USA: Indicator of initial unemployment insurance claims comes below projection
You initial claims for unemployment insurance last week in the USA came below the forecast of 225 thousand benefits from market economists and the revised number from the previous week, according to data from the Department of Labor published this Thursday, 17. 222 thousand benefits were requested, against 226 thousand revised from last week.
Now the number of continuous requests came above the forecast of 1.5 million, with 1.507 million benefits requested. The result is also higher than last week's revised number of 1.494 million.
The indicator of construction of new houses October came above the forecast of 1.41 million, with 1.425 million. The number is lower than the previous result of 1.488 million.
To the building permits of October had a drop of 2.4%, against an increase of 1.4% in the September indicator
O industrial activity index The Philadelphia Fed's November index was -19.4, compared to a projection of -6.2 and a previous index of -8.7.
After the release of the data, at 10:39 am, the futures of Nasdaq 100 fell 1.19%, while those in S&P 500 and from Dow Jones fell 1.05% and 0.88%, respectively.
