881,000 Americans Filed Initial Claims for Unemployment Last Week

CNN: “881,000 Americans filed initial claims for benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis,” which is less than one million for the first time in a month.

“Continued jobless claims, which count people filing for benefits for at least two weeks in a row, also offered some good news: It stood at a seasonally adjusted 13.3 million, falling by more than 1 million from the prior week.”