DEBORAH AMOS, host: Business news begins with a rocky start for global markets.</s>DEBORAH AMOS, host: The week is off on a nervous note. Stock prices in Asia and Europe are lower. Some European countries are still struggling to contain their financial crisis. Over the weekend, Hungarian officials sounded the alarm, though today, they're insisting their economy is not as bad as Greece.</s>DEBORAH AMOS, host: Global markets are still unnerved by the sharp drop in U.S. markets on Friday, which followed the release of a disappointing report on U.S. unemployment. And Bloomberg News reports today that economists have begun lowering their forecasts for economic growth for the first time since the recovery began around the middle of last year.
International stock markets tumbled Monday, dragged down by weak U.S. employment figures and fresh fears that Europe's debt crisis is spreading to Hungary.