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Initial Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Decline to 190K Versus 195K Estimate

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment fell again last week, pointing to sustain

Initial Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Decline to 190K Versus 195K Estimate

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The labor market remains tight despite rising risks of a recession, contributing to keeping inflation elevated via solid wage gains.</p><p>&#34;The labor market shows no fresh signs of deterioration with minimal job layoffs despite the news of big tech firings the last several months, and this will harden the resolve of Fed officials to slow economic demand down with higher interest rates,&#34; said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS in New York.</p><p>Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 190,000 for the week ended Feb. 25, the Labor Department said. It was the seventh straight week that claims remained below 200,000. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 195,000 claims for the latest week.</p><p>Unadjusted claims dropped 9,297 to 201,710 last week. The decline was led by California and Kentucky. There were notable decreases in claims in Michigan, Ohio and Texas. 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The seasonal adjustment factors for 2023 will be updated at the end of March.</p><p>U.S. stocks opened lower. The dollar rose against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell.</p><p><b>High Inflation</b></p><p>Labor market resilience and stubbornly high inflation have increased the odds the Fed will raise interest rates at least three more times this year instead of twice. The U.S. central bank has hiked its policy rate by 450 basis points since last March from the near-zero level to the current 4.50%-4.75% range, with the bulk of the increases coming between May and December.</p><p>Inflation could remain high. A second report from the Labor Department showed unit labor costs - the price of labor per single unit of output - increased at a 3.2% annualized rate last quarter. That was revised up from the 1.1% pace reported last month.</p><p>Labor costs rose at a 6.9% rate in the third quarter, and notched hefty gains in the prior two quarters. 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Big increases in claims were reported in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.There is still no sign that high-profile layoffs, mostly in the technology sector, have had a material impact on the labor market, with economists and policymakers saying these companies hired too many workers during the COVID pandemic and were not representative of the overall economy. Economists also speculate that severance packages were keeping some laid-off workers from filing claims.\"It is possible that initial claims might not be fully capturing layoffs of higher-paid workers who might not qualify for unemployment benefits based on severance or might not file for benefits for some other reason,\" said Veronica Clark, an economist at Citigroup in New York.Economists also believed that seasonal adjustment factors, the model the government uses to strip out seasonal fluctuations from the data, were keeping claims lower. 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