By Bruce Sands
You are grossly mistaken if you think times are changing for the better. Almost all the industrial sectors in America are gearing the brunt of the present economic crisis. And this adds to the further deterioration of the financial market. The ever increasing level of job cuts which is plaguing the employment market is a reflection of the depressing times.
In an attempt to stabilize the financial condition, Citigroup Inc, Merrill Lynch & Co and Wachovia Corp recently announced around 12,400 job cuts. The number of pink slips issued will be proportional to the rise in losses. Till date, the U.S financial services sector has suffered 36,000 job cuts. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., a premier job placement consultancy provides the data.
The profound impact of these cuts on New York City is easily understandable, since its fortunes are directly linked with the Wall Street. When these heavily paid bankers and traders begin to lose their jobs, everything would stand to experience the crash. The Manhattan real estate prices will get affected. So also the high end restaurants and the private car services. Even the security industry will face a crash. This particular industry depends on over 35% of the salary and wages earned in the city. With the bankers and brokers losing out on their base salaries of around $200,000 nothing will be left to imagination.
Take a look at this report published on Thursday. Merrill, the world’s largest brokerage, announced ‘$9.7 billion in write-downs, on top of $25 billion taken in the second half of last year’. After slashing over 1,100 positions Merrill has planned to further cut 2900 jobs. The fourth largest U.S. bank Wachovia has plans to cut down 500 jobs from its investment banking and the corporate division.
So long the global financial institutions have sustained over $200 billion write downs and credit related losses. Thanks to the U.S. housing market which has been acting as the principle catalyst.
Banks have been expecting a positive turnaround for quite sometime. But market analysts consider it to be no less than wishful thinking. With the entire U.S. financial service sector which mostly comprise of commercial banks announcing a record 153,105 job cuts in 2007, only the worse can be expected.
The recent projections from the analysts at JP Morgan concerning the sub prime mortgage crisis and global credit crunch are actually a redouble of their previous estimates.
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