Americans filing for jobless claims spiked to 374,000 last week. that was an increase of 66,000. remember last week s number, really good. 308,000. so we jumped pretty dramatically in this past week. it s state data, so we can get it even though the government is shut down. brian: it s crazy! what would cause that? i don t remember a projection being off by this much. if you re furloughed, you shouldn t be listed as jobless, should you? the prediction was off by a lot. we were looking at 310, 311,000. so such a small increase and we got this huge increase. the markets responding pretty favorably to this. futures are still up pretty sharply here in the u.s. we re going to have a much higher open. i guess everyone is look for and bracing for a kumbaya moment in d.c we re on day ten of this government shutdown and the markets down 325 points since october 1. ....