FirstFT: Goldman Sachs plans extra job cuts

Goldman Sachs is getting ready to impose one other spherical of job cuts on workers deemed to be the worst performers, folks conversant in the matter have advised the Monetary Instances.

The deliberate transfer, which may begin subsequent month, is a part of an annual train that sometimes leads to between 1 per cent and 5 per cent of company-wide workers dropping their jobs.

Goldman is concentrating on a quantity on the decrease finish of that vary, the folks mentioned, at components of its core funding banking and buying and selling companies. A 1 per cent lower in Goldman’s complete headcount, which incorporates asset and wealth administration in addition to operational roles, would equal about 440 jobs.

Managers throughout Goldman have drawn up lists of workers who could possibly be dismissed. That is what we all know thus far concerning the deliberate cuts.

Right here’s what else I’m conserving tabs on right this moment and over the weekend:

• G20 summit: India’s prime minister Narendra Modi will host a bilateral assembly with US president Joe Biden forward of the beginning of the G20 summit in New Delhi tomorrow.

• Mexico-Colombia relations: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador visits Colombia to satisfy his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro.

• Tennis: The ladies’s and males’s ultimate of the US Open might be held in New York on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

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5 extra high tales

1. State workers throughout China, from nuclear energy crops to far-flung hospitals, have been advised in current weeks to cease utilizing Apple iPhones as a part of a Beijing-led pushback in opposition to the US tech group. Investor considerations concerning the curbs, which haven’t been confirmed by the federal government in Beijing, have knocked $200bn off Apple’s market valuation previously two days.

2. Janet Yellen has mentioned she doesn’t count on the slowdown in China to have a “very vital direct influence on the USA”. The US Treasury secretary, who was talking earlier right this moment in New Delhi forward of the beginning of the G20 summit, added that China had “fairly a little bit of coverage house” to handle to the financial slowdown. The renminbi, in the meantime, continued its slide in opposition to the greenback on Friday.

3. Former FTX government Ryan Salame has pleaded responsible to felony costs associated to the collapse of the cryptocurrency change. He’s the fourth former FTX government to chop a take care of prosecutors, additional isolating founder Sam Bankman-Fried lower than a month earlier than his trial is about to start. Right here’s our report on the court docket listening to.

4. A former local weather scientist and a self-made businesswoman will contest Mexico’s presidential election subsequent yr after the ruling Morena social gathering selected former Mexico Metropolis mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate. Sheinbaum’s choice pits her in opposition to Xóchitl Gálvez, chief of the free-market Nationwide Motion social gathering, and means Mexico is more likely to have its first feminine chief in its 200-year historical past after the June 2024 ballot. Right here’s extra on the candidates.

5. Germany is pushing the EU to postpone tariffs on electrical automobile gross sales with the UK, backing calls by Rishi Sunak’s authorities for a three-year delay to the duties. The bloc is about to impose 10 per cent levies on EVs shipped throughout the Channel from January if they’ve batteries made outdoors Europe. Right here’s why Berlin has shifted its stance.

• Go deeper: After months of fruitless lobbying to discourage Chinese language EV imports, Europe’s carmakers are getting ready to face down competitors from their latest rivals.

Immediately’s massive learn

A renewed effort by Saudi Arabia and Russia this week to push the worth of oil in direction of $100 a barrel threatens to turn out to be one other headache for Joe Biden as he places his file on the US economic system — and thwarting inflation — on the centre of his re-election bid. What function may Riyadh play in a good US election?

We’re additionally studying . . . 

Chart of the day

The euro is heading in the right direction for an eighth straight week of losses in opposition to the greenback as considerations develop that the eurozone economic system is heading for a downturn. In distinction, the US is proving extra resilient than buyers had anticipated, with the newest labour market information launched yesterday indicating jobless claims unexpectedly fell. What subsequent for the euro?

Take a break from the information

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Further contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm