{"id":28691,"date":"2012-03-30T03:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28691"},"modified":"2012-03-30T03:49:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:49:08","slug":"jobless-claims-fall-to-lowest-numbers-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/30\/jobless-claims-fall-to-lowest-numbers-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Numbers in Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v196c1becd39711b1d077729018c1557be6dc1649&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v196c1becd39711b1d077729018c1557be6dc1649&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jobless claims have dropped again to a fresh four year low, the LA Times reports. The new numbers, released on Thursday, are another sign of continued economic and jobs recovery.This week&#8217;s figure falls 5,000 under last week&#8217;s jobless claims, which were upwardly revised to 368,500. The four week moving average also dropped 3,500 from the last week&#8217;s average.Jobs have been added at a rate of 200,000 per month for the last three months, a sign that the economy is steadily and strongly recovering. Employers are demonstrating a new confidence in the economic status quo.The Commerce Department has said that the gross domestic product expanded 3% in the last quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/30\/1_zg7gvuja_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/30\/1_zg7gvuja_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobless claims have dropped again to a fresh four year low, the LA Times reports. The new numbers, released on Thursday, are another sign of continued economic and jobs recovery.This week&#8217;s figure falls 5,000 under last week&#8217;s jobless claims, which were upwardly revised to 368,500. The four week moving average also dropped 3,500 from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/30\/jobless-claims-fall-to-lowest-numbers-in-four-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Numbers in Four Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-28691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691","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=28691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}