Ye dukh kaha khatam nahi hota (Why doesn't this pain end)

If you follow layoffs.fyi, you can see the number of layoffs happened in Jan 24 is closed to Mar 23. It’s almost been 1.5 yrs since layoffs trend started. UK & Japan went to recession tomorrow.

There is a saying that "when there is greed be fearfull and when everyone is fearfull be greedy". Now every tom dick and harry is talking about investing in market and earning great returns. Are we in a bubble ? There is no easy money in markets but currently u will get lot of advice on which stocks to buy from everywhere. What should one do? Pause SIP , remove all money from stocks park it in Liquid fund, FD, bonds, do nothing? Thoughts

I too feel, more pain is pending

- Equity benchmark indices declined after hitting fresh record highs, with Sensex dropping over 900 points, dragged by M&M and IT stocks. - Sensex hit a new all-time high of 80,481.36 during opening trade but tumbled 915.88 points to 79,435.76 by late morning. - Nifty also hit a fresh lifetime high but slumped all gains, declining 291.4 points to 24,141.80. - Major laggards included Mahindra & Mahindra, HCL Technologies, TCS, Tata Steel, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and State Bank of India. - Factors behind the fall include Fed Chair Jerome Powell's comments on rate cuts, across-the-board sell-offs, and technical market challenges.

When the market will stable , when this layoff period will go away ? Any thought 🤔

Possible reasons: 1. The Bank of England cut interest rates for the first time since 2020 yesterday. 2. The Gulf region is on the brink of war. 3. Unemployment rates are all time high in west 4. Or New parliament building mein pani bhar gya 😁😭

Talked to the son of my Dad's friend recently. Brilliant kid has a good GPA from IIIT-H + 2 research internships and 1 summer internship at good companies. He still can't find a "good" company to get into. (Side Note: "good" implies a high paying job relative to last couple of years) Apparently, most of his friends in other colleges are in the same boat. Massive pay correction has happened. The undergoing rationale is that companies hired Class of 2022 with no restraint because the demand was really strong during their placement season in 2021. This appears to be directly correlated with quantitative easing in the US and a low interest rate environment that was conducive to fundraising for several Series A+ startups. By the time Class of 2022 entered the market, everything changed and they felt some short term change. However, Class of 2023 is having a much tougher time. They are shoved into the job market in a time where demand is low and they are competing with kids who graduated last year. Ongoing consensus appears to be that a huge chunk of their batchmates are going to get their Masters abroad. Their hope is that by the time they graduate out of grad school, the economy will pick up and demand will be strong while they're poised to take advantage of that with bump up credentials. Unfortunately, this also implies that many of them will end up in the CPT-OPT-H1B-Green Card hell. This is really a tough spot to be in.

Was speaking with 2 people I know who work at Amazon and Meta respectively. They both shared that spending on recruitment is going back up, because their orgs believe that by mid 2024, market will be back in full swing. Hoping this is true. Good times are back soon, if this ends up being. What do you guys feel? Anyone working at a large company and has similar internal projections that your org has made?