Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Layoff Watch '12: Top Firm To Axe 1900; Meredith Whitney Predicts 50K Total Wall Street Bloodbath



Deutsche Bank is laying off 1900 people. 1500 of them are in the investment bank.

From BusinessInsider: This news comes as Meredith Whitney's been chatting with Tom Keene on Bloomberg TV this morning, and just as she started explaining why she thought Wall Street's big banks would initiate massive layoffs (50,000, actually).

Deutsche Bank's stock is shooting up, according to Bloomberg.  That makes sense according to Whitney's thesis as she explained it to Maria Bartiromo last week— the market will reward banks that shrink their staff and their business…


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/deutsche-bank-layoffs-2012-7#ixzz22CnGu0xg

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