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MontrealLightspeed Commerce Inc. says 250 roles will be impacted as the company lays off staff and opts to not fill some vacancies. Lightspeed has made several staffing cuts over the last few yearsTara Deschamps · The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 13, 2026 8:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 14Listen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Lightspeed Commerce Inc. CEO Dax Dasilva in May 2024. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)Lightspeed Commerce Inc. says 250 roles will be impacted as the company lays off staff and opts to not fill some vacancies. The Montreal-based software business says the cuts are meant to simplify its operations and create room to reinvest in customer growth and product innovations. Spokesperson Stephanie Princivil did not answer questions about what areas of the company the layoffs and removal of vacancies targeted but said in an email that Lightspeed will provide more information when it reports quarterly earnings next month.

Lightspeed Commerce Inc. says 250 roles will be impacted as the company lays off staff and opts to not fill some vacancies.

The S&P 500 lost nearly 2% last week, its biggest weekly decline since late June. The Nasdaq fell 4.5%, snapping a four-week winning streak.

China was once the top holder of U. S. Treasuries but has been shedding its massive stockpile for years, fueling fears of de-dollarization, but official data may not fully capture Beijing’s actual portfolio. The decline began in earnest around 2021, but as recently as April 2022, China still held $1 trillion in Treasury securities. U. S. data on Friday show that’s been whittled down to just $591 billion as of August, the lowest in 18 years and down from $700 billion a year earlier.

If you’ve ever pulled a fistful of leaves out of a pool pump basket, you already understand the only thing that went wrong at Africa’s only nuclear plant in August. Stuff gets sucked toward the pump, stuff piles up on the screen, the flow drops, and eventually the pump quits. Now swap the pool for the South Atlantic, swap the leaves for a mass of dead sardines, and swap your pump for one that’s keeping a 930-megawatt reactor cool. That’s pretty much what happened at Koeberg, which sits on the coast about 17 miles north of Cape Town. On Friday, August 21, Eskom, the state utility that runs the place, cut Unit 1 back to 50 percent. A cooling pump had shut itself off because the seawater intake was packed with what Eskom called “marine material,” which turned out to be fish. Lots of fish.