Sentences with phrase «jobless claims data»
«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.
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As I mentioned above, the four - week moving average of the jobless claims data breached 500,000 this week, which has happened only 4 other times.
U.S. stocks rose as investors digested jobless claims data which fell to a three month low ahead of Friday's monthly employment report.
The market is expected to see the weekly initial jobless claims data and the trade balance in the US with focus on Friday's non-farm payroll report.
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U.S. indexes were mainly lower amid earnings reports from the American banking sector and data showing a continuing decline in jobless insurance claims and tame inflation.
Leading up to Friday's data release, jobless claims came in at 240,000, just below the expected 242,000.
Blow - away Philly Fed data at a 1993 level, slightly stronger consumer inflation data, a surprise jump in home sales and still sub - 300,000 weekly jobless claims.
On the data front, initial jobless claims increased to 211,000 in the prior week, but remain near the lowest level since 1973.
Turning to today's economic calendar, Eurozone trade data will be released along with a string of US reports including initial jobless claims and manufacturing figures.
Data on initial jobless claims for the latest week and import prices for March will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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.