Initial jobless claims comes in at 236,000 for first week of December

Welcome back to Squad Clocks. Rick Santella here live at CME HQ with the breaking news on this Thursday morning. Post 25 base point rate cut by the Fed, third consecutive one.Initial jobless claims for the week of December 6th. Well, we're expecting a number around 220,000. Uh it has been extremely well behaved.I still don't see it on the wires. We'll go to the trade balance next. Trade balance minus 52.8% 8 billion.That's a better lower trade deficit than we expected. We were looking for a number closer to ...