{"id":49053,"date":"2025-09-28T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49053\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:35:09","slug":"initial-jobless-claims-dip-below-expectations-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49053\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Jobless Claims Dip Below Expectations in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (<a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a>) The quantity of Americans submitting first-time unemployment benefit applications dropped by 14,000 last week, reaching 218,000, based on data from the US Labor Department released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This number was lower than market projections of 233,000 and fell from the prior week&#8217;s upwardly adjusted figure of 232,000.<\/p>\n<p>The four-week moving average stood at 237,500, decreasing by 2,750 from the previously revised average of 240,250.<\/p>\n<p>During the week before, claims had decreased by 33,000 from a four-year peak of 264,000.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the US economy generated merely 22,000 new jobs, significantly below the anticipated 75,000.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the June non-farm payroll employment figure was revised downward by 27,000, resulting in a loss of 13,000 jobs\u2014the first decline since December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, annual adjustments to the non-farm payroll statistics for the year ending March 2025 revealed a reduction of 911,000 from initial reports, representing the largest downward correction in over twenty years.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1110120272\/Initial-Jobless-Claims-Dip-Below-Expectations-in-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>MENAFN28092025000045017167ID1110120272<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Legal Disclaimer:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a> provides the<br \/>\n              information \u201cas is\u201d without warranty of any kind. We do not accept<br \/>\n              any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images,<br \/>\n              videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information<br \/>\n              contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright<br \/>\n              issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(MENAFN) The quantity of Americans submitting first-time unemployment benefit applications dropped by 14,000 last week, reaching 218,000, based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-49053","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\/49053","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=49053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}