{"id":429206,"date":"2026-04-02T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-initial-jobless-claims-202k-vs-212k-estimate\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:40:05","slug":"us-initial-jobless-claims-202k-vs-212k-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-initial-jobless-claims-202k-vs-212k-estimate-429206\/","title":{"rendered":"US initial jobless claims 202K vs 212K estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The weekly initial and continuing claims shows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initial jobless claims 202K vs 212K estimate. Prior week revised to 211K from 210K<\/li>\n<li>4 week moving average of initial jobless claims 207.75K versus 210.75K last week.<\/li>\n<li>Continuing claims 1.841M vs 1.839M estimate.<\/li>\n<li>4 week moving average of continuing claims 1.839M vs 1.846M last week. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dominant theme is a &#8220;low-hire, low-fire&#8221; . The data reflects stability in the labor market amid a low-firing backdrop combined with slowing hiring.<\/p>\n<p>Low claims don&#8217;t mean the labor market is entirely healthy. Hiring can slow at the same time layoffs remain low, creating a market where people who have jobs keep them but people looking for work struggle to find new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>However this data is not reflective of a weakening labor market. <\/p>\n<p>The stock remain lower with the NASDAQ -476 points and the downtown -645 points. <\/p>\n<p>The US yields remain higher with the 10 year up 3.3 basis point at 4.354%. The 2-year is up 2 point basis points at 3.831% .<\/p>\n<p>Crude oil remains elevated and trades above $110 at $110.52. The high has extended to $110.74. With oil continuing its move to the upside that will be the focus for traders. The spike price from March 9 reached $119.48.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly initial and continuing claims shows: Initial jobless claims 202K vs 212K estimate. Prior week revised to 211K from 210K 4 week moving average of initial jobless claims 207.75K versus 210.75K&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-429206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429206","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=429206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}