 A barrage of economic reports were released today. The Labor Department said that first-time unemployment benefit claims fell 6,000 last week to 233,000. Economists were looking for claims to drop down to 236,000. Elsewhere, the Commerce Department said that new orders for U.S. manufactured durable goods were unexpectedly higher in the month of May. Those were up a tenth of one percent. Elsewhere, the trade deficit widened a bit to 2.7 percent to $100 billion in May. That's according to the Commerce Department.