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Weekly Jobless Claims Rise To 719,000

Weekly jobless numbers are up. 

The Labor Department reports 719,000 Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week. That's a jump of 69,000 thousand over the previous week. 

Most analysts had been expecting today's numbers to come in at right around 684,000.

The biggest increases in initial claims were in Massachusetts, Texas, Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia. The sharpest declines were in Illinois, Ohio, California, New York, and Florida.

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