Layoff announcements ballooned in January.

Low hire, low fire. That's been sort of the buzz phrase around the job market recently as we've seen it weakening. And we got some new data on that today that shows maybe firings are going up a little bit.Challenger grain Christmas says that US companies announced the highest number of job cuts in a January going back to the financial crisis to 2009. Plans to bring on new workers was also the lowest since a January going back to 2009. We're talking about about 108,000 job cuts announced.Three companies acco ...