U.S. continuing claims rise 129,000 to 6.23M

ASusilovic · Sep 17, 2009

U.S. initial jobless claims drop 12,000 to 545,000

kashirin · Sep 17, 2009

Quote from ASusilovic:

U.S. initial jobless claims drop 12,000 to 545,000

I guess some improvement.
unadjusted just 407 000

market will be happy at the open

peilthetraveler · Sep 17, 2009

Unemployment 9.7%

Labor force of USA = 154.3 million (per CIA factbook)

Number of unemployed = 14,967,100 people

logikos · Sep 17, 2009

We'll see a big bump in unemployment at the end of the year, when the Christmas pink slips go out.