{"id":429793,"date":"2026-04-23T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-initial-jobless-claims-214k-vs-210k-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:40:06","slug":"us-initial-jobless-claims-214k-vs-210k-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-initial-jobless-claims-214k-vs-210k-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"US initial jobless claims 214K vs 210K expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior was 208K (revised to 207K)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"listItem-bmN0_SHH\">4 week moving average of initial jobless claim 210.75K vs 210.0K last week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listItem-bmN0_SHH\">Continuing claims 1,821M vs 1.820M expected<\/li>\n<li class=\"listItem-bmN0_SHH\">Prior week 1.809M (revised from 1.818M)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The data continues to show steady &#8211; no hire\/no fire? &#8211; employment trends.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the continuing claims, the advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the<br \/>\nweek ending April 11 came in at 1,821,000, an increase of 12,000 from the previous week&#8217;s revised level. The previous week&#8217;s<br \/>\nlevel was revised down by 9,000 from 1,818,000 to 1,809,000.<\/p>\n<p> The 4-week moving average was 1,812,250, an increase<br \/>\nof 1,250 from the previous week&#8217;s revised average. The previous week&#8217;s average was revised down by 2,250 from<br \/>\n1,813,250 to 1,811,000.<\/p>\n<p>On the state side, the largest increases in initial claims for the week ending April 11 were in New York (+8,145), Connecticut (+1,747),<br \/>\nGeorgia (+1,288), Virginia (+1,227), and Texas (+1,074), while the largest decreases were in Oregon (-3,773), Illinois<br \/>\n (-2,112), Maryland (-910), New Jersey (-864), and Ohio (-492). <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior was 208K (revised to 207K) 4 week moving average of initial jobless claim 210.75K vs 210.0K last week Continuing claims 1,821M vs 1.820M expected Prior week 1.809M (revised from 1.818M) The data continues to show steady &#8211; no hire\/no fire? &#8211; employment trends. Looking at the continuing claims, the advance number for seasonally adjusted [&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-429793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429793","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=429793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}