WASHINGTON – The Ministry of Labor United States (U.S.) said new unemployment benefit claims last week period (14-20 March) fell 14 thousand to 442 thousand.

Reporting from Reuters on Thursday (25/3/2010), the average of new claims for the past four weeks fell by 11 thousand to 453,750.

Ministry of Labor in an official statement yesterday said that new unemployment claims on an annual basis fell to 453 thousand. Previously, analysts predict unemployment claims dropped to 450 thousand from the position of the period 28 February to 6 March in the number 457 thousand.

Analysts rate decrease is a signal occurs labor market stabilization. Approximately 8.4 million workers lost their jobs since December 2007 or when the recession began to happen in the U.S



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