{"id":17254,"date":"2010-12-23T11:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2010-12-23T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:33:31","slug":"us-weekly-jobless-claims-edge-lower-by-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/12\/23\/us-weekly-jobless-claims-edge-lower-by-3000\/","title":{"rendered":"US Weekly Jobless Claims edge lower by 3,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A government release today by the U.S. Labor Department showed that weekly U.S. jobless claims decreased in the week that ended on December 18th. New jobless claims fell to a total of 420,000 unemployed workers, a dip from the prior week by 3,000 workers. This decrease matched market forecasts predicting the fall to 420,000 claims.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-week moving average of initial unemployed workers rose by 2,500 from the prior week to a total of 426,000.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, workers seeking continuing claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending on December 11th also decreased. Continuing claims declined by 103,000 workers to a total of 4,064,000 unemployed workers. The four week moving average of continuing claims fell lower by 38,250 workers to a total of 4,155,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government release today by the U.S. Labor Department showed that weekly U.S. jobless claims decreased in the week that ended on December 18th&#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-17254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254","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=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}