The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level since mid-May.

U.S. share futures dropped, the dollar weakened and benchmark Treasury yields dipped as marginally-above-expectation U.S.

The number of Americans filing for for unemployment benefits last week jumped to their highest level in a year, a possible ...

Continuing claims fell between the August and September survey week. The jobless rate slipped to 4.2% in August after rising to 4.3% in July. The increase in the unemployment rate from 3.4% in ...

Jobless claims of 219,000 declined by 12,000 from the previous week, according to the Labor Department. Economists surveyed by FactSet were expecting claims of 230,000.

The weekly jobless claims report from the Labor Department ... "With mortgage rates closing in on 6% and likely to fall further in response to an aggressive pace of Fed rate cuts, we think more ...

The number is 4,000 less than the revised initial claims made the week of 222,000 ... average of the overall total of people filing for jobless benefits was 1,835,750, a decrease of 6,500 from ...

Indexes fell Thursday on rising risks to oil supplies amid escalating Middle East tensions and as traders braced for Friday's ...

Hotter-than-expected CPI and a spike in jobless claims pressure tech and consumer discretionary stocks, while utilities outperform. Annual headline inflation dips to 2.4% in September, but core ...

Initial jobless claims dropped from the prior week to 219,000, surprising economists who forecasted that new unemployment filings would be larger. The data showed that while job creation may be ...

Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images Initial jobless claims dropped from the prior week to 219,000, surprising economists who forecasted that new unemployment filings would be larger.

At the same time, jobless claims, a measure of layoffs, have remained low. The Federal Reserve made a sizable half-percentage-point cut in its policy interest rate on Wednesday, in part to keep ...