SAM639 G5 R1863 G5 VM101 G5 departed JBA and sw
PAT008 C-560 west from Newport News Int'l
VVLL850 VVLL869 P-8 Poseidens and CNV4981 US Navy Clipper out of NAS Jax
VVLL869 set up over Myrtle Beach-this was the secondary destination of the AC that went to Johnson City previously.
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 4,427,000
Futures up a bit, Oil up and the dollar index over 100
In the week ending April 18, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 4,427,000, a decrease of 810,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised down by 8,000 from 5,245,000 to 5,237,000. The 4-week moving average was 5,786,500, an increase of 280,000 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised down by 2,000 from 5,508,500 to 5,506,500.
The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims increased to 5,786,500.
This was higher than the consensus forecast. The second graph shows seasonally adjust continued claims since 1967 (lags initial by one week while increasing sharply). At the worst of the Great Recession, continued claims peaked at 6.635 million, but then steadily declined.
Continued claims have already increased to a new record high of 15.976 million (SA) and will increase further over the next few weeks - and likely stay at that high level until the crisis abates.
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2020/04/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims_23.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/futures
https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
NATO06 and RAF PD E-3 Sentry AWACS in the North Sea
RASF MEDVC5A G5 out of SA nw- has gone to Houston, Boston and Chicago previously
chek't
it was busy here yesterday for sure. European flights of our stuff has dropped off a bit