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week-ended-2026-09-26 · U.S. Department of Labor

Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

One workspace for briefing, official publication status, market reaction, and comparable historical outcomes.

Scheduled
Oct 1 · 12:30:00 PM UTC
Published
Oct 1 · 12:30:00 PM UTC
0 ms late from schedule
Available
Oct 1 · 7:02:48 PM UTC
392.8 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.

Analysis componentOpen five-year indicator analysis
Event value
197,000 claims
Initial Jobless Claims
Current / event regime
Low
z -1.27
Historical percentile
11th percentile
Quintile 1 · five years
Revision reliability
High
100/100 · 8 releases

Relevant market exposures

At release

Release Monitor

IndicatorActualPrior initialPrior revisedRelease move
Initial Jobless ClaimsLevel · FRED fallback197,000 claims198,000 claims—-1,000 claims
Continuing ClaimsLevel · FRED fallback1,701,000 claims1,712,000 claims—-11,000 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+0.19%+1.96%Pending
Nasdaq Composite+0.04%+2.52%Pending

Regime + percentile matched

Historical Analogues

Low-sample analogue history · 8 evaluated

S&P 500 Index

Low · quintile 1

1 matching releases
WindowMeanMedianPositiven
+1D+1.14%+1.14%100%1
+5D+2.04%+2.04%100%1
+1M+2.55%+2.55%100%1

Low sample: interpret these outcomes cautiously.

Nasdaq Composite

Low · quintile 1

1 matching releases
WindowMeanMedianPositiven
+1D+1.69%+1.69%100%1
+5D+3.69%+3.69%100%1
+1M+2.83%+2.83%100%1

Low sample: interpret these outcomes cautiously.

Stored release examples

week-ended-2026-09-05

Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

89% match
Initial Jobless Claims: 207,000 claimsContinuing Claims: 1,765,000 claims
S&P 500 Index
D0 -0.58% · D5 +0.02%
Nasdaq Composite
D0 -0.65% · D5 +0.63%
Open workspace

week-ended-2026-09-19

Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

81% match
Initial Jobless Claims: 198,000 claimsContinuing Claims: 1,712,000 claims
S&P 500 Index
D0 -0.02% · D5 -0.51%
Nasdaq Composite
D0 +0.01% · D5 -0.24%
Open workspace

week-ended-2026-08-22

Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

65% match
Initial Jobless Claims: 204,000 claimsContinuing Claims: 1,771,000 claims
S&P 500 Index
D0 +0.72% · D5 +0.94%
Nasdaq Composite
D0 +1.57% · D5 +1.74%
Open workspace

week-ended-2026-08-29

Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

59% match
Initial Jobless Claims: 207,000 claimsContinuing Claims: 1,775,000 claims
S&P 500 Index
D0 +1.06% · D5 -0.13%
Nasdaq Composite
D0 +1.4% · D5 +0.44%
Open workspace

week-ended-2026-08-15

Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

50% match
Initial Jobless Claims: 207,000 claimsContinuing Claims: 1,796,000 claims
S&P 500 Index
D0 -0.87% · D5 +0.3%
Nasdaq Composite
D0 -1.0% · D5 +0.8%
Open workspace

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.