Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 223,000 for the week ended Jan. 18, ...

Slightly more Americans apply for jobless benefits last week, but continuing claims rise to highest level since 2021.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, suggesting no ...

The number of Americans on benefit rolls climbed to a more than three-year high, while first-time applications for US unemployment insurance edged slightly higher.Most Read from BloombergWhat Happened ...

U.S. initial jobless claims were higher last week, but the increase wasn’t as drastic as economist Thomas Simons of Jefferies had been expecting.

The U.S. jobs market has a “slow leak,” as reflected in the latest weekly data on initial jobless claims, according to Renaissance Macro Research. “The slow leaking higher of unemployment continues,” ...

Stock-index futures remained mostly lower after data showed first-time U.S. jobless claims ticked up last week. Initial claims rose to 223,000 last week. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

All major indexes began trading this early morning in the red, following three-straight up-days on the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 (the small-cap Russell 2000 took a powder yesterday). But while the Dow ...

The drop in Florida’s new unemployment claims echoed the national trend. There were 284,222 filings across the country for the week ending Jan. 18. That’s a sizable decrease of 68,135 from the week ...

Continuing claims, a proxy for people who are already receiving benefits and still can’t find a job, jumped to 1.9 million in the week ended Jan. 11, the highest since November 2021, according to ...

The number of initial jobless claims in the US rose in the week ending Jan. 18, signaling that the labor market of the world’s largest economy is stil ...

More Americans filed for initial jobless benefits last week, according to the Department of Labor. The week through Jan 18. brought 223,000 initial jobless claims, compared with 217,000 a week earlier ...