Thursday, July 09, 2015

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued July 07 2015

Today’s jobless claims report showed a an increase to both initial and insured unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims approched the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased 15,000 to 297,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims increased by 69,000 to 2.334 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.7%.