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Tesla CEO Elon Musk would ‘be silly’ to slash prices again, analyst says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk would ‘be silly’ to slash prices again, analyst says

Investors are hoping Tesla’s (TSLA) price-cutting ways have run their course for 2023. “Based on the statement that [Elon Musk] made on the fourth quarter earnings call, saying that his demand is 2x his supply, you’d be silly to cut price,” BofA analyst John Murphy on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You would just be eating into your profitability and not achieving any more incremental volume in the near term.” Earlier this month, Tesla cut the Model 3 base version by $3,000 to $43,990. The… Source link

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Warner Bros. Discovery expected to slash jobs, restructure HBO Max as earnings loom

Warner Bros. Discovery expected to slash jobs, restructure HBO Max as earnings loom

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has a lot of questions to answer ahead of its earnings report on Thursday. The three-month-old streaming conglomerate, which is set to report its first quarterly earnings since the $43 billion merger, plans to lay off 70% of its development business, according to The Wrap, which cited “multiple insiders.” The news has fueled speculation when it comes to the future of HBO Max with sources telling The Wrap that CEO David Zaslav, known for his cost-cutting leadership… Source link

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JPMorgan’s mortgage business to slash workforce as housing market cools

JPMorgan’s mortgage business to slash workforce as housing market cools

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is slashing jobs in its home-lending division as rising mortgage rates and inflation drive a slowdown in the housing market. The bank is expected to lay off or reassign more than 1,000 employees, Bloomberg News first reported on Wednesday. Bloomberg’s report indicated “about half” of these impacted workers will be moved to different departments within the bank. “Our staffing decision this week was a result of cyclical changes in the mortgage market,” a JPMorgan… Source link

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Google to slash amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace- CNBC

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo Sept 26 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google will take a smaller cut when customers buy software from other vendors on its cloud marketplace, CNBC reported on Sunday. The Google Cloud Platform is cutting its percentage revenue share to 3% from 20%, CNBC said, citing a person familiar with the matter. https://cnb.cx/2XZp7ep “Our goal… Source link

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Yahoo Japan to slash 40% of its Tokyo office space

TOKYO — Yahoo Japan will vacate 40% of its Tokyo office space by November as it expects the COVID-necessitated work-from-home trend to gain permanence. The subsidiary of SoftBank-backed Z Holdings will return about 30,000 sq. meters, more than four soccer fields worth, of office space, when leases expire. It will empty out seven of 20 floors at its Kioi Tower headquarters, in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and all five floors that it has in Akasaka K Tower, in Minato Ward. Only about 10% of Yahoo’s… Source link

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