{"id":428746,"date":"2026-03-19T19:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-initial-jobless-claims-205k-versus-215k-estimate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:40:19","slug":"us-initial-jobless-claims-205k-versus-215k-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-initial-jobless-claims-205k-versus-215k-estimate-428746\/","title":{"rendered":"US initial jobless claims 205K versus 215K estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior week 213K<\/li>\n<li>Initial jobs claims 205K vs 215K estimate<\/li>\n<li>4 week moving average of initial jobless claims 210.75K versus 211.50K last week.<\/li>\n<li> Continuing claims 1.857M vs 1.850M estimate. Prior week 1.850M   <\/li>\n<li>4 week moving average of continuing claims 1.850M versus 1.852M last week<\/li>\n<li>The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending March 7 were in Missouri (+3,907), Virginia (+1,670),<br \/>\nPennsylvania (+1,292), California (+911), and Massachusetts (+779), <\/li>\n<li>The largest decreases were in New York<br \/>\n(-14,567), Michigan (-2,549), New Jersey (-616), Connecticut (-471), and Vermont (-468). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>REVISION TO SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT FACTORS<br \/>\nNote: This week&#8217;s release reflects the annual revision to the weekly unemployment claims seasonal adjustment<br \/>\nfactors. The seasonal adjustment factors used for the UI Weekly Claims data from 2021 forward, along with the<br \/>\nresulting seasonally adjusted values for initial claims and continuing claims, have been revised. For more information<br \/>\nregarding the seasonal adjustment methodology, please see the additional information at the end of this news release. <\/p>\n<p>Initial jobless claims are a weekly <a class=\"H23r4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf\" ping=\"\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjojoOM_KuTAxXaKkQIHccTOCEQy_kOegYIAQgAEAU&amp;opi=89978449\">U.S. Department of Labor<\/a> report measuring new filings for unemployment benefits, serving as a leading indicator of economic health. the report is released on Thursdays, this data helps analysts track real-time labor market trends and forecast employment rates. <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior week 213K Initial jobs claims 205K vs 215K estimate 4 week moving average of initial jobless claims 210.75K versus 211.50K last week. Continuing claims 1.857M vs 1.850M estimate. Prior week 1.850M&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}