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Weekly Jobless Claims Show Major Drop in the Army of the Unemployed

Posted: May 23, 2013 at 8:50 am

Weekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics and may offer at least some support for a very weak equity market this ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims at a Five-Year Low

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 9:25 am

The Labor Department's report on weekly jobless claims continues to go against many of the headlines we are seeing elsewhere. Last week brought a drop to 323,000, the lowest weekly ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Offer Hope Ahead of Unemployent and Payrolls Due Friday

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 8:55 am

The Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims report, which is also the last report ahead of Friday's key unemployment and payrolls report. Claims fell by 18,000 ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Brings Very Pleasant Surprise

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 8:40 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Thursday's reading amounted to a good change from the prior week, as the weekly claims fell by ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Heat Back Up, Unemployment Next?

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 8:50 am

The U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims report. After last week's surprise drop of a whopping 42,000 before revisions, the jobless claims came in at 352,000 for ...
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Good Jobless Claims Meet Tame Import/Export Inflation

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 8:42 am

Weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department had shown three consecutive increases, but that is now being undone. The weekly claims fell by a sharp 42,000, from 388,000 down to ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Report Sets Up Weaker Payrolls Expectations

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 8:52 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its final report ahead of Friday's key Employment Situation report. Weekly jobless claims rose handily and well above expectations. Last week's figure rose ...
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Jobless Claims Trump Revised GDP Growth

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 9:00 am

Stocks are fighting to get into positive territory on Thursday, ahead of a long three-day weekend in celebration of Easter. We have two key reports that investors are watching closely: ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims May Seem Dull, but Still Extremely Low

Posted: March 21, 2013 at 8:40 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest read on weekly jobless claims. This likely was not fully available to the Federal Reserve for its announcement yesterday, and with the markets ...
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Producer Prices and Weekly Jobless Claims Support the Market Rally Again

Posted: March 14, 2013 at 8:50 am

Two bits of data were released from the Labor Department today. Weekly jobless claims is a live reading, and producer prices measuring wholesale inflation is a February reading. With the ...
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Key Jobs Data Released Ahead of Unemployment on Friday

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 9:15 am

This morning brought on several key economic releases ahead of the key Friday jobs number and unemployment data from the Labor Department. The Challenger Job Cut Report came in at ...
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Surprises in Weekly Jobless Claims and Core Inflation

Posted: February 21, 2013 at 9:10 am

The Labor Department has two key reports out this Thursday. We have seen a rise in the weekly jobless claims. Consumer prices also ticked higher. Weekly jobless claims rose by ...
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Continuing Jobless Claims, the Army of Unemployed, Hits Lowest Level Since Before Recession

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 9:10 am

The U.S. Labor Department may have given a disappointing uptick in the unemployment rate two weeks ago, but the weekly jobless claims picture is coming out in a different light ...
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Labor Woes: Weekly Claims vs. Productivity and Labor Costs

Posted: February 7, 2013 at 8:45 am

We had two reports on the labor situation in America this Thursday. The weekly jobless claims is of course very current, while the report on worker productivity and unit labor ...
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Personal Income, Employment Costs and Weekly Jobless Claims All Skew Unemployment Expectations

Posted: January 31, 2013 at 8:55 am

Thursday brought on a slew of economic data ahead of Friday's key unemployment and nonfarm payrolls data. The Labor Department and jobs watchers have some good news and some bad news ...
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