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WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) -- First-time jobless claims fell by 12,000 in the week ended Saturday, the U.S. Labor Department said.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 377,000 from the previous week's revised estimate of 389,000.
The four-week rolling average, which gives a steadier indication of the direction of jobless claims rose by 1,750 to 377,750.
The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending May 26 were in Georgia (up by 2,078), Tennessee (up by 1,983) and Missouri (up by 1,898). The largest decreases were in Texas (down by 376), North Carolina (down by 371) and California (down by 344).
The U.S. unemployment rate is 8.2 percent, having risen 0.1 of a percentage point from April to May.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
Nobel Energy of Houston, which discovered Israel's big gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, is pressing the government to decide soon on an energy export policy as the prospect of an undersea pipeline to Turkey gains credibility.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
mid growing concerns about security threats from Syria and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has greatly reduced planned defense budget cuts.
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Properties repossessed by lenders in the first quarter took an average of 477 days to complete the foreclosure process, up from 414 days in the previous...
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Nobody likes spending cuts but the champion of that attitude is clearly President Barack Obama, who seems to have a very clear pain-avoidance agenda.
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