Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Layoffs Watch ’12: Goldman Sachs




According to a WSJ report Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s profit shrank 11% in the second quarter, and the securities firm launched a new wave of cost cutting to offset chronically weak returns from trading and investment banking.

David A. Viniar, Goldman's chief financial officer, said the latest round of belt-tightening by the New York company might include job losses for "a couple of hundred people." By year end, Goldman will reduce total expenses by $500 million on top of about $1.4 billion in cuts since last spring.

As of June 30, Goldman had 32,300 employees, down 9% from a year earlier and a 17% decline ...

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