US Economy: Jobless Claims Decline Slightly, Trade Gap Narrows
Bloomberg Television·2026-03-12 13:13
The low fire economy continues. We're at 213,000 for initial jobless claims last week. That's down from a revised 214,000 the week before.And it's just about where we expected to be. So it doesn't suggest that companies are giving up on their employees yet continuing claims, 1,850,000. That's down from one 871 the week before.Other numbers out a smaller than expected trade deficit for the month of January, -$54.5% billion. That's down from -72.9% in the month of December. Imports were down by 7/10 of a perc ...