On Thursday, initial jobless claims will be another data point the market will be watching.
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Jobless claims out on Thursday, and Ben Bernanke will make a speech on Friday.
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Starting with more than expected jobless claims on Thursday then the disappointing non-farm payrolls report Friday.
Economists had expected jobless claims to continue to remain under the 400, 000 mark to around 380, 000.
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Thursday morning, the weekly tally of jobless claims showed 385, 000 first-time filings, a third-straight increase.
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Jobless claims fell by 30, 000 to 339, 000 last week, the fewest applications since February 2008.
The anomalous jump in jobless claims last week came from Hurricane Sandy, not human manipulation.
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Jobless claims fell to 421, 000 last week, a 17, 000 drop from the week before.
The ISM Non-Manufacturing Index is also out on Wednesday, and jobless claims follows on Thursday.
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Conversely as these jobless claims dropped to 450, 000 mark, the market largely moved upwards.
Just on Thursday, the U.S. reported a third straight week of once-again-rising weekly jobless claims.
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Initial jobless claims declined to 414, 000, from an upwardly revised 430, 000 in the prior week.
Pending home sales are out on Wednesday, and then GDP and jobless claims on Thursday.
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Then on Thursday, in addition to the weekly jobless claims, we get the Philadelphia Fed survey.
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On Thursday, we have the jobless claims and Producer Price Index, followed by the FOMC announcement.
Hurricane Sandy is being blamed for a 78, 000-claim spike in the weekly jobless claims number.
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Initial jobless claims relative to employment have remained near the lows of the 1990s employment boom.
The Department of Labor said that jobless claims fell last week to a seasonally-adjusted 385, 000.
Thursday brings jobless claims and factory orders, followed Friday by the monthly jobs report.
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U.S. retail sales and jobless claims were both disappointing, helping to temper the bullish tone.
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That is one reason why seasonally adjusted jobless claims were under 400, 000 this winter.
Jobless claims data also continues to improve, falling again this week down to 364, 000.
U.S. stocks turned slightly higher Thursday morning following another drop in weekly jobless claims.
Another downbeat U.S. jobless claims report issued Thursday morning failed to move the gold market much.
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On Thursday we get jobless claims, and then the monthly employment situation report follows Friday.
Meanwhile, weekly jobless claims dropped by 9, 000, to 349, 000, which was close to what was expected.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday is light and includes the weekly jobless claims report.
On Thursday, the Labor Department reported the lowest number of initial jobless claims since April 2008.
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Weekly jobless claims fell last week by 8, 000, even as economists predicted they would increase.
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Then on Thursday, we get the weekly jobless claims, followed on Friday by new home sales.
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