demand spikes and uncertain future revenue. I had expected the company to maintain a more results-driven, resilient approach.

"Our multi-factor analysis indicates that the time to sell FISV stock might be approaching. We maintain a generally negative outlook on the stock, and a price of $43 could be feasible. We believe there is a near-equal balance of positives and negatives in FISV stock considering its overall Moderate operating performance and financial health. Therefore, despite its Low valuation, this contributes to the perception of the stock as Risky.".......Forbes

https://youtu.be/VlfpfttvatQ?si=I_LgN8bn8RqFvj4U

https://www.uri.edu/news/2026/02/r-i-s-economy-has-disappointing-close-to-year-momentum-dissipated-says-uri-economist/

Thoughts? How is everyone feeling about the ACB numbers?

PE will cash out and sell all real estate and rake in as much profit as they can.