📅 Economic Calendar

Economic Release Dates

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Why these dates move markets

Once you know what each acronym on the calendar actually measures, the market’s reaction on release day stops looking arbitrary.

FOMC — where the US policy rate is set

The Federal Open Market Committee meets eight times a year to set the US policy rate. Rates feed straight into equity valuations through funding costs and bond yields, so markets often react more to the statement and press-conference language about what comes next than to the decision itself.

Each quarter the meeting also publishes the dot plot of members’ rate projections.

CPI — how much prices rose

The Consumer Price Index tracks, month by month, the prices of what households actually buy. A hotter-than-expected print raises the odds that rates stay high for longer, and that expectation reprices stocks and bonds immediately.

Core CPI strips out food and energy — the volatile parts — so the underlying trend is easier to see.

Jobs data — the economy’s thermometer

US non-farm payrolls are released on the first Friday of each month. More jobs mean more spending power, but also wage pressure that can push prices up, so the reading rarely points in only one direction.

The unemployment rate and average hourly earnings come out alongside it; you need all three to read the direction.

Earnings season

US companies generally report within two to six weeks after a quarter ends, so releases cluster from mid-January, April, July and October — the earnings season.

Prices tend to respond to the gap against expectations rather than the absolute figure, which is why a strong quarter can still be followed by a falling share price.

What the three importance levels mean

The importance rating is our own classification, based on how broadly an indicator tends to affect asset prices. Items like the policy rate, which touch everything, sit at the top; indicators confined to one industry sit lower.

It is a reading aid, not a forecast of how large the market reaction will be.

Release schedules and figures are collected automatically from public statistical agencies, and the descriptions follow those agencies’ published definitions. This page does not recommend buying or selling any asset.

For reference only — accuracy is not guaranteed. Schedules may change.

Data sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics·U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis·Federal Reserve (FOMC)