U.S. weekly jobless claims shoot up to 542,000
U.S. weekly jobless claims shoot up to 542,000 November 20th, 2008 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Weekly U.S. initial jobless claims rose by 27,000 to 542,000 in the week ending Nov. 15, the highest since July 1992, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of initial claims climbed by 15,750 to 506,500, the highest since January 1983. Continuing jobless claims rose by 109,000 to 4.01 million in the week ending Nov. 8 and the four-week average of continuing claims rose by 71
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