{"id":20758,"date":"2011-04-21T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20758"},"modified":"2011-04-21T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:35:59","slug":"weekly-initial-jobless-claims-decrease-less-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/04\/21\/weekly-initial-jobless-claims-decrease-less-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Initial Jobless Claims decrease less than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. jobless claims decreased by less than expected in the week that ended on April 16th, according to a release by the U.S. Labor Department today. Weekly initial jobless claims fell by 13,000 workers to a total of 403,000 unemployed workers following a revised total of 416,000 jobless claims recorded the previous week. The 4-week moving average of unemployed workers increased by 2,250 workers from the previous week to a total of 399,000.<\/p>\n<p>Market forecasts were expecting jobless claims to decline to a total of 390,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Workers seeking continuing claims for unemployment benefits for the week ending April 9th also decreased for the week. Continuing claims fell by 7,000 workers to a total of 3,695,000 unemployed workers following a total of 3,702,000 workers seeking continuing claims the week prior. The 4-week moving average of continuing claims dropped by 17,500 workers to a total of 3,716,750.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. jobless claims decreased by less than expected in the week that ended on April 16th, according to a release by the U.S. Labor Department today. Weekly initial jobless claims fell by 13,000 workers to a total of 403,000 unemployed workers from a revised total of 416,000 the previous week&#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-20758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758","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=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}