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Home/Macro / Fed/How high will unemployment get before 2027?
KalshiMacro / FedUpdated 8m ago

How high will unemployment get before 2027?

Market probability
2.4%
Little changed over 24 hours
137 days until the event deadline
Deadline: January 8, 2027 at 8:25 AM ET

Too little market data to assess this move — treat the probability with caution.

This venue reports too little volume or book data for this market to judge the trading behind the price.

How credible was the move?

Three separate questions — a move can be genuine while the latest price is still settling. Methodology →

Move validity

Is the move backed by real trading and depth?

Insufficient data

This venue reports too little volume or book data for this market to judge the trading behind the price.

Consensus stability

Has the market settled at the new probability?

Stable

The probability has held near its current level over the past several hours.

Contract clarity

Will the rules resolve without ambiguity?

High

The resolution rules are relatively specific, with a named source and a defined deadline.

What this market actually measures

If any U.S. seasonally adjusted U-3 unemployment rate for a month in 2026 is above 8%, the market resolves to Yes.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

If any U.S. seasonally adjusted U-3 unemployment rate for a month in 2026 is above 8%, the market resolves to Yes.

Resolution source: If any U.S. seasonally adjusted U-3 unemployment rate for a month in 2026 is above 8%, the…

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesJanuary 8, 2027 at 8:25 AM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Aug 24, 12:49 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Probability by deadline

The same event, priced across deadline contracts on this venue.

  • By Jan 87.0%
  • By Jan 416.0%

Extending the deadline from Jan 8 to Jan 4 adds about 9.0 percentage points of implied probability.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±21 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

low classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

Market data

24h volume

$21

Liquidity

$0

Total volume

Change (pts)1H0.06H+0.124H+0.17D+0.1
Score breakdown — Movement, Liquidity & Trust

ProbCast Trust Score

22/ 100 · Low

Weakly supported. Treat this number skeptically. Main caveat: thin liquidity.

ProbCast measures how reliable this market probability appears — not what to trade.

Movement2

Magnitude of recent probability change

Liquidity

Insufficient data — this venue reports no volume or book depth for this market, so liquidity can't be measured (unknown, not necessarily poor).

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  • Low liquidity score (39)

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
11Low
Where the price path tends to go next936 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~17h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Stale price.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

$19.4K

Category
Macro / Fed
Venue
Kalshi
Open interest
$8.7K
Spread
2.3 pts
Best bid
1.2%
Best ask
3.5%
7-day range
2.3% – 2.5%
Resolves
Jan 8, 2027
Resolution
If any U.S. seasonally adjusted U-3 unemployment rate for a month in 2026 is above 8%, the…

Trust breakdown

22/100 · Low

Weakly supported. Treat this number skeptically. Main caveat: thin liquidity.

  • Liquidity anchor+27
  • Price steadiness+29
  • Missing market data-15
  • Thin liquidity-20
Trust score22 / 100
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