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UK Unemployment Rate

UK Unemployment Rate 18 March 2015

UK Unemployment Rate 18 March 2015: 5.7% for January 2015, above the 5.6% forecast and unchanged from 5.7% in December 2014. It was released on Wed 18 Mar 2015 at 09:30 UTC.

These figures were verified on 4 Oct 2026 from the source: Office for National Statistics. This page reports the release as published: the figures, the consensus forecast and what a print like it usually does to the currency.

Actual
5.7%
January 2015
Forecast
5.6%
The market consensus
Previous
5.7%
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

Above the forecast: A higher unemployment rate than forecast can weigh on sterling as markets see a looser labour market and greater scope for BoE cuts.

UK Unemployment Rate 18 March 2015: 5.7% for January 2015 against a 5.6% forecast, with the last 3 releases
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UK Unemployment Rate 18 March 2015: 5.7% vs 5.6% forecast (Office for National Statistics). Forex Fundamentals, https://forexfundamentals.com/economic-calendar/uk-unemployment/2015-03-18

The last 3 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
18 Mar 2015Jan5.7%5.6%5.7%
18 Feb 2015Dec5.7%5.8%5.8%
21 Jan 2015Nov5.8%5.9%6%
The release before:UK Unemployment Rate 18 February 2015The release after:UK Unemployment Rate 17 April 2015UK Unemployment Rate: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar