ADA Volatility Analysis for Continued Claims, 9th April 2026

Data Analysis

The release

Released by the Department of Labor on 9 April 2026 at 8:30 AM EDT. Continued Jobless Claims rose to 1818K for the week ending 28th Mar, from 1787K in the week ending 21st Mar.

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.

How Cardano moved

Cardano was at $0.2503 when the figure came out. Fifteen minutes later it was 0.28% higher, and an hour later unchanged. Its high-to-low range in the hour after was 0.6% of its price, against 0.56% in the hour before.

Measured by Clometrix

Cardano's volatility ratio was 1.50x, against 1.35x for a typical Continued Claims release since 2021. Its volume ratio was 0.54x, against a typical 1.63x. That is about what this release usually does. 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.

What made it matter

Since 2021, Continued Claims releases in the two weeks before a Fed decision have moved Cardano about as much as those at other times: a median volatility ratio of 1.33x across 93, against 1.36x across 206. This one was not within two weeks of a Fed decision. Its own ratio of 1.50x compares with 1.36x for those, about what its circumstances would suggest.

Its record

Across 299 Continued Claims releases since 2021, Cardano's median volatility ratio is 1.35x.

About 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.