Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending January 14, 2012

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2012. 

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending January 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 352,000, a decrease of 50,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 379,000, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 382,500.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.7 percent for the week ending January 7, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point…