{"id":19033,"date":"2011-02-03T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2011-02-03T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:59:44","slug":"us-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-more-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/03\/us-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-more-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"US Weekly Jobless Claims fall more than expected"},"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 January 29th, according to a release by the U.S. Labor Department today. New jobless claims fell by 42,000 workers to a total of 415,000 unemployed workers and surpassed market forecasts that were expecting jobless claims to fall to 420,000 workers following the previous week\u2019s 457,000 revised number of claims.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-week moving average of newly unemployed workers rose by 1,000 workers from the previous week to a total of 430,500 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, workers seeking continuing claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending January 22nd also fell for the week. Continuing claims decreased by 84,000 workers to a total of 3,925,000 unemployed workers. The four week moving average of continuing claims dropped by 50,500 workers to a total of 3,929,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New jobless claims fell by 42,000 workers to a total of 415,000 unemployed workers and beat market forecasts that were expecting jobless claims to fall to 420,000 workers following the previous week\u2019s 457,000 revised number of claims&#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-19033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033","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=19033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}