How Chainlink reacted to Continued Jobless Claims on 29 October 2026

The release

Released by the Department of Labor on 29 October 2026 at 8:30 AM EDT. Continued Jobless Claims fell to 1701K for the week ending 17th Oct, from 1728K in the week ending 10th Oct.

It arrived at the same moment as Personal Income and Outlays, Personal Consumption Expenditures, Core Personal Consumption Expenditures, Initial Jobless Claims and Gross Domestic Product Report, so the reaction measured on this page belongs to all of them together.

Measured by Clometrix

Chainlink's volatility ratio was 1.31x, against 1.43x for a typical Continued Claims release since 2021. Its volume ratio was 0.98x, against a typical 1.62x. Under 1.5x is not a reaction at all: the market barely noticed this release. Both compare the quarter hour of the release with an ordinary quarter hour that same day, where 1.00x is no change: volatility is how far the price ranged, volume how much traded.

How Chainlink moved

Chainlink was at $11.62 when the figure came out. Fifteen minutes later it was 0.17% higher, and an hour later 0.69% higher. Its high-to-low range in the hour after was 0.95% of its price, against 0.69% in the hour before.

What made it matter

Since 2021, Continued Claims releases in the two weeks before a Fed decision have moved Chainlink about as much as those at other times: a median volatility ratio of 1.45x across 92, against 1.38x across 204. This one came out the day after the Federal Reserve's 28 October rate decision. Its own ratio of 1.31x compares with 1.38x for those, about what its circumstances would suggest.

How it compares

Across 296 Continued Claims releases since 2021, Chainlink's usual price swing is 1.43x. This one was 0.91 times the usual.

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Thin line: Continued Claims's usual, 1.43x. Thick line: this release, 1.31x. Under 1.5x counts as no reaction at all.

Minute by minute

Each row is the time after the release, with the same length of time before it for comparison.

After	High	Low	Close	Change	Range	Range before	Volume
1 minute	11.67	11.62	11.62	0.00%	0.43%	0.17%	7,055 LINK
5 minutes	11.67	11.59	11.61	-0.09%	0.69%	0.34%	11,619 LINK
10 minutes	11.67	11.59	11.65	0.26%	0.69%	0.34%	16,835 LINK
15 minutes	11.67	11.59	11.64	0.17%	0.69%	0.43%	19,242 LINK
30 minutes	11.67	11.59	11.63	0.09%	0.69%	0.69%	32,030 LINK
1 hour	11.70	11.59	11.70	0.68%	0.94%	0.69%	75,219 LINK
2 hours	11.70	11.58	11.65	0.26%	1.03%	1.55%	160,931 LINK
4 hours	12.02	11.58	11.91	2.43%	3.66%	2.06%	547,068 LINK
6 hours	12.02	11.58	11.71	0.77%	3.66%	2.49%	704,278 LINK
8 hours	12.02	11.41	11.91	3.95%	5.07%	4.56%	727,731 LINK
12 hours	12.02	10.27	10.33	-12.49%	14.56%	4.56%	4.015M LINK

Every coin at this release

Coin	Price swing	Usual for Continued Claims	Reaction
Bitcoin	1.24x	1.52x	Quiet
Ethereum	1.46x	1.47x	Quiet
XRP	0.00x	1.18x	Quiet
BNB	0.88x	1.42x	Quiet
Solana	1.51x	1.39x	Ordinary
Dogecoin	1.28x	1.39x	Quiet
TRON	0.67x	1.33x	Quiet
Cardano	1.09x	1.35x	Quiet
Chainlink	1.31x	1.43x	Quiet
Sui	1.09x	1.24x	Quiet
Bitcoin Cash	0.89x	1.34x	Quiet
Hedera	1.16x	1.32x	Quiet
Avalanche	0.99x	1.42x	Quiet
Litecoin	1.10x	1.38x	Quiet
Gram	0.00x	1.02x	Quiet
Shiba Inu	0.99x	1.34x	Quiet
Uniswap	1.00x	1.35x	Quiet
Polkadot	1.14x	1.31x	Quiet
Aave	1.27x	1.38x	Quiet
Bittensor	1.02x	1.41x	Quiet
NEAR Protocol	1.25x	1.24x	Quiet
Aptos	1.76x	1.41x	Ordinary
Internet Computer	1.01x	1.46x	Quiet
POL (prev. MATIC)	1.29x	1.42x	Quiet
Filecoin	1.14x	1.27x	Quiet

What is Continued Jobless Claims?

The weekly claims report is released Thursdays at 8:30 a.m. ET by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Continued claims, also referred to as insured unemployment, is the number of people who have already filed an initial claim and who have experienced a week of unemployment and then filed a continued claim to claim benefits for that week of unemployment. Continued claims data are based on the week of unemployment, not the week when the initial claim was filed.

Every Continued Claims release for Chainlink

Questions about this page

Is 1.31x a lot?

No. Under 1.5x the market barely noticed the release.

Will the next Continued Claims do the same?

Nobody can say. A forecast shows the range Chainlink moved in after past Continued Claims releases, so you can plan for the likely size of the move.

Do weekly jobless claims move crypto?

Weekly jobless claims have a median Bitcoin price swing of 1.52x since 2021, which places Initial Claims and Continued Claims in Tier 3. They are released at 8:30 a.m. ET. When a claims release falls on the same minute as a bigger report, such as CPI, the reaction belongs to both. Clometrix measures 296 claims releases in the record since 2021.

Disclaimer

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