The figure hadn't been this low since April 2008, and such a substantial decrease from one week to the next dates back to three years earlier – The requests have even surprised analysts, who did not expect such a drop: minus 50 thousand units, at 352 thousand
US jobless claims are down: last week they fell to the lowest level since April 2008, recording a drop of 50 units to 352. The datum is also significant for another finding: not since 24 September 2005 has there been such a sharp decline from one week to the next.
Economists had expected a drop of only 19 to 380 units. The moving average of the last four weeks is
dropped by 3500 to 379 thousand.
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