week-ended-2026-08-01 · U.S. Department of Labor
Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims
One workspace for briefing, official publication status, market reaction, and comparable historical outcomes.
- Scheduled
- Aug 6 · 12:30:00 PM UTC
- Published
- Aug 6 · 12:30:00 PM UTC
- 0 ms late from schedule
- Available
- Oct 1 · 7:02:30 PM UTC
- 81032.5 min after publication
- Market clock
- Publication time
- New York sessions
Before release
Release Briefing
Weekly claims are the fastest recurring signal of labor-market deterioration or resilience.
- Event value
- 200,000 claims
- Initial Jobless Claims
- Current / event regime
- Not available
- Awaiting sufficient history
- Historical percentile
- 100th percentile
- Quintile 5 · five years
- Revision reliability
- Unavailable
- No stored revision history
At release
Release Monitor
| Indicator | Actual | Prior initial | Prior revised | Release move |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Jobless ClaimsLevel · Official | 200,000 claims | 198,000 claims | — | +2,000 claims |
| Continuing ClaimsLevel · Official | 1,799,000 claims | 1,777,000 claims | — | +22,000 claims |
“Release move” is initial minus the revised prior when available, otherwise initial minus the prior print. It is not a consensus surprise.
After release
Market Reaction
S&P 500 and Nasdaq cumulative returns from the last regular close before publication to the +1D, +5D, and +1M trading sessions.
| Benchmark | +1D | +5D | +1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 Index | -0.18% | +0.32% | +0.31% |
| Nasdaq Composite | -0.06% | +0.85% | +0.84% |
Regime + percentile matched
Historical Analogues
Analogues will appear once the selected component has enough prior releases in the same as-of regime and percentile quintile.
Stored release examples
No earlier event snapshots are stored for this release family yet.
Aggregate outcomes use only earlier releases of the selected component with the same as-of-release regime and five-year percentile quintile. The target event is excluded and pending trading horizons remain unavailable until enough closes exist.