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Initial unemployment claims have not dropped below 210k for eight consecutive weeks, as a modest deceleration in hiring and unfavorable seasonal summer dynamics drove the four-week moving average north of 220k for the third-straight week. The path to a number at 210k or under is quite narrow, in my opinion, as it relates to this Thursday\u2019s print and the economist consensus agrees with me with the median estimate in the weekly Reuters poll at 218k amidst minimum and maximum projections of 210k and 225k. Against this backdrop, the \u201cYeses\u201d<\/a> at 210k and 200k are undervalued, in my view, at $0.75 and $0.93 and carry stronger-than-priced probabilities for profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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