Unemployment claims are up a little. Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs across the U.S., rose by 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 343,000 in the week ended July 20, the Labor Department said Thursday. Also, the prior week’s figure was revised to 336,000 new claims from an initially reported 334,000. Economists surveyed by Dow…
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