Initial jobless claims climbed 14,000 to 348,000 in the week ended February 22, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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Claims for the week ended February 15 were revised to 334,000 from the 336,000 initially reported.
Continuing jobless claims were 2.964 million in the week ended February 15, up from the downwardly revised 2.956 million the week before, first reported as 2.981 million.
Economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected 335,000 initial and 2.980 million continuing claims.
The four-week average of initial claims were unchanged in the week ended February 22 at 338,250.
