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US Initial Jobless Claims Jump To 4-Month-Highs
US Initial Jobless Claims Jump To 4-Month-Highs
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time jumped to 229k last week (more than the 220k expected) and the highest in four months...
Source: Bloomberg
Pennsylvania, California, and Minnesota are the states seeing the largest rise in claims last week...
Continuing jobless claims also rose last week to 1.795mm Americans - highest in two months, but still relatively low in the context of the last two years...
Source: Bloomberg
The bottom line is that while initial jobless claims are rising, they remain low...
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By Craig S. Smith of Eye on AI,
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Lebanon Roadside Bomb Wounds 4 Israeli Troops as War Continues to Escalate
The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire may have been extended this weekend, but that doesn’t mean fire has in any way ceased, nor indeed that the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon isn’t moving ever deeper into the country. In the first day since the extension was announced, Israeli troops killed at least 18 Lebanese and wounded 124 others. […]
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