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U.S. Initial Jobless Claims

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Dec 12, 2024

Actual

242K

Forecast

221K

225K

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
Dec 26, 2024	13:30
Dec 19, 2024	13:30		245K	242K
Dec 12, 2024	13:30	242K	221K	225K
Dec 05, 2024	13:30	224K	215K	215K
Nov 27, 2024	13:30	213K	215K	215K
Nov 21, 2024	13:30	213K	220K	219K

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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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