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Unemployment Claims Tick Lower, But Remain Historically High

08.27.2020 - By The Wall Street JournalPlay

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About 1 million Americans filed new applications for unemployment benefits last week. Federal Reserve signals it is likely to keep interest rates low. FDA grants emergency-use authorization to Abbott Laboratories' $5 rapid-response Covid-19 test. J.R. Whalen reports.

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