During the past week, which ended on August 17, 232,000 people registered as unemployed in the USA, according to the American labor market authority. It was a marginal increase from the previous week when 228,000 people were registered as unemployed.
The development was in line with expectations, according to the news agency Bloomberg's compilation of forecasts.
The total number of people receiving unemployment benefits increased to 1.86 million during the week that ended on August 10, which was slightly lower than the expected 1.87 million.
