Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 216,000 claims for the latest week. Claims have retreated from the near 1-1/2-year ...

Weekly application volume for unemployment insurance in the US declined last week, while the level of continuing claims remained at a three-year high, the Department of Labor reported Wednesday. For ...

K to 213K vs. the 220K consensus and 219K prior (revised from 217K). Continuing claims: 1.908M vs. 1.872M prior (revised from ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment ... the claims report showed.

"The labor market is softening but not imploding." Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 6,000 to a ...

New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 9,715 in the week ending November 22, down from 10,680 the week before, the ...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 1.106 million for the week ended Aug. 15, from an upwardly revised 971,000 in the prior week.

Initial claims for state unemployment ... Despite the anticipated bounce back in payrolls, the unemployment rate is likely to be unchanged or even rise this month. The number of people receiving ...