Initial unemployment claims rose by 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 225,000 for the week ended May 30, the highest weekly print since the first week of February and above the 212,000 economists expected. The prior week was 212,000. Continuing claims, reported with a one-week lag, eased by 8,000 to 1.777 million, and the insured unemployment rate held at 1.2%. One weekly print is noise on its own, but the level matters with May payrolls due Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Claims in the low-to-mid 200,000s have so far accompanied positive monthly payroll prints; a sustained move higher would be the first quantitative signal that the cooling labor market is tipping into outright weakness.