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US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Fall to 787K

There were 787,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the US during the week ending October 16th, the data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) revealed this Thursday.

This reading followed last week’s print of 842,000 (revised from 898,000) and came in better than the market expectation of 860,000.

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