All of this was not factored into last week’s unemployment numbers:

• DHL to cut 13,000 jobs
• American Express to cut 7,000 jobs and Bank of America to cut 7,500 Jobs
• GM and Ford 5,600 jobs cut
• Whirlpool to cut another 3,000 jobs
• Yahoo to cut 1,000 Jobs
• Hewlett Packard Announces 24,000 Job Cuts
• UBS to cut 9,000 Jobs
• Fidelity to cut nearly 1,300 jobs this month
• Dana to cut 2,000 jobs and close plants
• Dollar Thrifty Automotive to cut 400 jobs
• AMD slashes 500 more jobs
• Airline Aer Lingus to cut 1,500 jobs, workers to strike
• Chrysler to cut 4,300 Jobs
• Circuit City to cut 6,800 jobs and close stores
• Xerox to cut 3,000 Jobs
• Atlantic City’s Borgata lays off 400 workers
• Motorola to cut 3,000 jobs
• Nortel to cut 3,000 jobs
• EA Games to cut 6% or 600 jobs
• Sun Microsystems to cut jobs (unknown number)

the list goes on and on…..