Layoffs
Mike: I hope you all have a fine Friday and thanks for visiting The Layoff List. The layoff and unemployment news is in the next post just below this one, but I needed to vent about the latest in legislative stupidity. Today’s economic calendar is light, so I’m going to review the Cash-for-Clunkers legislation that […]
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Mike: Thursday’s Jobless Claims report shows that weekly claims increased, but continuing claims decreased for the first time after increasing for the past 21 weeks. The four-week moving average, which smooths weekly volatility fell to 615,000. The news media is trumpeting the continuing claims decline without mentioning the effect of people losing their unemployment benefits. There […]
Mike: Wednesday is a quieter economic report day, but the MBA Purchase Applications report follows yesterday’s Housing Starts report, which showed some improvement from April’s record low. Unfortunately, the MBA Purchase Applications report wasn’t the follow-through that many had expected. Purchase and refinance applications both fell as the U.S. mortgage applications plunge to near seven-month low report shows. […]