The US government released some initial claim data: most have been revised upward.

According to a report from Jin10, on November 18, the U.S. government official website shows that for the week ending October 18, the number of initial jobless claims was 232,000; the number of continuing jobless claims was 1,957,000, which is a rise compared to the previous week's continuing jobless claims of 1,947,000. At the same time, for the week ending September 20, the initial jobless claims were revised up from 218,000 to 219,000, and the four-week average was revised up from 237,500 to 237,750. For the week ending September 13, the continuing jobless claims were revised down from 1,926,000 to 1,916,000. The U.S. government official website has not yet published the initial jobless claims data for the weeks ending September 27, October 4, October 11, October 25, November 1, and November 8. If the government is not shut down, the six sets of data should have been released.