INVENTORY FULL

Reuters

GE to move U.S. jobs overseas in fight over export credits

Yahoo Finance

Hewlett-Packard expects to cut up to 30,000 workers, save $2 billion in restructuring

Recode.net

Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership

Daily Press

Newport News Shipbuilding lays off 480, more to come in 2016

Aljazeera

US Virgin Islands sues Hess over shuttered refinery

Poynter

Big cuts coming to L.A. Times, likely other Tribune papers amid tumult

Reuters

Exclusive: Deutsche Bank to cut workforce by a quarter - sources

Bethesda

Lockheed Martin to Lay Off 500 Workers - Update

SiliconeBeat

Seagate to lay off 1,050 workers – 100 in valley

Daily Times

QVC will lay off 147 at Chesco distribution center

San Diego Reader

Layoff czar takes over Union-Tribune

The Hawk Eye

CNH's Burlington plant faces 4Q layoffs

Cedar Valley Business

UPDATE: Shell Rock manufacturer announces layoffs

Computerworld

California delays the backlash over IT layoffs

Source

Furloughs grow as Union Pacific battles drop in demand

Independent Record

Deer Lodge sawmill lays off 50 workers

Oak Ridger

145 layoffs reported

According to many of the stories collected here, things aren't selling so well. I finally had to stop collecting. There were even layoffs in Canada.

Many of the stories list "market conditions" as the primary reason for their cutbacks.

Newspapers are facing a more permanent evolution as they lose their readers to death by natural causes from old age, and migration to the Internet.

The price of cut lumber is dropping due to a surplus of construction materials. This indicates a potential slow-down in construction.

Even QVC is cutting workers at a distribution center in Pennsylvania, which may be an economic indicator of what's going in within the distribution range of that center.

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