The number of newly-laid off workers jumped unexpectedly to 471,000 last week, PNC Financial chief economist Stuart Hoffman says the data point to continued layoffs and weak job creation in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04