The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell to an 11-month low last week, pointing to a ...

The so-called continuing claims continued to rise in Washington state, long after a strike by factory workers at Boeing ended ...

The four-week average of weekly claims, which quiets some of the week-to-week volatility, inched up by 1,000 to 226,500.

By comparison, new jobless claims in the same in week of December 2023 were similarly low at 213,000. New jobless claims have hovered in the low 200,000s for the better part of the last three years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major indexes traded higher Thursday after a surprise drop in the Labor Department ...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 211,000 for the week ended Dec. 28, the lowest level since April. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast ...

The so-called continuing claims continued to rise in Washington state, long after a strike by factory workers at Boeing ended. They remained elevated in North Carolina in the aftermath of the ...