WASHINGTON — Initial jobless claims increased 25,000 to 410,000 in the week ended Feb. 12, the first increase in three weeks, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Continuing jobless claims increased to 3.911 million for the week ending Feb. 5, up from 3.910 million the previous week.
Economists expected 400,000 initial claims and 3.90 million continuing claims, according to the median estimate from Thomson Reuters.