Last week, the number of American citizens, who have applied for unemployment benefits for the first time decreased by 10 thousand and average 307 thousand. These data are presented in the report of the US Department of Labor.
Recently data showed that last week were recorded 317.000 applications.
Analysts, who were surveyed by Bloomberg, expected the number of jobless claims to fall to 300.000, by 16 thousand people.
Many analysts have pointed out that this figure can be explained by rather big seasonal factors. Such as the dismissal of employees who were actively employed at the time of the winter holidays.
Over the past four weeks, the average number of applications (less volatile indicator) increased from 300 thousand to 306.5 thousand. This value is the highest since July last year.
For the week that ended January 10, the number of Americans receiving this benefit increased by 15.000 and now is 2.443 million people - explained the analysts of FBS Company (rated among the TOP Forex Brokers Masterforex-V World Academy http://www.masterforex-v.com/).
