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U.S. Initial Jobless Claims

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Jun 18, 2025

Actual

245K

Forecast

246K

250K

Initial Jobless Claims measures the number of people who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time during the past week. This is the most timely U.S. economic data, but the market impact varies from week to week.
A reading that is higher than forecast is generally negative (bearish) for the USD, while a lower than forecast reading is generally supportive (bullish) for the USD.

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Source: Department of Labor

Release Date	Time	Actual	Forecast	Previous
Jun 26, 2025	13:30		247K	245K
Jun 18, 2025	13:30	245K	246K	250K
Jun 12, 2025	13:30	248K	242K	248K
Jun 05, 2025	13:30	247K	236K	239K
May 29, 2025	13:30	240K	229K	226K
May 22, 2025	13:30	227K	230K	229K

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Bob Carolgees Jan 14, 2016 13:28

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the text for this release needs altering (still) it reads as bullish whatever happens, I think most people now what the correct statement is but why have anything at all if you are going to leave it incorrect for so long?

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