Alternative jobless claims data could suggest further weakening ahead

First, let me give you the jobless claims data. It's gathered individually from the states, seasonally adjusted by Haver Analytics, our data provider, rising by 10,000 on the week. Still a modest 229.You can see that in the next chart. They're rising. It's the top of the range where they've been the past several months, but not really through the roof, though.Continuing claims that keeps edging higher together with that surge in mass layoffs that we reported yesterday from Challenger. Well, that suggests ma ...