# US Weekly Jobless Claims

> US Weekly Jobless Claims is a paid API for AI agents from www.x402financialdata.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches the latest US weekly jobless claims data in one call, including initial claims, continuing claims, 4-week moving average, and week-over-week changes, sourced live from FRED.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.x402financialdata.com/jobless-claims
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-weekly-jobless-claims-af6050fb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8TBkgLuMKIk5qf6ojMtrE

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability us-weekly-jobless-claims-af6050fb
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest US weekly jobless claims for me — I need initial claims, continuing claims, the 4-week moving average, and the week-over-week change to assess labor market direction.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a single, consolidated call for all key US weekly jobless claims metrics (initial, continuing, 4-week MA, WoW change) without having to make three separate FRED API lookups. Ideal for macro dashboards, trading signal generation, or economic research where labor market leading indicators are needed quickly and cheaply at $0.01/call.

## Known failure modes

- FRED data feed delay causing stale or unavailable data for the current week
- Network or upstream FRED API outage returning an error
- No week-over-week change available when prior week data is missing
- Unexpected schema changes in FRED series causing parsing failures

## How this service works

US weekly jobless claims in one call, live from FRED: initial claims, continuing claims, and 4-week moving average of initial claims, with week-over-week change computed where available — a leading labor-market indicator that drives risk-off and day-trading directional calls. Replaces 3 separate FRED series lookups. Not ticker-specific. $0.01/call.

## Output

Returns the latest US weekly jobless claims figures including: initial claims count, continuing claims count, 4-week moving average of initial claims, and week-over-week change for available series — all consolidated from FRED in a single response.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-weekly-jobless-claims-af6050fb/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from www.x402financialdata.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/www.x402financialdata.com/llms.txt)