{"id":430020,"date":"2026-04-30T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-initial-jobless-claims-189k-vs-215k-estimate\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:40:13","slug":"us-initial-jobless-claims-189k-vs-215k-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/us-initial-jobless-claims-189k-vs-215k-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"US initial jobless claims 189K vs 215K estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior week 214K revised to 215K<\/li>\n<li>Iniital jobless claims 189K vs 215K estimate<\/li>\n<li>4 week moving average 207.5K vs 211.00 last week <\/li>\n<li>Continuing claims 1.785M vs 1.815M estimate. Prior 1.808M<\/li>\n<li>4 week moving average of continuing claims 1.797M vs 1.809M<\/li>\n<li>The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending April 18 were in New York (+2,885), California (+1,590),<br \/>\nTennessee (+1,562), Kentucky (+1,179), and South Carolina (+1,115), <\/li>\n<li>The largest decreases were in New Jersey<br \/>\n(-4,280), Pennsylvania (-2,742), Virginia (-1,528), Wisconsin (-1,248), and Indiana (-1,150)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior week 214K revised to 215K Iniital jobless claims 189K vs 215K estimate 4 week moving average 207.5K vs 211.00 last week Continuing claims 1.785M vs 1.815M estimate. Prior 1.808M 4 week moving average of continuing claims 1.797M vs 1.809M The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending April 18 were in New [&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-430020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430020","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=430020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}