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300. but again, expecting 423 and having that big jump up last week, 474,000 number, it was way unexpected and way too high. in the right direction. let's see if we can get under 400. we were there earlier in the year for a couple of weeks in a row. then it started to tick back up. but that number needs to get back down. i have a hunch this will drive some oil prices up, too. every time the job situation looks a little better, starts to improve, oil prices start to move back up. >> brian: who is doing that? >> it's a perception that the economy is starting to roll again and things get better. ...

Gasoline, and that money going abroad opposed to being spent here and creating jobs could cause these numbers to start to fall. also, we need to create about 360,000 jobs each month to bring unemployment down to about 6% over the next 3, 3 1/2 years. >> your point was we needed to add 13 million private sector jobs to get to that number. the number on a private sector side, 268,000 jobs were added. it shows businesses are out there and they are hiring it appears. what do you make of that when you break it down and look at manufacturing and retail and the rest. >> i think with better number as ...

Direction but going in the wrong direction rapidly, last week, 429,000 and the week before, 410,000 and there is a happened increase of people applying the first time for jobless benefits and continuing claims, people who already on and continually looking for assistance was close to 4 million people and a lot of people on the unemployment line and a lot of people are unemployed, and, the bottom line is the labor market, labor market is still on its ear and not recovering as quickly as we'd like to see it happen, and, the housing market is still not doing well and the only thing that is recove...

♪ [ male annouer ] with amazing innovation, driven by rentless competition, wireless puts the world at your command. ♪ >> gretchen: fox business alert. the labor department releasing the latest weekly jobless numbers. 474,000 first time unemployment claims were filed last week. that's an increase of 43,000. they were expecting 412,000 claims. of course, eric bolling from the "fox business" network is here

A fund to make the first payments. futures are down after the number of people filing for first time unemployment claims surged to 474,000 last week. that is the highest total in eight months. just in to cnn, the royal family says prince william and his new bride, catherine middleton, are going to california in july. her first official visit to the u.s. and catherine's first-ever visit to the u.s. american morning is back after the break.