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The Labor Department reported that people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in seven weeks. Applications for benefits dropped by 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 418,000.
Claims for the prior week were revised up to 432,000 from an original reading of 428,000. Economists had expected new requests for jobless benefits to drop to 424,000. The average of new claims over the past four weeks fell by 3,0
Continuing claims fell 43,000 to 3.68 million in the week ended June 25.
Exciting news in economic data today….
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From FNNO.com, this is the Financial News Network. I’m Cleo
Stiller-Farrell and this is your Midweek Market Wrap Up. The British
Bankers’ Association, which has the supervisory role of setting the
influential Libor rates, announced that it would be willing to give up
its...
The Wall Street Journal reports that home prices showed their best year-to-date gains since 2005, up 5.9% through July, signaling the housing market's steady march toward recovery. Also from the Wall Street Journal, IBM (IBM) will increase its efforts to sell so-called cloud computing services...
CEO Marissa Mayer is bringing in some more new blood to Yahoo!, tapping Ken Goldman as the company's new Chief Financial Officer. Goldman's appointment will take effect on October 22nd.
Goldman served as CFO at his most recent employer, Fortinet, having worked at Siebel Systems, Sybase,...
