Mixed Jobless Claims Report
August 12, 2010 at 12:52 PM EDT
For months, it was treading water. That was bad enough. But now it’s rising, raising fears that it could go higher still. Today’s update on weekly jobless claims shows that new filings for unemployment benefits rose to 484,000 last week—the highest since February. On a weekly basis, the change was small—a gain of 2,000 on the [...]