the number of americans filing for firsttime unemployment insurance fell below 200000 for the first time since may a bad sign for the federal reserve which wants to see a hot job market cool down initial jobless claims came in at 193000 for the week ended sept 24 the lowest since april the decrease in jobless claims suggests that there’s plenty of strength left in the job market despite recent announcements of layoffs from companies including docusign ticker docu which said it would lay off 9 of its workforce and twilio twlo which is cutting the number of employees by 11