Will the May 2026 unemployment rate be 4.0%?
Probability
2¢
1h
-1.3pp
24h
-7.6pp
24h Vol
$5.00
Liquidity
$5.0K
Canonical status
confidence: highSource status (Polymarket)
Derived status (Orrery)
Reason
Active market, expiry beyond the near-expiry window.
Resolution & Risk
LOW risk- End date
- Jun 5, 2026
- UMA status
- n/a
- Resolution source
- Market type
- Multi-outcome (neg-risk)
- Part of a multi-outcome event (neg-risk): only one market can resolve YES.
Probability (last 7 days)
+0.1pp 7dWhy did it move?
Structured · 2 factors- 01Price move
Down 8pp over 24h
Now 2¢; -1.3pp in the last hour.
- 02Liquidity
Thin liquidity
Only $5.0k of visible book — small orders can move the line. Treat the probability as a soft estimate.
What to track next
- Set an alert if probability recovers above 7¢ — that's where this move would be reversing.
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Resolution & Risk
LOW risk- End date
- Jun 5, 2026
- UMA status
- n/a
- Resolution source
- Market type
- Multi-outcome (neg-risk)
- Part of a multi-outcome event (neg-risk): only one market can resolve YES.
Timeline
critical · price · trade flowCritical
- Jun 5, 00:00 UTCScheduled resolutionLOW
Market resolves in 424.0h
Price movement
-7.6pp over the last 24h, now 2¢.
Biggest hourly move: +18.0pp at May 15, 17:00 UTC (to 20¢).
Show top 8 of 50 hourly moves
- 08:01 · -10.6pp → 2¢
- 05:00 · -15.3pp → 4¢
- May 16, 21:00 UTC · +11.9pp → 19¢
- May 15, 20:00 UTC · +11.1pp → 13¢
- May 15, 18:00 UTC · +13.2pp → 15¢
- May 15, 17:00 UTC · +18.0pp → 20¢
- May 14, 15:00 UTC · +11.2pp → 20¢
- May 14, 06:00 UTC · +12.2pp → 14¢
Recent Trades
No recent trades visible from the Data API for this market. That usually means liquidity is thin or this market is between event windows.
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Market Description
This market will resolve according to the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate (total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force, official unemployment rate denoted as U-3) reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Employment Situation Report for May 2026. The resolution source for this market is the Monthly Employment Situation Report, published by the BLS every month at https://www.bls.gov/bls/news-release/empsit.htm, specifically the U-3 measure in Table A-15 for the month in question. The relevant data release is scheduled for June 5, 2026, at 8:30 AM ET. This market will resolve as soon as the relevant data is issued. Any revisions to the data after the first release will not count toward this market's resolution. If no data for the specified month is released by the date the next month's data is scheduled to be released, this market will resolve based on data from the last available month. Note: the resolution source for this market reports unemployment to one decimal point. Thus, this is the level of precision that will be used when resolving the market.
Why this category?
confidence: mediumCategory
Source
Matched term
unemploymentReason
Question text contains "unemployment" — matched the Macro keyword rule.
Categories come from a deterministic engine: manual overrides (highest priority) → sports hard markers → event-tag rules → keyword rules → Gamma category hint → default. The engine is versioned in category-overrides.ts; methodology lives at /methodology.
FAQ — questions readers actually ask
What is the current Polymarket probability for "Will the May 2026 unemployment rate be 4.0%?"?
As of Mon, 18 May 2026 08:01:29 GMT, YES is priced at 2% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed -7.6pp in the last 24 hours, -1.3pp in the last hour, and +0.1pp in the last 7 days.
When does this market resolve?
This market resolves by Jun 5, 2026 (2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z). Resolution is determined from the market description on Polymarket.
What source determines the outcome?
Resolution is sourced from the market description on Polymarket. Polymarket's UMA optimistic oracle is the final settlement layer; if the published source is ambiguous, UMA tokenholders adjudicate. Source-extraction confidence is shown in the Resolution & Risk block above.
How much is being traded on this market?
$5.00 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $78.43. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $5.0K. Spread between best bid and best ask: 2.7¢.
Is this a trade recommendation?
No. Orrery describes — never predicts. Every signal on this market carries explicit Evidence, Backtest, and Action tiers. The Action is always one of: Watch only, Inspect timeline, Create alert, Verify source, or Ignore — never Buy or Sell. The probability above is the market's collective implied probability, not a forecast Orrery is publishing.
How fresh is this data and where does it come from?
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