US Economy: Jobless Claims Rise, Trade Gap Widens

We can see the trade deficit widens to $78.3% billion from 60.2% billion. And that's largely because we imported a lot. 55.9% increase in imports. 3/10 percent increase in exports.Get back to that in a second. Jobless claims now to 37, a little bit higher than anticipated. The 230 was the forecast last week to 29.The continuing claims number 1,940,000. That's down from 1,000,009 44. So some mixed numbers on jobless claims.Probably don't add anything to the narrative of what's going on in the labor market. N ...