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Kmart, Sears and J.C. Penney almost certainly had poor fourth quarters. Most likely, none of them can afford to keep store counts at current levels.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that chemicals giants DuPont and Dow Chemical may merge.
Despite a transformation that already is underway, more layoffs are headed to Schlumberger's workforce.
Challenger Gray reports that Hewlett-Packard is the company that has laid off the most people this year.
Sprint, according to a number of media sources, will cut annual expenses by $2.5 billion a year. Presumably the brunt of the restructuring will be layoffs.
Chevron reported third-quarter 2015 results and announced layoffs before markets opened Friday morning.
3M reported mixed third-quarter 2015 results and announced layoffs before markets opened Thursday morning.
Biogen reported better-than-expected third-quarter financial results Wednesday before the market opened.
Big Oil is now engaged in cost-cutting operations with mass layoffs and project cutbacks. This could start a positive feedback loop for both oil and oil stocks.
While cutting jobs is not the only manner in which a company improves margins, it may be the only one that IBM has.
In one of his first moves as the permanent Twitter chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey is laying off a few hundred employees.
Wal-Mart has announced that 450 home office staff will lose their jobs in order to make the retailer "more nimble organization,"
Whole Foods Market shook up the markets Monday morning when it announced that it would be cutting 1,500 jobs within the next two months.
Caterpillar's job cuts of 10,000 workers are a reminder that oil patch and infrastructure companies are in rising trouble.
Mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial announced Thursday that the company will eliminate about 300 jobs at its Waterloo, Iowa, residential loan service center.