There was drama Friday in the Senate’s vote-a-rama. What Democrats had billed as the last step before Senate passage of the massive $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus economic package — a marathon series of rapid-fire amendment votes called vote-a-rama that was expected to last into Saturday — stalled out early, raising …
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The numbers: The number of initial jobless claims fell by almost 100,000 in early July to a four-month low 1.31 million, but the pace of layoffs is still quite high and appears to be bogging down an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Initial jobless claims, a rough gauge of …
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Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday after U.S. unemployment data gave the S&P 500 its first loss in five days. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index NIK, +0.74% closed up 0.7% after opening lower. The Hang Seng HSI, +1.17% in Hong Kong rose 0.7%, India’s Sensex 1, +0.62% rose 0.4% …
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The record surge in suddenly unemployed Americans likely grew by another 4 million last week to push the total to 25 million or more since the coronavirus pandemic shut down large parts of the U.S. economy a month and a half ago. Initial jobless claims in the seven days running …
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Some 5 million Americans likely applied for jobless benefits for the third week in a row in mid-April as the coronavirus outbreak took an even bigger bite out of the U.S. economy, pushing the unemployment rate to around 15% unofficially. Nearly 17 million people have already filed new jobless claims …
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The number of global cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 climbed above half a million on Thursday, and U.S. jobless claims soared to a historic level after workers were laid off or furloughed as non-essential services were ordered to close. The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits …
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