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18 Feb 2010 11:02

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Biz: Jobless claims, prices increase, make investors super-depressed

  • 31,000 new jobless claims this week, which was way higher than expected
  • 1.4% increase in farm and factory prices, caused by higher energy costs source
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14 Jan 2010 09:48

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Biz: Retail unexpectedly sucked last month; jobs sucked last week

  • -0.3% decline in retail sales in December; a growth of 0.5% was expected during the holidays
  • +11,000 increase in jobess claims last week; it wasn’t supposed to be quite that high source
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12 Nov 2009 10:17

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Biz: New jobless claims haven’t looked this low in a long time

  • 502,000 this past week’s jobless claims level – the lowest it’s been in 2009; and that level is still kind of high!
  • 488,000 the jobless claims level in the week ending January 3, the last time claims were this freaking low source
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08 Oct 2009 22:00

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Biz, U.S.: The economy’s starting to (slowly) recover from the recession

  • 521,000 new jobless claims this week, the lowest level since January
  • thirteen months since the last increase in retail; we had one in September source
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11 Jun 2009 10:23

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Biz, U.S.: Is the worst of the job-cutting bloodshed over?

  • -24,000 fewer jobless claims this week source
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16 Apr 2009 09:18

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Biz, U.S.: Initial jobless claims are on the decline. (Whew.)

  • -8% decline in new claims in the week ended April 11th source
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26 Mar 2009 10:18

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Biz, U.S.: The economy’s showing signs of life, but not in jobless claims

  • 5.56 million ongoing jobless claims, which is a (sad) record source
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