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The number of Americans filling for jobless claims raised to 0.219 million compared to 0.193 million reported in the previous week. Today’s reading came in above market expectations of 0.203 million.
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Continuing claims reading, which lags initial jobless claims data by one week, rose to 1.36 million from 1.34 million, while analysts expected 1.34 million.
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