U.S. Jobless Claims Rose Last Week
18 October 2019 - 12:00AM
Dow Jones News
By Kate Davidson and Harriet Torry
WASHINGTON-The number of Americans applying for initial jobless
claims increased last week following a dip the previous week, but
remained at a historically low level.
--Initial jobless claims were up 4,000 to 214,000 in the week
ended Oct. 12, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists
surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected 215,000
claims.
--The four-week moving average of claims, which smoothes out
volatility in the weekly data, was 214,750. That was up slightly
from the previous week's 213,750 average.
--Claims for the week ended Oct. 5 were unrevised from an
initially reported 210,000.
-Continuing claims, those filed by workers unemployed for longer
than a week, fell by 10,000 to 1.68 million in the week ending Oct.
5.
The Labor Department report on jobless claims can be accessed
at: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
Write to Kate Davidson at kate.davidson@wsj.com and Harriet
Torry at harriet.torry@wsj.com.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 17, 2019 08:45 ET (12:45 GMT)
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