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US: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Rise to 353K

There were 353,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the United States during the week ending August 21, the data published by the US Department of Labor (DOL) revealed on Thursday. This reading followed the previous print of 349,000 and came in slightly worse than the market expectation of 350,000.

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