US weekly jobless insurance claims
Weekly Unemployment Claims Update
For the week ending March 28, initial jobless claims, adjusted for seasonal factors, totaled 202,000—down by 9,000 compared to the revised figure from the previous week. That prior week's number was adjusted upward by 1,000, moving from 210,000 to 211,000.
The four-week average of initial claims stood at 207,750, reflecting a decrease of 3,000 from the revised average of the week before. The previous average was revised up by 250, changing from 210,500 to 210,750.
The insured unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, remained steady at 1.2 percent for the week ending March 21, showing no change from the unrevised rate of the previous week.
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