by Equity markets continued their uneven climb upward this 12 months with the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the S&P 500, which has a hefty expertise element, leaping 1.8% and 1.1%, respectively, whilst fourth quarter earnings continued to tilt damaging and a rising variety of companies introduced layoffs in anticipation of an financial contraction. Since the beginning of the 12 months, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce and extra lately IBM have introduced job cuts.
