Mexican president ascribes global market jitters to dismal U.S. unemployment figures

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday blamed the drop in global markets on investor nervousness caused by the release of dismal employment figures in the United States.

"At the end of last week, like on Thursday, a situation of instability began, fundamentally attributed to data provided about the growth of unemployment in the United States," Lopez Obrador told a