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U.S. Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg.

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May 26, 2022

Actual

206.75K

Previous

199.50K

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
Jun 02, 2022	08:30			206.75K
May 26, 2022	08:30	206.75K		199.50K
May 19, 2022	08:30	199.50K		191.25K
May 12, 2022	08:30	192.75K		188.50K
May 05, 2022	08:30	188.00K		180.00K
Apr 28, 2022	08:30	179.75K		177.50K

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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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