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Meta is cutting roughly ten percent of its global workforce, eliminating around eight thousand roles with a heavy focus on managerial layers. Zuckerberg is simultaneously redeploying more than seven thousand employees toward artificial intelligence initiatives, signaling a hard pivot in how the company intends to allocate human capital going forward.
Turning to Asia, Samsung Electronics is facing a significant labor disruption as more than forty-seven thousand workers are set to walk off the job Thursday after wage negotiations collapsed. South Korean media reports the strike is imminent, and shares have already moved lower in response — a reminder that labor risk can hit even the world's largest chipmakers at a moment's notice.
Broader regional pressure is compounding that picture, with Indian equities expected to drift lower at the open after United States Treasury yields climbed to multi-year highs. Growing anxiety around inflation and the trajectory of interest rates is keeping emerging market investors defensive, and that bond market unease is rippling from Mumbai to Sydney, where the ASX two hundred has extended losses through midday trading.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
