Jobless Claims Data Refuses To Accept 'Hard Landing' Scenario...

Initial jobless claims continues to ignore the 'other crappy data', printing 227k (in line with 230k exp) and basically unchanged at two-month lows...

jobless claims data refuses to accept hard landing scenario

Source: Bloomberg

On a non-seasonally-adjusted basis, initial claims are at their lowest in 10 months!! Of course! Why not.

Continuing claims also dropped (to three month lows)...

jobless claims data refuses to accept hard landing scenario

Source: Bloomberg

So, everything is awesome!

jobless claims data refuses to accept hard landing scenario

Your government-supplied data tells you so!

via September 5th 2024