MDS / JOBLESS CLAIMS
🇺🇸 Jobless Claims - US benefit claims
What it measures
Initial claims are new weekly applications for unemployment benefits. Continuing claims cover ongoing claims. Neither is the unemployment rate.
Why traders follow it
Above forecast may signal a cooling labour market and weaken USD through expectations of a more dovish Fed. One week is noisy, so review revisions and the four-week average.
Check the country, period and source. A single value or regime label does not determine a trade's direction.
Official methodology