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US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Fall to 709K

There were 709,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the US during the week ending November 7th, the data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) revealed on Thursday.

This reading followed last week’s print of 757,000 (revised from 751,000) and came in better than the market expectation of 735,000.

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