In the U.S. the number of requests for unemployment benefit fell by 11,000

/IRBIS, July 30, 2010/ - In the U.S., the number of initial applications for unemployment benefit during the week that ended July 24, 2010, compared with that of the previous week fell by 11,000 and reached 457 000. Such data are announced on July 29 U.S. Department of Labor (US Department of Labor). To clarify this, the number of primary applications for the week totaled 468,000that ended July 17, 2010, but not 464,000 as previously reported. The average number of initial applications for unemployment benefits in the United States for four weeks (to July 24 of this year) amounted to 452,500 thousand, a decrease of 4,500 compared with corrected figure for the previous four-week period, fixed at 457,000. [2010-07-30]