Jobs
US Jobless Claims Rise to One-Month High in Thanksgiving Week
- Applications increased by 9,000 to 224,000 last week
- New claims data tend to be choppy around the holidays
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Applications for US unemployment benefits rose to the highest in a month during a week that included the Thanksgiving holiday.
Initial claims increased by 9,000 to 224,000 in the week ended Nov. 30. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 215,000 applications.