Wall Street is no longer rewarding job-cut announcements ...
Dec 16, 2025 · These average excess returns are minus 7%. The equity market has responded negatively to recent layoff announcements, even for companies that specifically cited restructuring as …
Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs - Slashdot
1 day ago · The traditional Wall Street playbook held that layoffs tied to strategic restructuring would boost stock prices, while cuts driven by declining sales would hurt them. That distinction appears to …
Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs ...
8 hours ago · Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs (fortune.com) The traditional Wall Street playbook held that layoffs tied to strategic restructuring would boost stock prices, while cuts …
Markets No Longer Reward Layoffs — Investors See Them as a ...
Dec 17, 2025 · These average excess returns are minus 7%. The equity market has responded negatively to recent layoff announcements, even for companies that specifically cited restructuring as …
Is AI really killing finance and banking jobs? Wall Street’s ...
4 days ago · Despite Wall Street making headlines for its relentless string of layoffs this year, headcounts across banking and finance have actually been relatively steady.
Record profits, layoffs: Wall Street cheers as workers fear
Sep 4, 2025 · Wall Street keeps rewarding companies that adopt AI while trimming, automating, and streamlining. Meanwhile, for workers, the era of record profits feels more like an era of record precarity.
Layoffs Used To Lift Stocks—Now They Knock Them Down, Goldman ...
19 hours ago · Goldman Sachs analysts have noticed a shift in investor response to layoff announcements. Stocks now decline by 2% on average.