{"id":199894,"date":"2025-12-24T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:23:07","slug":"us-weekly-initial-jobless-claims-decline-to-214000-vs-223000-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199894\/","title":{"rendered":"US weekly Initial Jobless Claims decline to 214,000 vs. 223,000 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 214,000 Initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/economic-calendar\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jobless Claims<\/a> in the week ending December 20, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week&#8217;s unrevised level, the US Department of Labor (DOL) reported on Wednesday. This reading came in better than the market expectation of 223,000.<\/p>\n<p>In this period, the 4-week moving average declined by 750 to 216,750.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending December 13 was 1,923,000, an increase of 38,000 from the previous week&#8217;s revised level,&#8221; the DOL noted in its press release.<\/p>\n<p>Market reaction<\/p>\n<p>The US Dollar Index showed no immediate reaction to this report and was last seen posting small daily gains at 97.92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 214,000 Initial Jobless Claims in the week ending December 20, a decrease of 10,000 from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-199894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}