April 9, 2020
8:30am ET. The US Labor Department reported 6.6 million Americans filed first-time unemployment claims in the week ended April 4, 2020 versus a consensus estimate of 5.0 million.
This brings the total number of jobless claims over the past three weeks to more than 16 million.
This contrasts to the six-month period prior to a shutdown where, U.S. nonfarm payroll growth had averaged 221,000 a month.