Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Layoff Watch: More Than One-Third Of Layoffs At One Big Bank May Hit NYC

More than one-third of job cuts at Morgan Stanley will likely hit workers in New York City.

Nearly 600 of the 1,600 job cuts that Morgan Stanley announced last month will probably come from New York City, according to a regulatory filing cited by Bloomberg. The Morgan Stanley layoffs are just one part of a wider trend; Wall Street firms have said they will eliminate more than 200,000 jobs around the world this year. Thomas DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller estimated earlier this year that 10,000 New York-based employees of the securities industry will lose their jobs by 2012, according to The New York Times…

Find out more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/27/wall-street-layoffs-morgan-stanley_n_1171700.html?ref=business

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