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REPEAT:MNI DATA ANALYSIS: US Jobless Claims Fall 9,000>
Repeats Story Initially Transmitted at 13:30 GMT Feb 8/08:30 EST Feb 8
--Four-Week Average Down 10,000, Low Since 1973; Could Rise Next Week
By Kevin Kastner
WASHINGTON (MNI) - Initial claims U.S. state unemployment benefits
fell by 9,000 in the February 3 week to 221,000, when analysts had
expected claims to rise modestly to 232,000, data released by the Labor
Department Thursday showed.
Seasonal adjustment factors had expected a decrease of 6.3%, or
16,822, in unadjusted claims. Those claims actually fell by 27,130 to
240,636. The current week's level was well below the 259,713 level a
year ago.
--FOUR-WEEK AVERAGE DROPS
The four-week moving average for initial claims, a better measure
of the underlying trend of the data during periods of volatility, fell
by 10,000 to 224,500 in the February 3 week as the 261,000 level in the
January 6 week rolled out of the equation. This marks the fourth
straight decline and the lowest point since March 1973.
The average is now significantly below its recent peak of 250,750 in
the January 6 week, which covered most of December. If the number of
headline claims does not change next week and there are no revisions to
data from the past four weeks, the four-week average will rise by 1,250
as the recent low point of 216,000 in the January 13 week rolls out of
the calculation. This would keep the average well below its levels a
month earlier.
--CONTINUING CLAIMS FALL
The level of seasonally adjusted continuing claims fell by 33,000
to 1.923 million in the January 27 week after rising to 1.956 million in
the previous week. The level remains significantly lower than a year
earlier.
The four-week moving average for continuing claims rose by 12,500
to 1.946 million in the January 27 week, as a 1.873 million level in the
December 30 week dropped out.
Unadjusted continuing claims fell by 70,297 to 2.306 million in the
week and remained below the 2.483 million level a year earlier.
The seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate held steady at
1.4%, down slightly from 1.5% in the same week a year earlier.
The unemployment rate among the insured labor force is well below
that reported monthly by the Labor Department because claims are
approved for the most part only for job losers, not the job leavers and
labor force reentrants included in the monthly report.
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