A proxy for jobless claims data: Here's what to know
Youtube·2025-10-17 21:17
Haver Analytics, the economic data provider for CNBC and a lot of Wall Street in the economics world, has figured out a way to add up all the state reports on jobless claims, seasonally adjust them, and come up with a proxy that's pretty close to the government's weekly jobless claim report. Not perfect, but here it is. Week of October 11th, 217,000 versus 228.So, going down. It shows a decline here um on the weekly jobless claims if you use this proxy. When it comes to continuing claims, uh, we're up 1,942 ...