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UK Unemployment Rate

UK Unemployment Rate 17 July 2018

UK Unemployment Rate 17 July 2018: 4.2% for May 2018, in line with the forecast and unchanged from 4.2% in April 2018. It was released on Tue 17 Jul 2018 at 08:30 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
4.2%
May 2018
Forecast
4.2%
The market consensus
Previous
4.2%
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

In line with the forecast: Sterling usually moves little unless the wage or employment details in the same report surprise.

UK Unemployment Rate 17 July 2018: 4.2% for May 2018 against a 4.2% forecast, with the last 12 releases
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UK Unemployment Rate 17 July 2018: 4.2% vs 4.2% forecast (Office for National Statistics). Forex Fundamentals, https://forexfundamentals.com/economic-calendar/uk-unemployment/2018-07-17

The last 12 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
17 Jul 2018May4.2%4.2%4.2%
12 Jun 2018Apr4.2%4.2%4.2%
15 May 2018Mar4.2%4.2%4.2%
17 Apr 2018Feb4.2%4.3%4.3%
21 Mar 2018Jan4.3%4.4%4.4%
21 Feb 2018Dec4.4%4.3%4.3%
24 Jan 2018Nov4.3%4.3%4.3%
13 Dec 2017Oct4.3%4.2%4.3%
15 Nov 2017Sep4.3%4.3%4.3%
18 Oct 2017Aug4.3%4.3%4.3%
13 Sep 2017Jul4.3%4.4%4.4%
16 Aug 2017Jun4.4%4.5%4.5%
The release before:UK Unemployment Rate 12 June 2018The release after:UK Unemployment Rate 14 August 2018UK Unemployment Rate: every recent resultThis week’s economic calendar