Initial Jobless Claims Beats; Continuing Claims Rise For 3rd Week

Europe is collapsing, contagion is spreading, US firms are admitting “it’s not the weather”… but initial jobless claims news is great so BFTD? After 5 weeks of misses, initial claims beat and fell to 304k – just shy of the record low for the cycle. Continuing claims rose though, missing expectations for the 2nd week in a row – this is the first 3-weeks-in-a-row rise since Feb.

Initial claims…

 

Continuing Claims rise for 3rd week in a row…

 

Chart: Bloomberg




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