US Jobless Claims Decline, December Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Widens

Very interesting morning, Jon, with lots of data. As you mentioned, jobless claims come in a big drop, 206,000 for last week. That's down from the initially reported 227. Continuing claims are at 1,000,869, slightly up from 1,000,008 62 in the initially reported last week's figures.We also have trade numbers in the trade deficit for the month of December, 70.3% billion, significantly higher than the 53.0% billion reported for the month of November. Add in to that wholesale inventories up 2/10 and retail inv ...