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.

Aug 2	Sunday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
22:30	AUD	AIG Manufacturing Index	med	53.5	52.0	51.5
23:00	AUD	CommBank Manufacturing PMI Final	med	54.0	53.4	51.2
23:50	JPY	GDP Capital Expenditure QoQ Final	low	1.7%	1.9%	-4.8%
23:50	JPY	GDP External Demand QoQ Final	low	-0.2%	-0.2%	0.5%
23:50	JPY	GDP Growth Annualized Final	med	-2.2%	-2.2%	-7.2%
23:50	JPY	GDP Growth Rate QoQ Final	high	-0.6%	-0.6%	-1.9%
23:50	JPY	GDP Price Index YoY Final	low	0.9%	0.9%	1.2%
23:50	JPY	GDP Private Consumption QoQ Final	low	-0.8%	-0.8%	-2.9%

Aug 3	Monday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CAD	Civic Holiday	low
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Manufacturing PMI Final	med	45.2	42.6	40.1
01:00	AUD	TD-MI Inflation Gauge MoM	low	0.9%		0.6%
01:30	AUD	ANZ Job Advertisements MoM	low	16.7%		42.0%*
01:45	CNY	Chinese Caixin Manufacturing PMI	high	52.8	51.6	51.2
06:30	CHF	Inflation Rate MoM	low	-0.2%	-0.2%	0.0%
06:30	CHF	Inflation Rate YoY	med	-0.9%	-1.0%	-1.3%
07:30	CHF	procure.ch Manufacturing PMI	low	49.2	50.1	41.9
07:50	EUR	French Markit Manufacturing PMI Final	low	52.4	52.0	52.3
07:55	EUR	German Markit Manufacturing PMI Final	med	51.0	50.0	45.2
08:00	EUR	Markit Manufacturing PMI Final	med	51.8	51.1	47.4
08:30	GBP	Markit/CIPS Manufacturing PMI Final	med	53.3	53.6	50.1
09:00	EUR	French New Car Registrations YoY	low	3.9%		1.2%
13:45	USD	Manufacturing PMI	med	50.9	51.3	49.8
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing Prices	med	53.2	51.9	51.3
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing New Orders	med	61.5	55.1	56.4
14:00	USD	Construction Spending MoM	med	-0.7%	1.0%	-1.7%*
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing Employment	med	44.3	45.9	42.1
14:00	USD	ISM Manufacturing PMI	med	54.2	53.6	52.6
16:30	EUR	Fed Bullard Speech	med
16:30	USD	Fed Bullard Speech	med
18:00	EUR	Fed Evans Speech	med
18:00	USD	Fed Evans Speech	med
23:30	JPY	Tokyo CPI YoY	low	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%
23:30	JPY	Core CPI	low	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%

Aug 4	Tuesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
00:00	USD	Total Vehicle Sales	med	14.5M		13.1M
01:30	AUD	Retail Sales MoM	med	2.7%	2.6%	16.9%
01:30	AUD	Imports MoM	low	1.0%	-4.0%	-6.7%*
01:30	AUD	Exports MoM	low	3.0%	-2.0%	-7.0%*
01:30	AUD	Balance of Trade	high	8.2B	8.5B	7.34B*
04:30	AUD	RBA Interest Rate Decision	high	0.25%	0.25%	0.25%
05:45	CHF	Consumer Confidence	high	-12.0	-16.0	-39.3
06:45	EUR	French Budget Balance	low	-124.88B	-105.0B	-117.85B*
09:00	EUR	PPI YoY	low	-3.7%	-4.0%	-5.0%
09:00	EUR	PPI MoM	low	0.7%	0.4%	-0.6%
12:55	USD	Redbook MoM	low	1.1%		1.1%
12:55	USD	Redbook YoY	low	-7.1%		-8.7%
13:30	CAD	Markit Manufacturing PMI	med	52.9	48.6	47.8
13:45	USD	ISM New York Index	low	53.5	45.1	39.5
14:00	USD	Factory Orders ex Transportation	low	4.4%	4.2%	2.6%
14:00	USD	Factory Orders MoM	med	6.2%	6.5%	7.7%*
14:00	USD	IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism	med	46.8	42.0	44.0
14:45	NZD	Global Dairy Trade Price Index	low	-5.1%		-0.7%
20:30	USD	API Crude Oil Stock Change	med	-8.59M		-6.83M*
22:30	AUD	Ai Group Construction Index	low	42.7	36.0	35.5
22:45	NZD	Labour Costs Index YoY	low	2.1%	2.0%	2.5%
22:45	NZD	Labour Costs Index QoQ	low	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
22:45	NZD	Participation Rate	low	69.7%	69.8%	70.5%*
22:45	NZD	Employment Change QoQ	med	-0.4%	-1.8%	1.0%*
22:45	NZD	Unemployment Rate	med	4.0%	5.8%	4.2%
23:00	AUD	CommBank Services PMI Final	med	58.2	58.5	53.1
23:00	AUD	CommBank Composite PMI Final	low	57.8	57.9	52.7

Aug 5	Wednesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Composite PMI Final	low	44.9	43.9	40.8
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Services PMI Final	med	45.4	45.2	45.0
01:30	AUD	RBA Chart Pack	low
01:30	AUD	Investment Lending for Homes	low	8.1%	-10.0%	-15.6%
01:30	AUD	Home Loans MoM	low	5.5%	-6.5%	-10.2%
01:45	CNY	Chinese Caixin Composite PMI	low	54.5	55.0	55.7
01:45	CNY	Chinese Caixin Services PMI	med	54.1	56.0	58.4
07:50	EUR	French Markit Services PMI Final	low	57.3	57.8	50.7
07:50	EUR	French Markit Composite PMI Final	low	57.3	57.6	51.7
07:55	EUR	German Markit Services PMI Final	med	55.6	56.7	47.3
07:55	EUR	German Markit Composite PMI Final	low	55.3	55.5	47.0
08:00	EUR	Markit Composite PMI Final	low	54.9	54.8	48.5
08:00	EUR	Markit Services PMI Final	med	54.7	55.1	48.3
08:00	GBP	New Car Sales YoY	low	11.3%		-34.9%
08:30	GBP	Services PMI	med	56.5	56.6	47.1
08:30	GBP	Markit/CIPS Composite PMI Final	low	57.0	57.1	47.7
09:00	EUR	Retail Sales MoM	low	5.7%	5.9%	20.3%*
09:00	EUR	Retail Sales YoY	med	1.3%	0.2%	-3.1%*
09:00	EUR	French Retail Sales MoM	low	9.4%	6.7%	38.6%*
09:00	EUR	French Retail Sales YoY	low	5.0%	-6.0%	-3.6%*
11:00	USD	MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate	low	3.14%		3.2%
11:00	USD	MBA Mortgage Applications	low	-5.1%		-0.8%
12:12	JPY	BoJ Gov Kuroda Speech	med
12:15	USD	ADP National Employment Report	high	167.0k	1,550.0k	4,314.0k*
12:30	CAD	Exports	low	39.71B	35.0B	33.9B*
12:30	CAD	Imports	low	42.9B	36.0B	35.23B*
12:30	CAD	Balance of Trade	high	-3.19B	-1.0B	-1.33B*
12:30	USD	Exports	low	158.25B	159.6B	144.69B*
12:30	USD	Imports	low	208.95B	210.3B	199.49B*
12:30	USD	Balance of Trade	high	-50.7B	-50.7B	-54.8B*
12:30	USD	Treasury Refunding Announcement	low
13:45	USD	Markit Services PMI Final	med	50.0	49.6	47.9
13:45	USD	Markit Composite PMI Final	med	50.3	50.0	47.9
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing Business Activity	med	67.2	59.1	66.0
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices	med	57.6	57.9	62.4
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing New Orders	med	67.7	57.4	61.6
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing Employment	med	42.1	47.2	43.1
14:00	USD	ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI	med	58.1	54.6	57.1
14:30	USD	EIA Gasoline Stocks Change	med	0.42M		0.65M*
14:30	USD	EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change	med	-7.37M		-10.61M*
14:30	USD	EIA Distillate Stocks Change	med	1.59M		0.5M*
14:30	USD	EIA Distillate Fuel Production Change	low	0.13M		0.02M
14:30	USD	EIA Gasoline Production Change	low	0.14M		0.08M*
14:30	USD	EIA Crude Oil Imports Change	low	1.26M		-1.01M*
14:30	USD	EIA Cushing Crude Oil Stocks Change	med	0.53M		1.31M*
14:30	USD	EIA Refinery Crude Runs Change	low	0.04M		0.39M*
21:00	USD	Fed Mester Speech	med
23:50	JPY	Foreign Bond Investment	low	1,146.4B		-524.3B*
23:50	JPY	Stock Investment by Foreigners	low	-578.6B		109.5B*

Aug 6	Thursday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
03:00	NZD	Business Inflation Expectations	low	1.4%	1.0%	1.2%
06:00	EUR	German Factory Orders MoM	med	27.9%	10.2%	10.4%
06:00	GBP	BoE Inflation Report	med
06:00	GBP	Official Bank Rate	high	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
06:00	GBP	BoE Quantitative Easing	med	745.0B	745.0B	745.0B
06:00	GBP	MPC Meeting Minutes	med
06:00	GBP	BoE MPC Vote Hike	med	0.0	0.0	0.0
06:00	GBP	BoE MPC Vote Unchanged	med	9.0	9.0	9.0
06:00	GBP	BoE MPC Vote Cut	med	0.0	0.0	0.0
07:30	EUR	Construction PMI	low	48.9	52.0	48.3
07:30	EUR	French Construction PMI	low	49.4		53.8
07:30	EUR	German Construction PMI	med	47.1	50.4	41.3
08:30	GBP	Construction PMI	med	58.1	54.2	55.3
11:30	USD	Challenger Job Cuts	low	262.6k	125.0k	170.22k*
12:30	USD	Initial Jobless Claims	med	1,186.0k	1,450.0k	1,435.0k*
12:30	USD	Continuing Jobless Claims	low	16,107.0k	16,900.0k	16,951.0k*
12:30	USD	Jobless Claims 4-Week Average	med	1,337.75k	1,403.0k	1,368.75k*
14:00	USD	Fed Kaplan Speech	med
14:30	USD	EIA Natural Gas Stocks Change	low	33.0Bcf		26.0Bcf
16:00	EUR	German Bundesbank Beermann Speech	med
22:30	AUD	Ai Group Services Index	med	44.0	32.0	31.5
23:30	JPY	Household Spending YoY	low	-1.2%	-8.2%	-16.2%
23:30	JPY	Household Spending MoM	low	13.0%	6.6%	-0.1%
23:30	JPY	Average Cash Earnings YoY	low	-1.7%	-1.0%	-2.3%*
23:50	JPY	Foreign Exchange Reserves	low	1,402.5B		1,383.2B

Aug 7	Friday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
01:30	AUD	RBA Statement on Monetary Policy	med
01:45	AUD	RBA Ellis Speech	med
03:00	CNY	Chinese Balance of Trade	med	62.33B	41.9B	46.42B
03:00	CNY	Chinese Exports YoY	med	7.2%	1.0%	0.5%
03:00	CNY	Chinese Imports YoY	med	-1.4%	1.5%	2.7%
05:00	JPY	Leading Economic Index Prel	low	85.0	81.0	78.4
05:00	JPY	Coincident Index Prel	low	76.4	75.0	72.9*
06:00	EUR	German Industrial Production MoM	med	8.9%	7.5%	7.4%*
06:00	EUR	German Current Account	low	22.4B	14.0B	7.0B*
06:00	EUR	German Balance of Trade s.a	low	14.5B		7.5B*
06:00	EUR	German Exports MoM s.a	low	14.9%		8.9%*
06:00	EUR	German Imports MoM s.a	low	7.0%		3.6%*
06:00	EUR	German Balance of Trade	high	15.6B	1.4B	7.0B*
06:45	EUR	French Current Account	low	-8.4B	-2.4B	-8.2B*
06:45	EUR	French Balance of Trade	med	-8.0B	-2.3B	-7.5B*
06:45	EUR	French Industrial Production MoM	med	12.7%	11.1%	19.9%*
06:45	EUR	French Private Non Farm Payrolls QoQ Prel	low	-0.6%	-7.1%	-2.5%
07:00	CHF	Foreign Exchange Reserves	low	845.8B		850.13B*
07:30	GBP	Halifax House Price Index MoM	med	1.6%	0.3%	-0.1%
07:30	GBP	Halifax House Price Index	med	3.8%	2.3%	2.5%
08:00	CNY	Chinese Foreign Exchange Reserves	low	3.15	3.12	3.11*
12:30	CAD	Participation Rate	med	64.3%	64.2%	63.8%
12:30	CAD	Unemployment Rate	med	10.9%	11.3%	12.3%
12:30	CAD	Employment Change	med	418.5k	500.0k	952.9k
12:30	CAD	Full Time Employment Chg	med	73.2k	290.0k	488.1k
12:30	CAD	Part Time Employment Chg	med	345.3k	210.0k	464.8k
12:30	CAD	Average Hourly Wages YoY	low	5.7%		6.8%
12:30	USD	Average Hourly Earnings MoM	high	0.2%	-1.0%	-1.3%*
12:30	USD	Manufacturing Payrolls	low	26.0k	280.0k	357.0k*
12:30	USD	Participation Rate	low	61.4%	61.5%	61.5%
12:30	USD	Nonfarm Payrolls Private	low	1,462.0k	1,550.0k	4,737.0k*
12:30	USD	Unemployment Rate	high	10.2%	10.5%	11.1%
12:30	USD	Nonfarm Payrolls	high	1,763.0k	1,620.0k	4,800.0k
12:30	USD	Average Weekly Hours	low	34.5	34.4	34.6*
12:30	USD	Average Hourly Earnings YoY	low	4.8%	4.5%	4.9%*
12:30	USD	Government Payrolls	low	301.0k	70.0k	54.0k*
14:00	CAD	Ivey PMI s.a	high	68.5	57.9	58.2
14:00	USD	Wholesale Inventories MoM	med	-1.4%	-2.0%	-1.2%
17:00	USD	Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count	low	176.0		180.0
17:00	USD	Baker Hughes Total Rig Count	low	247.0		251.0
19:00	USD	Consumer Credit Change	low	8.95B	8.6B	-18.28B*

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.