BLBG: Jobless Claims in U.S. Rose Last Week to 313,000
(Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose last week from a week earlier.
Jobless claims increased by 31,000 to 313,000 in the week ended Feb. 21 from a revised 282,000 in the prior period, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 49 economists surveyed by Bloomberg saw claims little changed at 290,000.
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