CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera June 4, 2024 17:46:00
>> encouraging news, certainly. jobless claims is our weekly look how many americans are looking for unemployment. and the number we got was 213,000. that's lower than economists were expecting and lower than the week prior. so, clearly, companies holding on to those workers they fought so hard to get over the last few years, as we dealt with labor shortages. and on the retail sales front, retail sales are on the surprise, too. they increased over the last month and over the last year, 9.1%, as we saw a strong spending for auto, cars, restaurants and people hang out in the summer and summer ac...