German Economy Showing Signs Of Recovery

DUISBURG, GERMANY - JANUARY 13: A worker watches as sparks fly from molten iron heated to approximately 1480 degrees Celsius flowing from a blast furnace at the ThyssenKrupp steelworks on January 13, 2010 in Duisburg, Germany. Recent economic data, including better-than-expected unemployment figures and a positive trend in manufacturing orders in the last quarter, are giving economists hope that the German economy is recovering faster than expected from the effects of the global financial crisis. ThyssenKrupp is Germany's biggest steel producer and is building new mills in Brazil and Alabama. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)