Krystal Hur
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61 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
Krystal Hur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In 2020 and 2021, companies expanded their workforces and gave big raises to employees to ensure they had enough skilled workers.
Now, they're worried about bloated costs.
Amazon said Wednesday that it would lay off an additional 16,000 corporate employees after laying off 14,000 workers in the fall.
Combined, those cuts amount to roughly 10% of Amazon's corporate workforce.
On Tuesday, UPS said it expected to slash 30,000 jobs this year, on top of 48,000 cuts last year.
That same day, Pinterest said it planned to shrink its workforce by up to 15%.
For the week, Amazon shares rose less than 0.1%, UPS lost 1.6%, and Pinterest tumbled around 15%.
GameStop is looking to make big moves.
Shares of the video game retailer have tumbled around 80% since 2021, when the retailer was the king of meme stocks.
GameStop's chief executive, Ryan Cohen, says that he has a plan to turn that around.
He told the Wall Street Journal in an interview that he wants to turn the $11 billion company into one worth $100 billion that does more than just sell video games and collectibles.
How is he going to do that?
By eyeing a major acquisition of a publicly traded company, likely one in the consumer or retail industry.
Michael Burry, the investor played by Christian Bale in the film The Big Short, is cheering him on.
He's a GameStop shareholder and said in his newsletter earlier this week he bought more stock recently and sees upside in the stock if Cohen spends $10 billion or more to acquire a quality business.
GameStop shares reached a high of around $121 five years ago this week.
They closed at about $24 Friday, up 4% for the week.
And now you know what's news in markets this week.
Today's show was produced by Michael LaValle with supervising producer Melanie Roy and Jana Herron.
I'm Crystal Her.
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