Good news on employment front 

Although jobs cuts in December fell 10 percent to 45,094, 2009 was still the heaviest year of downsizing since 2002. The fifth consecutive month of declines in layoffs, December’s job cuts were also the fewest since December 2007, when there were 44,416 layoffs. John A. Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm, [...] [...]