At 1.006 million in the week ended August 22, the week's initial claims for unemployment were neither as bad as feared nor as good as hoped. This week's figure dropped from 1.104 million in the prior week. (Economists had projected 1 million new claims for the week.) So this week's figure represents an improvement from […]


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