Many investors view this decline as a sign of the economy's underlying strength and are putting more money into Brazil.

But fundamentally, a lot of what happened in the first 50 years is the underlying strength.

"It all speaks to the underlying strength of the media economy."

It would be one thing if we were going into debt to solve these problems that affect our underlying national strength.

This gives your messages a structure and thus an underlying strength.

"But the underlying strength of New York is fabulous," he added.

"Just goes to show the underlying strength of the good old American economy", the mantra went.

The economy has enough underlying strength to weather the crisis, many here contend.

The new unemployment data provided mixed signals about the economy's underlying strength.

But analysts said the overall gain in January masked underlying strength.