How NEAR Protocol reacted to Continued Jobless Claims on 23 April 2026

The release

Released by the Department of Labor on 23 April 2026 at 8:30 AM EDT. Continued Jobless Claims fell to 1785K for the week ending 11th Apr, from 1821K in the week ending 4th Apr.

It arrived at the same moment as Initial Jobless Claims, so the reaction measured on this page belongs to all of them together.

How NEAR Protocol moved

NEAR Protocol was at $1.390 when the figure came out. Fifteen minutes later it was unchanged, and an hour later unchanged. Its high-to-low range in the hour after was 0.72% of its price, against 1.44% in the hour before.

Measured by Clometrix

NEAR Protocol's volume ratio was 0.95x, against a typical 1.63x. Its volatility ratio could not be measured: the price barely moved through the rest of the day, so there is no ordinary quarter hour to compare against. The ratio compares the quarter hour of the release with an ordinary quarter hour that same day, where 1.00x is no change.

What made it matter

Since 2021, Continued Claims releases in the two weeks before a Fed decision have moved NEAR Protocol less than those at other times: a median volatility ratio of 1.07x across 89, against 1.31x across 193. This one came out 6 days before the Federal Reserve's 29 April rate decision.

Its record

Across 282 Continued Claims releases since 2021, NEAR Protocol's median volatility ratio is 1.24x.

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	1.39	1.39	1.39	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	5,298 NEAR
5 minutes	1.39	1.39	1.39	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	33,088 NEAR
10 minutes	1.39	1.39	1.39	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	48,761 NEAR
15 minutes	1.39	1.39	1.39	0.00%	0.00%	0.71%	62,689 NEAR
30 minutes	1.39	1.38	1.39	0.00%	0.72%	0.71%	301,528 NEAR
1 hour	1.39	1.38	1.39	0.00%	0.72%	1.43%	443,625 NEAR
2 hours	1.40	1.38	1.40	0.71%	1.43%	2.14%	874,417 NEAR
4 hours	1.41	1.38	1.41	1.42%	2.13%	2.14%	1.632M NEAR
6 hours	1.41	1.38	1.39	0.00%	2.13%	2.14%	2.963M NEAR
8 hours	1.41	1.37	1.41	1.42%	2.84%	2.13%	2.76M NEAR
12 hours	1.41	1.38	1.41	1.42%	2.13%	2.84%	4.696M NEAR

Every coin at this release

Coin	Price swing	Usual for Continued Claims	Reaction
Bitcoin	0.74x	1.52x	Quiet
Ethereum	0.58x	1.47x	Quiet
XRP	Not measured	1.18x	-
BNB	0.53x	1.42x	Quiet
Solana	0.58x	1.39x	Quiet
Dogecoin	0.62x	1.39x	Quiet
TRON	1.76x	1.33x	Strong
Cardano	0.75x	1.35x	Quiet
Chainlink	0.99x	1.43x	Quiet
Sui	0.53x	1.24x	Quiet
Bitcoin Cash	0.46x	1.34x	Quiet
Hedera	1.04x	1.32x	Quiet
Avalanche	0.50x	1.42x	Quiet
Litecoin	1.00x	1.38x	Quiet
Gram	0.00x	1.02x	Quiet
Shiba Inu	0.67x	1.34x	Quiet
Uniswap	0.00x	1.35x	Quiet
Polkadot	Not measured	1.31x	-
Aave	0.82x	1.38x	Quiet
Bittensor	1.54x	1.41x	Ordinary
NEAR Protocol	Not measured	1.24x	-
Aptos	0.75x	1.41x	Quiet
Internet Computer	1.00x	1.46x	Quiet
POL (prev. MATIC)	0.99x	1.42x	Quiet
Filecoin	0.33x	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 NEAR Protocol

Disclaimer

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