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Jobless Claims
he numbers of U.S. workers signing up for first-time unemployment benefits is an indicator of the general health of the economy. Track reports of unemployment and discuss the health of our economy.
LONDON (AP) - The unemployment rate in the 16 countries that use the euro held steady at 9.8 percent in October, official figures showed Tuesday. Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the unemployment rate in the eurozone was unchanged from the ...
- Euro-zone Oct. jobless rate steady at 9.8% (marketwatch.com)
- St. Joseph jobless rate dips to 8.1% (stjoenews.net)
(By David Ranii, David.ranii@newsobserver.com) North Carolina's high unemployment rate has stuck the state with $1.4 billion in debt - money that officials don't know how they'll pay back.It gets worse. The debt is still rising. The problem is that with about 500,000 people out of work, the state has more unemployment claims than it can pay. So it has been borrowing from the federal government since February, sometimes as much as $20 million a...
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The day before Thanksgiving brought encouraging news on unemployment. CBS News.com reported "New Jobless Claims Plunge to 466K." Investors.com headlined "Jobless Claims Dive To 466,000." CNN Money.com issued a special report titled "Jobless claims plummet to 14-month low." And the Financial Times included a link to the Calculated Risk blog article "Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decline Sharply."
Such good news, reported widely...
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- Jobless claims plummet (feedburner.com)
MOULTRIE — The latest unemployment numbers for counties are a mixed bag, with some counties showing an increase in joblessness while others saw falling unemployment. In Colquitt County the unemployment rate was 9.4 percent, up from the adjusted 9.1 ...
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- Chicago-area jobless rate jumps to 10.4% (chicagobusiness.com)
- Japan's jobless rate falls to 5.1pc (feedburner.com)
- Jobless rate hits 12.8 percent in Lorain (morningjournal.com)
Zacks.com submits:
This week initial jobless claims for unemployment insurance plunged by 35,000 to 466,000. Actually, considering that last week’s number of initial jobless claims was revised down to 501,000 from 505,000, one could argue that the decline in initial jobless claims was more like 39,000. This brought the four-week moving average of initial jobless claims (a better number to watch due to the weekly volatility of the numbers...
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- Initial jobless claims lowest in about year (washingtontimes.com)
- CORRECT: Initial jobless claims fall to 466,000 (marketwatch.com)
- More good news in employment: Initial jobless claims plunge to ... (blogsearch.google.com)
In a hopeful sign, the number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, dropping below 500,000 for the first time since January.
And consumer spending picked up in October as Americans' incomes grew modestly, while new home sales hit their highest level in over a year — more encouraging signals for the budding economic recovery.
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- US new weekly jobless claims fall to 14-month low (france24.com)
- Stocks rise on drop in jobless claims (dailynews.com)
- Weekly Jobless Claims Drop to 466,000, Lowest Level in Over a Year (freerepublic.com)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. (TGT), Garmin Ltd (GRMN)The day before Thanksgiving is always an unusual one. We had a slew of economic data today and that all propelled shares higher than what the pre-market indications were.The largest figure today was that jobless claims finally broke under the 500K per week mark... Initial Jobless Claims came in at 466,000, under the 495,000 expected by Bloomberg...
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