Applications for US unemployment benefits fell last week to their lowest since May as southeastern states continued to ...

The numbers: The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits surged ... This is the highest level of initial claims since early August 2023. Economists polled by the Wall Street ...

This week's jobless claims dropped by 15,000 to 227,000, beating analysts' expectations of 241,000. A job seeker looks at a job listing board at the East Bay Career Center February 2, 2006 in ...

Businesses furloughed and laid off record numbers of workers, and as a result, jobless claims skyrocketed to record highs. This phenomenon can be observed in the graph below from FRED, in which ...

Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week in a sign that turnover in the labor market remains low. New data from the Department of Labor showed 227,000 initial jobless claims were filed in ...

In the most recent update, jobless claims have fallen despite constant ... With inflation at 7.7% for the year ending in October, it's clear that we're far from the 2% target.

Initial jobless claims rose last week to levels not seen since August 2023. The data exceeded economist expectations after the September jobs report showed that employers continued to add jobs.

The numbers: One week after hitting the highest level in more than a year, initial jobless claims retreated by 19,000 to 241,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists polled by the Wall ...

The selloff in tech stocks comes as no surprise to those who anticipated the sequential decline in profits growth earlier ...

(Graph at St. Louis FRED) Against very strong comparisons last year, both measures of new jobless claims turned slightly higher YoY two weeks ago and so changed from positive to neutral.

Last week, the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.2%, bringing annual inflation to 2.4%, both 0.1 percentage points higher than expected. Initial unemployment claims also unexpectedly ...

A continued downward move in volatility levels persisted on Thursday as Wall Street's benchmark averages (COMP:IND) (SP500) ...