Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending October 13, 2012

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2012.

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending October 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 388,000, an increase of 46,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 342,000. The 4-week moving average was 365,500, an increase of 750 from the previous week’s revised average of 364,750.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.5 percent for the week ending October 6, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point…