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US Initial Jobless Claims Climb to 778K

There were 778,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the US during the week ending November 21, the data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) revealed on Wednesday.

This reading followed last week’s print of 748,000 (revised from 742,000) and came in worse than the market expectation of 730,000.

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