Bloomberg (04/12/12) Timothy R. Homan; Alex Kowalski

More people than expected filed claims for jobless benefits last
week, an indication job growth is slowing. Jobless claims rose
13,000 to 380,000, the highest since Jan. 28, according to the
U.S. Department of Labor. Claims from a week earlier were revised
upward to 367,000 from 357,000.

Adecco Group North America said demand for employees is rising in
some fields. “We do continue to see increases in the health
care and manufacturing areas,” Janette Marx, an Adecco
senior vice president, said in an interview last week.
“Those areas definitely have been showing some nice
increases.”