Comments on: US Jobless claims decline in latest week http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/08/us-jobless-claims-decline-in-latest-week.html Finance, Economics and Markets Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/08/us-jobless-claims-decline-in-latest-week.html#comment-56832 Edward Harrison Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/08/us-jobless-claims-decline-in-latest-week.html#comment-56832 Scott, no, the move to and the loss of extended benefits is significant. You're right on the money. It doesn't have any historical data to compare it to, so I tend to leave it out. It also makes the continuing claims number less meaningful. So I have been to concentrate on initial claims. Scott, no, the move to and the loss of extended benefits is significant. You’re right on the money.

It doesn’t have any historical data to compare it to, so I tend to leave it out. It also makes the continuing claims number less meaningful. So I have been to concentrate on initial claims.

]]> By: Scott Schaefcer http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/08/us-jobless-claims-decline-in-latest-week.html#comment-56829 Scott Schaefcer Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:18:00 +0000 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/08/us-jobless-claims-decline-in-latest-week.html#comment-56829 Any comment on the 140,000 persons who were counted in "continuing claims" last week, but were not this week because they exhausted their state-level benefits,and moved to "Extended Benefits" ??? Extended Benefits 491,684 352,393 +139,291 1,471 Perhaps I am missing important statistical insights that minimize the importance of this number. Any comment on the 140,000 persons who were counted in “continuing claims” last week, but were not this week because they exhausted their state-level benefits,and moved to “Extended Benefits” ???

Extended Benefits 491,684 352,393 +139,291 1,471

Perhaps I am missing important statistical insights that minimize the importance of this number.

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