Weekly Job Numbers report: 742,000 jobless claims last week

The number of people filing for unemployment increased last week.

- the number of people filing for- unemployment increased last - week.

- first-time jobless claims - totaled 742-thousand for- the week, according to the labo- department.

- that's about 30-thousand more - filings than economists - expected.

- continuing claims dropped by- nearly 430-thousand - - marking a pandemic-era low at - six-point-37 million.