USA: slight decline in weekly jobless claims

(CercleFinance.com) - The Labor Department announced 210,000 new jobless claims in the USA last week, down 2,000 on the previous week's revised figure (212,000 instead of 210,000).


The four-week moving average - more representative of the underlying trend - came in at 211,000, down 750 on the previous week's revised average.000, down 750 on the previous week's revised average.

Finally, the number of people receiving regular benefits rose by 24,000 to 1,819,000 in the week to March 16, the most recent period available for this statistic.

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