The continuing-claims data lag the data on new filings by a week. Economists consider the weekly jobless-claims data one of the timeliest windows into the health of the labor market. So far in ...

Weekly unadjusted claims increased by 3,176 to 219,710. For the week ended April 5, the seasonally adjusted continuing claims totaled 1.89 million, compared with the Bloomberg consensus of 1.87 ...