Washington Examiner (August 2)
“Yellow Freight, one of the oldest trucking companies in America…hit the end of the road Friday” when both union and nonunion workers were laid off. A bankruptcy filing appears imminent. “While the Teamsters-UPS agreement to avert a strike has lessened what could have been a disastrous economic event, Yellow’s potential insolvency marks one of the biggest collapses in jobs in the U.S. trucking industry” and could still lead to “economic uncertainty.”
Tags: Agreement, Avert, Bankruptcy, Collapses, Disastrous, Insolvency, Jobs, Laid-off, Nonunion, Strike, Teamsters, Trucking, U.S., Union, UPS, Workers, Yellow Freight
Financial Times (May 3)
“The trio of bank failures since March has cast a pall over KPMG’s lucrative business as the largest auditor of the US banking sector.” SVB, Signature and First Republic all “had one thing in common: KPMG” and the auditor will be facing “scrutiny in aftermath of their collapses.”
Tags: Aftermath, Auditor, Bank failures, Banking sector, Collapses, First Republic, KPMG, Lucrative, Pall, Scrutiny, Signature, SVB, U.S.
