“Weekly jobless claims total hits new pandemic-era low of 364,000”

“Initial filings for unemployment insurance fell sharply last week, indicating continued improvement in the U.S. jobs market, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time jobless claims totaled 364,000 for the week ended June 26, compared with the 390,000 Dow Jones estimate. That marked a new pandemic-era low and a decline of 51,000 from the previous week. The last time there were fewer claims was the week of March 14, 2020, just before the worst of the economic damage hit…”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html

This is good news. It’s nice to have some every now and then.