But the latest figures from the biggest graduate recruiters have been upbeat.
Well, tomorrow sees figures from the biggest of them all, HSBC.
And while Trump has been getting strong support from those giving small donations, he's also been soliciting and receiving five-figure, even six-figure, checks from the "big business" and "big donors" that he trashes.
Still, preliminary figures from the other big tourist destinations in Europe, including France and Italy, suggest that American tourists are growing more scarce everywhere.
Now Oxfordshire Mind has been awarded a six-figure sum from the Big Lottery fund to enable the service to expand to specifically cope with the fallout from the government's welfare reform programme.
Leading shares have bounced back after two days of decline, helped by positive growth figures from the five biggest members of the eurozone.
The figures come from the biggest health research project in the UK, which found that obesity-related diseases and ill-health in women were responsible for 2m days in hospital a year.
Figures from the Trussell Trust, the biggest provider of emergency food aid with more than 400 food banks in the UK, will be seen as evidence that families on low incomes are not sharing in the benefits of economic recovery.
UK house prices rose by 9.5% in 2015, figures from the country's biggest mortgage lender show, in the biggest increase since 2006, before the financial crisis.
House prices dropped by 1.1% in March, figures from the UK's biggest mortgage lender showed, but the annual rate of inflation rose to its highest level since October 2007, suggesting it is too early to dismiss fears of a bubble.
