Economic Calendar

BabyPips.com's Economic Calendar is your trading companion to avoid event risk. Event risk is anything that will move markets, but that you can't see coming. Use our economic calendar to inform yourself of important news events and economic data reports that may shake up the financial markets and impact your trading. Don’t be blindsided.

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May 2	Sunday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
22:30	AUD	AIG Manufacturing Index	med	61.7	60.0	59.9
23:00	AUD	AIG Manufacturing Index	med	59.7	59.6	56.8

May 3	Monday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CNY	Chinese May Day	low
All Day	JPY	Constitution Memorial Day	low
All Day	GBP	May Day Bank Holiday	low
01:00	AUD	TD-MI Inflation Gauge MoM	low	0.4%	0.6%	0.4%
01:30	AUD	ANZ Job Advertisements MoM	low	4.7%		7.8%*
06:00	EUR	German Retail Sales MoM	med	7.7%	2.9%	2.7%*
06:00	EUR	German Retail Sales YoY	med	11.0%	-3.2%	-6.6%*
07:30	CHF	procure.ch Manufacturing PMI	low	69.5	67.0	66.3
07:50	EUR	French Markit Manufacturing PMI Final	low	58.9	59.2	59.3
07:55	EUR	German Markit Manufacturing PMI Final	med	66.2	66.4	66.6
08:00	EUR	Markit Manufacturing PMI Final	med	62.9	63.3	62.5
09:00	EUR	French New Car Registrations YoY	low	568.6%	195.0%	191.4%
13:00	EUR	French 12-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.62%		-0.62%*
13:00	EUR	French 6-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.63%		-0.63%*
13:00	EUR	French 3-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.63%		-0.63%*
13:30	CAD	Markit Manufacturing PMI	med	57.2	56.0	58.5
13:45	USD	Manufacturing PMI	med	60.5	60.6	59.1
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing Prices	low	89.6	86.0	85.6
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing New Orders	low	64.3	68.0	68.0
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing Employment	low	55.1	60.0	59.6
14:00	USD	Construction Spending MoM	med	0.2%	1.9%	-0.6%*
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing PMI	med	60.7	65.0	64.7
15:00	EUR	ECB Enria Speech	low
15:30	USD	6-Month Bill Auction	low	0.04%		0.04%*
15:30	USD	3-Month Bill Auction	low	0.02%		0.02%
16:00	EUR	German Bundesbank Balz Speech	low
18:10	USD	Fed Williams Speech	med
18:20	USD	Fed Chair Powell Speech	med

May 4	Tuesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CNY	Chinese May Day	low
All Day	JPY	Greenery Day	low
01:30	AUD	Exports MoM	low	-2.0%	2.0%	-1.3%*
01:30	AUD	Imports MoM	low	4.0%	6.0%	4.7%*
01:30	AUD	Balance of Trade	high	5.57B	7.0B	7.6B*
01:30	AUD	Home Loans MoM	med	3.3%	-1.1%	-1.8%
01:30	AUD	Investment Lending for Homes	low	12.7%		4.5%
04:30	AUD	RBA Interest Rate Decision	high	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
06:45	EUR	French Budget Balance	low	-60.07B	-40.0B	-47.47B
07:00	CHF	Consumer Confidence	high	-7.1	1.5	-14.2*
08:30	GBP	Markit/CIPS Manufacturing PMI Final	med	60.9	60.7	58.9
08:30	GBP	Net Lending to Individuals MoM	low	11.3B	4.5B	5.3B*
08:30	GBP	Mortgage Approvals	med	82.7k	90.0k	87.4k*
08:30	GBP	Mortgage Lending	med	11.8B	5.91B	6.4B*
08:30	GBP	BoE Consumer Credit	med	-0.5B	-0.6B	-1.17B*
12:30	CAD	Imports	low	51.76B		49.07B*
12:30	CAD	Exports	low	50.62B		50.49B*
12:30	CAD	Balance of Trade	high	-1.14B	0.5B	1.42B*
12:30	CAD	Building Permits MoM	low	5.7%	1.5%	3.1%*
12:30	USD	Balance of Trade	high	-74.4B	-73.4B	-70.5B*
12:30	USD	Exports	low	200.03B	201.5B	187.6B*
12:30	USD	Imports	low	274.48B	274.9B	258.1B*
12:55	USD	Redbook MoM	low
12:55	USD	Redbook YoY	low	14.2%		13.9%
14:00	USD	IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism	med	54.4	57.0	56.4
14:00	USD	Factory Orders ex Transportation	low	1.7%	1.1%	-0.2%*
14:00	USD	Factory Orders MoM	med	1.1%	1.5%	-0.5%*
14:30	NZD	Global Dairy Trade Price Index	low	-0.7%		-0.1%
15:30	USD	119-Day Bill Auction	low
15:30	USD	42-Day Bill Auction	low
15:30	USD	42-Day Bill Auction	low	0.01%		0.01%
20:30	USD	API Crude Oil Stock Change	med	-7.7M		4.32M*
22:30	AUD	Ai Group Construction Index	low	59.1	61.6	61.8
22:45	NZD	Participation Rate	low	70.4%	70.3%	70.2%
22:45	NZD	Labour Costs Index YoY	low	1.6%	2.1%	1.6%
22:45	NZD	Labour Costs Index QoQ	low	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%
22:45	NZD	Employment Change QoQ	med	0.6%	0.2%	0.6%
22:45	NZD	Unemployment Rate	med	4.7%	5.0%	4.9%
23:00	USD	Total Vehicle Sales	med	18.5M		17.7M
23:00	AUD	Markit Services PMI Final	med	58.8	58.6	55.5
23:00	AUD	Markit Composite PMI Final	low	58.9	58.8	55.5

May 5	Wednesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CNY	Chinese May Day	low
All Day	JPY	International Children's Day	low
01:30	AUD	Building Permits MoM Prel	med	17.4%	2.0%	20.1%*
01:30	AUD	RBA Chart Pack	low
06:30	CHF	Inflation Rate MoM	low	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
06:30	CHF	Inflation Rate YoY	med	0.3%	0.5%	-0.2%
07:50	EUR	French Markit Services PMI Final	low	50.3	50.4	48.2
07:50	EUR	French Markit Composite PMI Final	low	51.6	51.7	50.0
07:55	EUR	German Markit Services PMI Final	med	49.9	50.1	51.5
07:55	EUR	German Markit Composite PMI Final	low	55.8	56.0	57.3
08:00	EUR	Markit Services PMI Final	med	50.5	50.3	49.6
08:00	EUR	Markit Composite PMI Final	low	53.8	53.7	53.2
08:00	GBP	New Car Sales YoY	low	3,176.6%	100.0%	11.5%
09:00	EUR	PPI MoM	low	1.1%	0.9%	0.5%
09:00	EUR	PPI YoY	low	4.3%	4.1%	1.5%
09:30	EUR	German New Car Registrations YoY	low	90.0%		35.9%
09:40	EUR	German 5-Year Bobl Auction	low	-0.61%		-0.66%
10:45	EUR	German Bundesbank Wuermeling Speech	low
11:00	USD	MBA Mortgage Applications	low	-0.9%		-2.5%
11:00	USD	MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate	low	3.18%		3.17%
12:15	USD	ADP National Employment Report	high	742.0k	785.0k	565.0k*
13:30	USD	Fed Evans Speech	med
13:45	USD	Markit Composite PMI Final	med	63.5	62.2	59.7
13:45	USD	Markit Services PMI Final	med	64.7	63.1	60.4
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices	low	76.8	75.0	74.0
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing New Orders	low	63.2	68.0	67.2
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing Employment	low	58.8	57.6	57.2
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing Business Activity	low	62.7	69.8	69.4
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI	med	62.7	64.2	63.7
14:00	EUR	ECB Lane Speech	low
14:30	USD	EIA Heating Oil Stocks Change	low	-0.02M		-0.18M*
14:30	USD	EIA Gasoline Stocks Change	med	0.74M		0.09M*
14:30	USD	EIA Refinery Crude Runs Change	low	0.23M		0.25M*
14:30	USD	EIA Cushing Crude Oil Stocks Change	med	0.25M		0.72M*
14:30	USD	EIA Crude Oil Imports Change	low	-2.75M		1.22M*
14:30	USD	EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change	med	-7.99M		0.09M
14:30	USD	EIA Distillate Stocks Change	low	-2.9M		-3.34M*
14:30	USD	EIA Gasoline Production Change	low	-0.48M		0.24M*
14:30	USD	EIA Distillate Fuel Production Change	low	-0.13M		0.07M*
15:00	USD	Fed Rosengren Speech	med
15:30	USD	105-Day Bill Auction	low
15:30	USD	154-Day Bill Auction	low
15:30	USD	119-Day Bill Auction	low	0.03%		0.03%*
16:00	USD	Fed Mester Speech	med
19:00	USD	Fed Evans Speech	med
22:30	CAD	BoC Gov Macklem Speech	med
22:45	NZD	Building Permits MoM	low	17.9%		-19.3%*
23:50	JPY	BoJ Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes	med

May 6	Thursday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	GBP	Local Elections	med
04:00	NZD	ANZ Business Confidence Prel	low	7.0	3.0	-2.0
06:00	EUR	German Factory Orders MoM	med	3.0%	1.5%	1.4%*
07:30	EUR	Construction PMI	low	50.1	52.0	50.1
07:30	EUR	French Construction PMI	low	49.8	51.9	49.7
07:30	EUR	German Construction PMI	med	46.2	52.5	47.5
08:30	GBP	Markit/CIPS Composite PMI Final	low	60.7	60.0	56.4
08:30	GBP	Services PMI	med	61.0	60.1	56.3
09:00	EUR	Retail Sales YoY	med	12.0%	8.3%	-1.5%*
09:00	EUR	Retail Sales MoM	low	2.7%	1.0%	4.2%*
09:00	EUR	French Retail Sales MoM	low	-1.0%	0.6%	1.6%*
09:00	EUR	French Retail Sales YoY	low	21.3%	8.5%	3.9%*
09:00	EUR	French 10-Year OAT Auction	low	0.13%		0.0%
09:00	AUD	RBA Debelle Speech	med
10:30	EUR	ECB Guindos Speech	low
11:00	GBP	Official Bank Rate	high	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
11:00	GBP	BoE Quantitative Easing	med	875.0B	875.0B	875.0B
11:00	GBP	Monetary Policy Report	med
11:00	GBP	MPC Meeting Minutes	med
11:00	GBP	BoE MPC Vote Hike	med	0.0	0.0	0.0
11:00	GBP	BoE MPC Vote Unchanged	med	9.0	9.0	9.0
11:00	GBP	BoE MPC Vote Cut	med	0.0	0.0	0.0
11:30	USD	Challenger Job Cuts	low	22.91k	25.0k	30.6k*
12:30	USD	Unit Labour Costs QoQ Prel	med	-0.3%	-0.8%	5.6%*
12:30	USD	Nonfarm Productivity QoQ Prel	med	5.4%	3.2%	-3.8%*
12:30	USD	Continuing Jobless Claims	low	3,690.0k	3,610.0k	3,653.0k*
12:30	USD	Jobless Claims 4-week Average	med	560.0k	562.5k	621.0k*
12:30	USD	Initial Jobless Claims	med	498.0k	545.0k	590.0k*
13:00	USD	Fed Williams Speech	med
13:15	EUR	ECB Schnabel Speech	low
14:30	USD	EIA Natural Gas Stocks Change	low	60.0Bcf		15.0Bcf
15:00	EUR	German Bundesbank Mauderer Speech	low
15:30	USD	8-Week Bill Auction	low	0.01%		0.01%
15:30	USD	4-Week Bill Auction	low	0.01%		0.0%
17:00	USD	Fed Bostic Speech	med
17:00	USD	Fed Mester Speech	med
22:05	USD	Fed Kaplan Speech	med
22:30	AUD	Ai Group Services Index	med	61.0	59.0	58.7
23:30	JPY	Average Cash Earnings YoY	low	0.2%	0.1%	-0.4%*

May 7	Friday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Services PMI Final	med	49.5	48.3	48.3
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Composite PMI Final	low	51.0	50.2	49.9
01:30	AUD	RBA Statement on Monetary Policy	med
01:45	CNY	Chinese Caixin Composite PMI	low	54.7	53.3	53.1
01:45	CNY	Chinese Caixin Services PMI	med	56.3	54.5	54.3
02:00	NZD	Business Inflation Expectations	low	2.05%	2.3%	1.9%
03:00	CNY	Chinese Balance of Trade	med	42.85B	14.5B	13.8B
03:00	CNY	Chinese Exports YoY	med	32.3%	35.0%	30.6%
03:00	CNY	Chinese Imports YoY	med	43.1%	37.0%	38.1%
05:45	CHF	Unemployment Rate	med	3.3%	3.4%	3.4%
06:00	EUR	German Industrial Production MoM	med	2.5%	1.7%	-1.9%*
06:00	EUR	German Balance of Trade	high	20.5B	17.6B	18.2B*
06:00	EUR	German Balance of Trade s.a	low	14.3B		18.9B*
06:00	EUR	German Exports MoM s.a	low	1.2%		1.0%*
06:00	EUR	German Imports MoM s.a	low	6.5%		3.6%
06:00	EUR	German Current Account	low	30.2B	25.2B	18.6B*
06:45	EUR	French Current Account	low	-2.9B	-3.2B	-2.2B*
06:45	EUR	French Balance of Trade	med	-6.1B	-4.2B	-5.1B*
06:45	EUR	French Industrial Production MoM	med	0.8%	2.5%	-4.8%*
06:45	EUR	French Private Non Farm Payrolls QoQ Prel	low	0.3%	0.7%	-0.1%
07:00	CHF	Foreign Exchange Reserves	low	914.1B		930.3B*
08:00	CNY	Chinese Foreign Exchange Reserves	low	3.2	3.17	3.17
08:30	GBP	Construction PMI	med	61.6	62.3	61.7
10:00	EUR	ECB President Lagarde Speech	med
12:30	CAD	Full Time Employment Chg	med	-129.4k	-160.0k	175.4k
12:30	CAD	Part Time Employment Chg	med	-77.8k	-50.0k	127.8k
12:30	CAD	Participation Rate	med	64.9%	64.5%	65.2%
12:30	CAD	Employment Change	med	-207.1k	-210.0k	303.1k
12:30	CAD	Unemployment Rate	med	8.1%	7.8%	7.5%
12:30	CAD	Average Hourly Wages YoY	low	-1.6%	1.9%	2.0%
12:30	USD	Average Hourly Earnings MoM	high	0.7%	0.1%	-0.1%
12:30	USD	Nonfarm Payrolls	high	266.0k	950.0k	770.0k*
12:30	USD	Unemployment Rate	high	6.1%	5.8%	6.0%
12:30	USD	Nonfarm Payrolls Private	low	218.0k	850.0k	708.0k*
12:30	USD	Manufacturing Payrolls	low	-18.0k	70.0k	54.0k*
12:30	USD	Average Weekly Hours	low	35.0	34.9	34.9
12:30	USD	Average Hourly Earnings YoY	low	0.3%	-0.2%	4.2%
12:30	USD	Participation Rate	low	61.7%	61.7%	61.5%
12:30	USD	Government Payrolls	low	48.0k	100.0k	62.0k*
14:00	CAD	Ivey PMI s.a	high	60.6	67.0	72.9
14:00	USD	Wholesale Inventories MoM	med	1.3%	1.4%	0.9%
17:00	USD	Baker Hughes Total Rig Count	low	448.0		440.0
17:00	USD	Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count	low	344.0		342.0
19:00	USD	Consumer Credit Change	low	25.84B	18.7B	26.13B*

May 8	Saturday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	EUR	French Victory in Europe Day	low

The Economic Calendar

An economic calendar is a resource that allows traders to learn about upcoming news events.

BabyPips.com's Economic Calendar displays financial market events and announcements from across the world. The events are updated automatically upon the release of new data.

No matter what time frame you trade on, it's important to keep an eye on upcoming calendar events daily since they are likely to impact the financial markets including forex, stocks, bonds and commodities.

Since forex trading is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling another, you can use the Economic Calendar to compare the economies behind each currency.

Events on the calendar are graded low, medium and high, depending on their likely degree of market impact.

Even if you don't trade the news, you should check the Economic Calendar every day in the morning, before you start trading, and once again, at the end of the day, to make sure you’re aware of any high-impact or major events scheduled for the next day.

High-impact events may cause volatile market conditions. Especially in the forex market.

Know ahead of time of upcoming economic data releases or events that may cause sudden volatility and negatively affect your trading, such as any open positions.

Due to the increased market volatility, it is important to remember that trading around news events can result in significant slippage.

Be sure to manage your risk and avoid overleveraging and overexposure! Don’t make the same trading mistakes that failed traders make.

BabyPips.com aims to offer the most accurate content but due to the vast amount of data and the wide range of sources, we can't be held responsible for any inaccuracies that might occur.

The Economic Calendar may also be subject to change without any previous notice.