After the Thanksgiving Week debacle, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time remains back in the same - very low - range it has been in for the last four years at 224k...
Source: Bloomberg
After the shutdown, we have seen an uptick in initial jobless claims in the 'Deep TriState'...
Source: Bloomberg
Continuing jobless claims bounced back a little from the big Thanksgiving week plunge but remain well off recent highs...
Source: Bloomberg
So despite the uptick in the BLS-derived unemployment rate, jobless claims data show no signs of acute distress anywhere.