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The Economic Calendar

The Economic Calendar lists the scheduled macro releases and events that move markets — rate decisions, inflation prints, jobs reports — grouped by day, with impact bars showing how much each one typically matters.

Where the rows come from

Rows carrying a small BLS, BEA or Fed tag come from the official annual schedules those agencies publish — the Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI, PPI, the Employment Situation), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (GDP, PCE), and the Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting calendar. Untagged rows come from an aggregate feed that covers the rest of the world's releases.

When an official row and the aggregate feed describe the same release, the calendar keeps only the official row — one release, one line.

Actual vs prior

Before a release, a row shows the schedule and (when the feed carries one) a forecast and the previous print. Once the release is out, tagged US rows fill in the actual — read straight from the source of truth:

• CPI — year-over-year headline and core inflation, from BLS data.
• Employment Situation — the month's payrolls change and the unemployment rate, from BLS data.
• FOMC Rate Decision — the new federal funds target range, against the range in force before the meeting, from New York Fed reference-rate data.

Expand any row for the full breakdown: impact, event type, actual, forecast, and previous side by side.

Filters

The filter dialog cuts the list by expected impact, event type (inflation, employment, central bank…), and currency — and the Upcoming only view hides everything already released. Filters persist per browser.

Timing note: releases land on their official schedule (for US data, typically 08:30 or 14:00 US Eastern). The calendar refreshes every half hour, so a just-released print can take up to 30 minutes to fill in.