Initial jobless claims print at 8:30 a.m.
Consensus is for a slight decline to 328,000 from 330,000 last week.
A bill to extend unemployment insurance for more than a million Americans failed in the Senate yesterday.
Here's what it's been looking like recently - it's come up a bit after having printed a "2-handle" - below 300,000 - last month.
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