FREEDOMCORE FAMILY
ATLAS Market Intel
Atlas Macro Radar Research Workstation Atlas Pro
ATLAS / Macro Radar / Initial Claims

US Initial Jobless Claims

Labour · source: Department of Labor

Initial Claims is the weekly count of new unemployment-benefit filings — the fastest read on labour-market slack.

Latest
226K
Previous
230K
Surprise vs trend
+1.4σ
above its recent 12-release trend

Trend — last releases

2026-06-13226K
2026-06-06230K
2026-05-30225K
2026-05-23212K
2026-05-16210K
2026-05-09212K

How Atlas reads Initial Claims

Atlas shows the real released figure and a surprise score — how far the latest print sits from its own trailing 12-release trend, in standard deviations. A reading above +0.5σ ran hot versus recent history; below −0.5σ ran cold. There is no invented forecast: where a consensus is not freely available, Atlas shows the trend instead of guessing a number. Every figure here is the real value published by the Department of Labor and distributed via FRED.

Related market impact rails

Updated 2026-06-21. Figures sourced from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) and the Department of Labor. Research and educational use only. Not financial advice. No brokerage execution.