US weekly jobless claims total 3.169 million, seven-week tally hits 33.5 million

First-time filings for unemployment insurance hit 3.17 million last week, bringing the total to 33.5 million over the past seven weeks, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The total was slightly higher than the 3.05 million expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones and below the previous week s 3.846 million, which was revised up by 7,000.

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