Jobless claims often jump around a lot from week to week, and last week included the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which may have made people less inclined to file unemployment claims.
“My knee jerk response is to say ‘holiday week.’ This is an anomaly and we’re most likely to get a big gain next week to compensate for it,” says Robert Brusca, chief economist at Fact and Opinion Economics.
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