Europe kicks off 2023 with a historic heat wave. At least eight European countries...
Europe kicks off 2023 with a historic heat wave. At least eight European countries have logged their hottest January temperatures on record amid a heat wave encompassing about 15 countries across the Continent. The summerlike temps are causing ski resorts in the northern Alps and French Pyrenees to close. Meteorologists are raising the alarm, calling the weather “truly unprecedented in modern records.” The historically hot winter follows a historically hot summer, as 2022 marked Europe’s warmest ever.
The world’s largest tech trade show, CES, opens to the public today to show off weird, wacky, and occasionally...
The world’s largest tech trade show, CES, opens to the public today to show off weird, wacky, and occasionally pretty useful new devices. More than 3,000 exhibitors and 100,000 attendees are expected to be in Las Vegas this week for the event as it tries to bounce back to its pre-pandemic popularity.
Oil futures rose Thursday, bouncing after suffering a two-day fall to begin 2023 on fears of a global...
Oil futures rose Thursday, bouncing after suffering a two-day fall to begin 2023 on fears of a global economic slowdown and surging COVID cases in China.
Investors were also awaiting official U.S. storage data after figures from an industry trade group were said to show a rise in crude and gasoline inventories last week.
West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery CL00, 0.49%CL.1, 0.49%CLG23, 0.48% rose $1.56, or 2.1%, to $74.40 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
March Brent crudeBRN00, 0.57%BRNH23, 0.62%, the global benchmark, was up $1.66, or 2.2%, at $79.50 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe.
Back on Nymex, February gasoline RBG23, 0.69% rose 1.8% to $2.30 a gallon, while February heating oil HOG23, 1.10% gained 2.9% to $3.058 a gallon.
February natural-gas futuresNGG23, -8.46% dropped 3.4% to $4.029 per million British thermal units.
Amazon confirms more than 18,000 layoffs, far more than originally expected
Amazon.com Inc.’s ...
Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN, -0.79% layoffs will affect more than 18,000 employees, the highest reduction tally revealed in the past year at a major technology company as the industry pares back amid economic uncertainty.
The Seattle-based company in November said that it was beginning layoffs among its corporate workforce, with cuts concentrated on its devices business, recruiting and retail operations. At the time, The Wall Street Journal reported the cuts would total about 10,000 people. Thousands of those cuts began last year.
The rest of the cuts will bring the total number of layoffs to more than 18,000 and will be made over the coming weeks.As of September, Amazon employed 1.5 million people, with a large percentage of them in its warehouses. The layoffs are concentrated in the company’s corporate ranks.
