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Jobless claims unexpectedly rise last week [412,000 omitted from actual headline]
Reuters ^ | April 14, 2011

Posted on 04/14/2011 6:10:52 AM PDT by TomGuy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, bouncing back above the key 400,000 level, a government report showed on Thursday.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 412,000, the Labor Department said.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bsunexpectedly; economy; employment; jobless; unemployment; unexpectedly; unexpectedlybs
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Reuters' "unexpectedly" isn't even funny any more.

The Reuters headline omitted the number 412,000.

1 posted on 04/14/2011 6:10:58 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

THIS is series!


2 posted on 04/14/2011 6:15:21 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: TomGuy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=unexpectedly


3 posted on 04/14/2011 6:15:51 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic. Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: TomGuy
Rose "unexpectedly"????

Obama crashing the economy is about as "unexpected" as a drunk crashing a car.


4 posted on 04/14/2011 6:18:55 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: TomGuy

Whenever the MSM publishes the unemployment figures, I ignore them and wait a week or so until the accurate figures are published.

The MSM and the current administration are ridiculously transparent in their efforts to skew the condition of our economy.

EODGUY


5 posted on 04/14/2011 6:22:09 AM PDT by EODGUY (Hold on to your copies of the Consititution of the United States. It is going to be re-written.)
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To: TomGuy

But, in more encouraging news, the unemployment rate that will be reported tomorrow will show a decrease.


6 posted on 04/14/2011 6:22:44 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: TomGuy

While this week’s number of people filing initial cliams surged to 412K, blowing out expectations of 380K, it is once again the prior revision that shows the true nature of the BLS. Last week when claims printed at 382K, better than expectations: last week’s 388K was revised up to 392K, declining to 382K below expectations of 385K, which in tried BLS fashion will certainly be revised next week so that the actual number will have been a miss but by then nobody will care. Sure enough: last week’s number was revised... to 385K, meaning there was no improvement.

Obviously this week’s number will be revised higher next week. As usual. Looking at continuing claims we see the same thing: the prior number was revised from 3,723K to 3,738K, meaning the drop to this week’s 3,680K was better than expected. Lastly from the BLS, people claiming EUCs and Extended Benefits increased by about 40K in the week ended March 26.


7 posted on 04/14/2011 6:25:32 AM PDT by RobertClark (On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
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To: TomGuy

Our son was one of ‘em. He’s relieved. He HATED his job. The trick will be finding another one.


8 posted on 04/14/2011 6:25:59 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Let's party like it's 1773!)
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Jobless claims unexpectedly rise last week

"Well duck, looks like they said the magic word again!"


9 posted on 04/14/2011 6:28:06 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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325K appears to be the average for a healthy economy however one must also consider the current 10%+ unemployment. In other words, 325K is still bad with such high unemployment.

10 posted on 04/14/2011 6:38:41 AM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: RobertClark

It’s like the crude oil inventories. This week showed lower than expected supplies. That’s because everyone and their brother saw prices skyrocketing so was filling up as cheap as they could. Next week will be “higher than expected” inventories because nobody’s buying gas. But by then no one will care...


11 posted on 04/14/2011 6:39:01 AM PDT by neodad (Don't Tap, Just Drill!)
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To: TomGuy

Fox News reported the numbers


12 posted on 04/14/2011 6:56:43 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: TomGuy

Do I even have to say it?

13 posted on 04/14/2011 7:11:50 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (TX and MI - When the going gets tough, the dims run and hide.)
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To: TomGuy
Clear to me that this labor dept is lying about all the numbers they put out.

They are not even good liars, if you are going to lie, why not lie better?

I guess even liars have a threshold they will not cross, so if they are reporting a somewhat bad number, imagine how bad the real numbers are? We will probably not learn this until President Palin takes office in Jan 2013

14 posted on 04/14/2011 7:24:27 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2012, PLEASE LORD)
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To: Arm_Bears

“But, in more encouraging news, the unemployment rate that will be reported tomorrow will show a decrease.”

LOL. So true. Jobless numbers increase, inflation up, housing down, but hey: The economy is on the mend and people are going back to work!


15 posted on 04/14/2011 7:33:57 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: TomGuy
Senator Calls Goldman Sachs “a Financial Snake Pit”

Announcing the findings of a Senate panel investigating the financial crisis, Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) called Goldman Sachs “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest, and wrongdoing,” adding that C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein should possibly face perjury charges.

I would have posted primary source but the web site would not open. I wonder why ___ ? < / sarcasm >

16 posted on 04/14/2011 7:45:05 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: Rennes Templar

And my unicorn poops Skittles.


17 posted on 04/14/2011 7:54:13 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: Arm_Bears

They really do think we are stupid. We’re not, but unfortunately, a lot of Americans are just dumbed down.


18 posted on 04/14/2011 8:14:22 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: TomGuy

See tagline.


19 posted on 04/14/2011 9:01:23 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: TSgt

9% Unemployment is what all Socialist countries have.

Welcome to the new normal.


20 posted on 04/14/2011 9:02:40 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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