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Unemployment Claims

Initial unemployment benefit claims · United States.

Thursday 20 August14:30 CEST / 15:30 Kyiv

Reference period: 2026-08-15

ACTUAL207KBelow forecast

FORECAST210KForex Factory · calendar archive · historical forecast

PREVIOUS212KFXMacroData · archive, subject to revisions · 2026-08-08

01 / WHY IT MATTERS

What changes for traders

Official series archive as of the update date. Actual and historical Previous may include later revisions.

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02 / SCENARIOS

How to interpret the result

Below forecast

Fewer claims suggest a more resilient labour market than expected, potentially supporting USD.

Next step

The four-week average, continuing claims and the next employment report.

03 / RELEASE HISTORY

Previous results

The same indicator and country

Release datePeriodActualForecastActual − Forecast

13/08/202608.2026212K202K+10 K

06/08/202608.2026200K203K-3 K

30/07/202607.2026198K201K-3 K

23/07/202607.2026189K211K-22 K

16/07/202607.2026209K216K-7 K

09/07/202607.2026217K218K-1 K

02/07/202606.2026217K219K-2 K

25/06/202606.2026216K225K-9 K

18/06/202606.2026227K225K+2 K

11/06/202606.2026230K220K+10 K

04/06/202605.2026225K214K+11 K

28/05/202605.2026212K211K+1 K

Period is the report month. Actual − Forecast measures deviation from expectations. pp means percentage points.

About the historical data

Forecast comes from a historical calendar or a pre-release capture. Actual may include subsequent revisions. A dash means no confirmed figure is available. Historical tables were retrieved after the releases and do not establish when a forecast first became available.

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