{"id":15849,"date":"2010-11-24T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2010-11-24T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:11:59","slug":"weekly-jobless-claims-decrease-to-lowest-level-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/24\/weekly-jobless-claims-decrease-to-lowest-level-since-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Jobless Claims decrease to lowest level since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. weekly jobless claims decreased by more than expected in the week that ended on November 20th, according to a release by the U.S. Labor Department today. New jobless claims fell by 34,000 workers to a total of 407,000 unemployed workers, marking the lowest level of claims since July 2008. The 4-week moving average of unemployed workers decreased by 7,500 workers from the previous week to a total of 436,000.<\/p>\n<p>Market forecasts were expecting jobless claims to decline to 435,000 unemployed workers following the prior week\u2019s 441,000 revised number of claims.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, workers seeking continuing claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending November 13th also decreased for the week. Continuing claims fell by 142,000 workers to a total of 4,182,000 unemployed workers. The four week moving average of continuing claims dropped by 51,500 workers to a total of 4,309,000.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing claims decreased by more than expected as market forecasters were looking for 4,275,000 continued unemployment claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. weekly jobless claims decreased by more than expected in the week that ended on November 20th, according to a release by the U.S. Labor Department today. New jobless claims fell by 34,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}