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Daimler plans additional 10,000 jobs cuts

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Bloomberg Daimler AG’s Chief Executive Officer Ola Kaellenius plans a new cost savings program and looks to cut an additional 10,000 jobs through 2025, magazine Automobilwoche reported citing unidentified company sources. The carmaker aims to outsource information technology services and cut positions in research and development, according to the magazine. The company previously announced in November a plan to reduce ...

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Wirecard, once Germany’s pride, turns national embarrassment

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Bloomberg The company once hyped as the future of German finance has become a symbol of national embarrassment. After promising to shake up the world of payments, Wirecard AG saw its stock collapse and its chief executive officer resign after $2.1 billion, or about a quarter of its balance sheet, went missing. That was a bombshell for Germany’s establishment after ...

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Bond market eyes gathering crowds for clues on path of rates

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Bloomberg As social-distancing measures are relaxed across the US, Wall Street is searching in some unconventional places for clues about where interest-rate markets are headed. The rally in US Treasuries buckled to risk-on sentiment earlier this month on signs of progress in the reopening of businesses around the country and a turnaround in economic data. But interspersed with those announcements ...

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