Sentences with phrase «initial jobless claims at»

The Department of Labor reported that Initial jobless claims at 367,000 increased 8,000 from the prior week's unrevised figure.

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There has been a fairly sustained increase in job creation over at least the last five months, Desjardins said, and the level of initial jobless claims has been decreasing.

The economics calendar will be busy Thursday, with the weekly report on initial jobless claims, as well as readings on worker productivity and the trade balance are all due at 8:30 AM ET (1230GMT).

For example, weekly initial jobless claims are currently running at around the 345,000 level, which in the past has been consistent with monthly employment gains of around 150,000; the manufacturing ISM employment index is at a 20 - year high; and growth in temporary - help services employment (which tends to lead overall employment) has picked up.

Data on initial jobless claims for the latest week and import prices for March will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET.

This was in spite of investors learning that initial jobless claims had declined by 1,000 to 232,000 for the prior week (remaining at an almost 45 - year low).

Other job - related data continue to show signs of improvement with initial jobless claims hovering near a new low of the recovery at the end of March.

«This is yet another sign that, as we first saw with the initial jobless claims data, the recovery from Harvey was very fast and the disruption from Irma in Florida was far less than initially feared,» said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities.