First-time applications for unemployment benefits fall to 340,000

... labor market is beginning to pick up steam," said Drew Matus, deputy U.S. chief economist at UBS Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, who correctly projected the drop in claims. "It's all consistent with 2013 being an okay year despite all the ...



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