{"id":1511290,"date":"2025-01-02T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1511290"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:37:05","slug":"initial-jobless-claims-tumble-to-8-month-lows-to-end-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/initial-jobless-claims-tumble-to-8-month-lows-to-end-the-year\/1511290\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Jobless Claims Tumble To 8-Month Lows To End The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Initial Jobless Claims Tumble To 8-Month Lows To End The Year<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time tumbled to 211k in the last week of 2024 (down from 220k the prior week and well below the 221k exp). That is the lowest claims print since April&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm40BC.jpg?itok=XlcWjSjM\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notably, unadjusted claims rose for the second week in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California and Texas saw the biggest declines in claims last week, while Michigan saw the biggest increase&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/image%20%2835%29_6.png?itok=rbJgCZaC\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing claims also tumbled back below the 1.9 million Maginot Line (to 1.844mm vs 1.89mm exp). That is the lowest since September&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm46D3_0.jpg?itok=pEdyv2S-\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seems like Powell and his pals will be struggling to come up with reasons to cut rates on Jan 29th if this first data point of the year starts a trend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 01\/02\/2025 &#8211; 08:37<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/initial-jobless-claims-tumble-8-month-lows-end-year\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/initial-jobless-claims-tumble-8-month-lows-end-year<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial Jobless Claims Tumble To 8-Month Lows To End The Year The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time tumbled to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1511291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}