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U.S. Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg.

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Feb 02, 2023

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191.75K

Previous

197.50K

Initial Jobless Claims measures the number of individuals who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time during the past week.

As the week to week numbers might be very volatile, the four week moving average smooths the weekly data and used for the initial jobless claims metric

A higher than expected reading should be taken as negative/bearish for the USD, while a lower than expected reading should be taken as positive/bullish for the USD.

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Source: Department of Labor

Release Date	Time	Actual	Forecast	Previous
Feb 09, 2023	08:30			191.75K
Feb 02, 2023	08:30	191.75K		197.50K
Jan 26, 2023	08:30	197.50K		206.75K
Jan 19, 2023	08:30	206.00K		212.50K
Jan 12, 2023	08:30	212.50K		214.25K
Jan 05, 2023	08:30	213.75K		220.50K

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mg bishton Mar 11, 2021 8:35AM ET

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downward revisions swamp upward over the last year by 5:1 estimators appear to have gone to the Pollyana School of Economics

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Bit of a hit and miss number . Looks bad with trend increasing . I predict by June 1 2020 Million weekly average. Not reversing really until middle of 2022.

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Have you noticed how the 4 week average gets revised up nearly every week all year long?

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still trending down

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