USA: decline in weekly jobless claims

(CercleFinance.com) - The Labor Department announced that 211,000 new U.
S. jobless claims were registered for the week ending December 23, down 9,000 on the previous week.

The four-week moving average - more representative of the underlying trend - came in at 223,250, down 3,500 on the previous week.

Finally, the number of people receiving regular benefits fell by 52,000 to 1,844,000 in the week to December 16, the most recent period available for this statistic.


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