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The market should recover its poise within the next few days, says Fundstrat’s Tom Lee.
📈 Follow our live markets data and coverage. Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel, a cheerleader for staying invested as the 1990s bull market bubbled higher, made a surprising argument at the time. The boom-and-bust Nifty Fifty stocks of the early 1970s, long trotted out as a cautionary tale of falling in love with one group, weren’t so bad.
US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) sink in Friday trading, the Nasdaq Composite leading losses and closing over 1,100 points lower (4.18%). The market is reacting to May's overwhelmingly positive labor data — 172,000 jobs added the US economy vs. estimates of 88,000 — raising investor concerns that the Federal Reserve may be inclined to hike interest rates. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre breaks down the day's biggest market moves.
The shift to AI is creating an uneven tech job market, driving major cuts even as overall hiring ticks up and in-demand skills evolve.
Layoff notifications have long included wording about tough decisions in challenging times. Now, they're also increasingly nodding at how automation is reshaping workforces and companies' priorities.
Investing.com -- Here are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week.
Squaring AI-spurred layoff announcements with the available data on how companies have — and haven't — changed their workforces in the aggregate paints a more complicated picture of both the US labor market and AI's role in reshaping it.
Cisco is positioning itself as one of the companies built to win from the artificial intelligence boom. But that shift is bringing pain for workers. Despite a record quarter, the tech giant is reducing thousands of jobs as part of a broader restructuring tied to where it sees future growth. ...
AI is rarely the sole reason companies cite when taking layoffs, with most still pointing to wider corporate restructuring or macroeconomic headwinds. On Wednesday, Cisco Systems announced plans to cut under 4,000 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce. The announcement arrived the same day the tech giant unveiled record revenue for its third fiscal quarter, amid soaring demand for its AI tools and infrastructure.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), one of the older big tech companies in America, said in its earnings announcement that it would cut 4,000 jobs as it moves its businesses toward AI. Cisco calls itself “The critical infrastructure for the AI era.” That is a way to drive a stock up without really saying much. Cisco’s results ... AI Causes Another 4,000 Layoffs
Investing.com -- Cisco Systems on Wednesday said that it was restructuring its business to focus on growth areas, including AI after it posted record revenue in its third quarter earnings, sending its shares up 11% in extended trading.
Markets enter a potentially pivotal week as geopolitical developments dominate with both U.S.-Iran negotiations and a highly anticipated Trump-Xi summit creating binary outcomes that could dramatically shift market dynamics.
