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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Initial Jobless Claims

Initial claims were at 372000 for the week ended December 31.  Claims have been below below 400k since the beginning of November--a good sign but also pretty heavily influenced by seasonal adjustments.  Follow through of this trend in January would be more encouraging.  For reference, below is a time series of the claims data.


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