Initial Jobless Claims Rise to an Unexpected One-Month High
March 14, 2019 at 16:11 PM EDT
For the week ended March 9, initial jobless claims rose by 6,000 to 229,000 based on the latest numbers from the Labor Department, which was more than the anticipated 225,000 by a Reuters poll of economists. Despite this, however, the four-week average of new jobless claims declined by 2,500 to...