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Close Brothers: Layoffs
Close Brothers is cutting around 600 jobs to reduce costs amid mounting motor finance bills
Source: Evening Standard Business
The leadership read
Workforce moves like this mark the contracting side of the sector hiring conditions.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 98.6 (Neutral), down 1.4 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow steady (-1.1pts).
Close Brothers: 1 signal in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow.
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