MW: Dollar stays up after jobless claims come in flat
By Deborah Levine
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The dollar eased slightly but remained up on Thursday after the U.S. Labor Department said initial claims for unemployment benefits were flat in the latest week at 505,000. The dollar index (DXY 75.41, +0.23, +0.31%) , which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, traded at 75.427, easing from 75.455 before the data but still solidly up from 75.108 in late New York trading on Wednesday. Still to come is a manufacturing report from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve and the government's leading indicators index.
