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Poor unemployment report points to troubled US economy – Full story
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Follow the money. Find the profits!Liquidity is money. Regardless of where in the world that money originates, eventually it flows to and through Wall Street. So if you want to know the direction of the next big moves in stocks and bonds, just follow the money. Lee Adler’s Liquidity Trader tracks and shows you the…
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Interpreting The Head Scratching Unemployment Claims Data
by Lee Adler • • 4 Comments
Actual, not seasonally adjusted, initial unemployment claims totaled 319,349 last week, according to the Department of Labor tabulation of weekly data submitted to it by the 50 state employment departments. This number was virtually unchanged from the prior week total of 319,382. As always, the media reported only the seasonally manipulated numbers showing a decline…
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Economists Surprised Again By Unemployment Claims, Should Not Have Been
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The mainstream media proclaimed an unexpected “beat” of the first time unemployment claims number today. The fake, seasonally fudged number dropped to 358,000 in the week ended February 4. According to Bloomberg, the consensus of economists’ expectations was for 370,000. Aside from the fact that whether economists get a forecast right or not seems to…
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First Time Claims Data a Renoir
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Every week the US Department of Labor and Birth/Death Adjustments dutifully reports two sets of numbers on first time and continuing unemployment claims. One set is the actual number of people filing claims as tabulated by the 50 states. The other is a fictionalized number which purports to smooth out the seasonal variances so that…
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Weekly Unemployment Claims: A Decline of 29,000; 4-Week Moving Average Up 1,250
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
May 19, 2011
The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. Claims fell 29,000 from a 4,000 upward revision of the previous week. Here is the official statement from the Department of Labor:
In the week …
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Weekly Unemployment Claims: A Decline of 44,000; 4-Week Moving Average Up 4,500
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May 12, 2011
The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. Claims fell 44,000 from a 4,000 upward revision of the previous week, which takes the number back to approximately the level prior to last week’s b…
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Weekly Unemployment Claims: A Stunning 10% Increase
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
May 5, 2011
The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. Claims rose 43,000 from an upward revision of the previous week to 431,000. That is a 10% increase for the week and a 4-week moving average increase…
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Unemployment Claims Jump 25,000
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April 28, 2011 weekly update
The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. Claims rose 25,000 from an upward revision of the previous week to 429,000. The 4-week moving average increased by 2.3%. Here is …
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The 10 Industries That Pay Women The Least
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Women continue to struggle for equal rights in the workplace. For at least two decades, they have earned 80% of the wages of men doing equivalent jobs. That should be a shock to most people since the feminist movement is several decades old. Sadly…
