• Prior reading of 352K revised to 355K
  • Continuing jobless claims 3.00M v 3.06M exp
  • 4 week average 339K v 361K prior

Small pop in USD/JPY to 99.25 as the weekly employment figures improve but the Labor Dept. warned that we are not yet out of the period of big swings in the unadjusted data.

initial jobless claims April 25, 2013

S&P 500 futures are also showing gains after the release and were last up 6 points to 1580.