Whatever Payroll Numbers Show Tomorrow...

[cieldumort]

The trend over the past several weeks to months has increasingly been one of flashing orange to red about employment prospects worldwide, including - not excluding - the largest economies, like the United States, heading into the new year.
Recession 2016 Leading Indicator - Mass Layoffs
The following partial list, compiled by Chris Marenson over at

Comments

[nebris]

feh

[cieldumort]

I find it interesting that both Walmart & Macy's are conducting mass layoffs.

[ext_3510445]

This can't be good either

[ext_3510445]

You know looking at this list it looks like a lot of the socalled big companies are on it. You would think that they would be the ones to fire last?

[robbied90]

I'm not completely surprised by the energy or technology companies cutting jobs to be honest. Energy companies speaks for itself that's obviously due to the oil prices. I also read at the beginning of the year that the global spend on technology is expected to fall by 2% this year.