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Markets Live Recap: Unemployment in Focus Today

By , Money Morning

This morning, U.S. weekly jobless claims came in at 4.4 million.

Just over 26 million Americans have now applied for unemployment... in the last five weeks.

That means the U.S. economy has wiped out all the job gains since the Great Recession.

Unemployment sits at 23%, and it doesn't look like we're close to reopening the economy anytime soon.

Despite that, investors shrugged off the news, bidding up the S&P 500 about 1.7% to start the day.

But stocks turned over mid-day and closed about flat.

Here's what our experts - Chris Johnson, Tom Gentile, D.R. Barton, Jr., and Shah Gilani - saw in the financial markets today, April 23...

Chris Johnson (8:45 a.m. EDT)

Tom Gentile (11 a.m. EDT)

D.R. Barton, Jr. (1:30 p.m. EDT)

Shah Gilani (3:45 p.m. EDT)

Catch us tomorrow - starting LIVE again at 8:45 a.m. EDT with Chris Johnson, right here.

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