U.S. applications for unemployment benefits in the week ending Nov. 22 dropped 6,000 from the previous week to 216,000.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell to a seven-month low last week, suggesting ...

The latest batch of weekly jobless-claims data brought more evidence Wednesday that the labor market is stuck in an uncertain ...

Last week 216,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims, the Labor Department said Wednesday, down from 222,000 a week earlier. Over the past year, the weekly claims number has mostly hovered ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits increased last week, economists estimated on Thursday, and more people were collecting unemployment checks in ...

More than 1.9 million Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits in mid-October, the highest mark since early August, according to data from the Department of Labor. For the week ending Oct.

The 43-day shutdown halted collection, processing and publishing of official economic data. Yet states kept collecting claims data, which Haver Analytics and Wall Street economists have extrapolated ...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 216,000 for the week ended November 22, ...