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Another strong reading on weekly jobless claims

Posted in Economy on January 19th, 2012 by Paul Deng – Be the first to comment

On Thursday, the 4-week moving average of weekly jobless claims reached the lowest level since April 2008. The US labor market continues to show sign of thawing.

38 400x300 weeklyclaimsjan192012 Another strong reading on weekly jobless claims

If this trend continues, consumer confidence is likely to bounce back. Then the US will be on the track of a virtuous cycle: business investment will follow, so will bank lending.  We need to wait for more data in coming weeks to confirm such trend.