Initial jobless claims climb more than expected

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Initial jobless claims climbed more than expected.

Claims, which count the number of people who applied for unemployment insurance for the first time in the past week, rose by 10,000 to 244,000 from the prior unrevised reading of 234,000.

Economists forecast claims would rise to 240,000.

The four-week moving average clocked in at 243,000, a decrease of 4,250 from the previous week’s unrevised average of 247,250