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New Zealand Unemployment Rate

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 5 May 2015

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 5 May 2015: 5.8% for Q1 2015, above the 5.5% forecast and against 5.8%(R) in Q4 2014 (first reported as 5.7%). It was released on Tue 5 May 2015 at 23:45 UTC.

These figures were verified on 15 Oct 2026 from the source: Statistics New Zealand. This page reports the release as published: the figures, the consensus forecast and what a print like it usually does to the currency.

Actual
5.8%
Q1 2015
Forecast
5.5%
The market consensus
Previous
5.8%(R)
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

Above the forecast: An unemployment rate above forecast usually weakens the NZD as traders price in more labour-market slack and possible RBNZ easing.

New Zealand Unemployment Rate 5 May 2015: 5.8% for Q1 2015 against a 5.5% forecast, with the last 2 releases
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New Zealand Unemployment Rate 5 May 2015: 5.8% vs 5.5% forecast (Statistics New Zealand). Forex Fundamentals, https://forexfundamentals.com/economic-calendar/nz-unemployment/2015-05-05

The last 2 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
5 May 2015Q15.8%5.5%5.8%(R)
3 Feb 2015Q45.7%—5.4%
The release before:New Zealand Unemployment Rate 3 February 2015The release after:New Zealand Unemployment Rate 4 August 2015New Zealand Unemployment Rate: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar