March 10, 2022

CPI (February 2022)

- CPI month/month, seasonally adjusted  +0.8% . Previous was 0.6%

- CPI year/year not seasonally adjusted   7.9%. Previous was 7.5%.

- Ex-Food & Energy month/month, seasonally adjusted  +0.5%. Previous was +0.6%

- Ex-Food & Energy not seasonally adjusted   year/year  6.4%. Previous was 6.0%

Source:  BLS  Details: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.toc.htm

 

Initial Jobless Claims (week ended 3/5/2022)

- Initial Claims seasonally adjusted  227,000. Previous was 216,000

- Initial Claims  unadjusted, totaled 2 18,072 in the week ending March 5, an increase of 22,025 (or 11.2 percent) from the previous week. 

- 4-Week Moving Average seasonally adjusted  231,250. Previous was  230,500

Numbers below are for the week ended 2/19:

Total receiving regular state UI decreased by 58,402 

Total receiving any UI decreased by 62,259

Source:  Labor Department   Details: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf