New jobless claims for last week, slightly less than estimated
US Initial Jobless Claims(WoW)06-Jan: 247K (est. 255K, prev. 235K)
-Continuing Jobless Claims(WoW)30-Dec: 2.087M (est. 2.084M)
Initial jobless claims rise less than forecast
(note: the article contains a simple arithmetic mistake)
http://www.businessinsider.com/initi...12-2017-2017-1
The 52-week moving average of non-seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims has hit (yet) another post-crisis low