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 22	Sunday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CHF	World Economic Forum Annual Meeting	med
23:05	AUD	RBA Kent Speech	med

May 23	Monday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CAD	Victoria Day	low
All Day	EUR	Eurogroup Meeting	med
All Day	CHF	World Economic Forum Annual Meeting	med
08:00	EUR	German Ifo Expectations	low	86.9	87.3	86.8*
08:00	EUR	German Ifo Current Conditions	low	99.5	97.5	97.3*
08:00	EUR	German Ifo Business Climate	high	93.0	92.1	91.9*
10:00	EUR	German Bundesbank Monthly Report	low
12:30	USD	Chicago Fed National Activity Index	med	0.47	0.35	0.36*
13:00	EUR	French 12-Month BTF Auction	low	0.05%		-0.15%*
13:00	EUR	French 3-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.6%		-0.63%*
13:00	EUR	French 6-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.4%		-0.47%*
14:00	EUR	French 12-Month BTF Auction	low	0.05%		-0.15%*
14:00	EUR	French 3-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.6%		-0.63%*
14:00	EUR	French 6-Month BTF Auction	low	-0.4%		-0.47%*
14:15	EUR	German Bundesbank Nagel Speech	low
15:30	USD	3-Month Bill Auction	low	1.06%		1.05%
15:30	USD	6-Month Bill Auction	low	1.53%		1.49%
16:00	USD	Fed Bostic Speech	med
22:45	NZD	Retail Sales YoY	low	2.3%	2.0%	4.4%
22:45	NZD	Retail Sales QoQ	low	-0.5%	-1.0%	8.3%*
23:00	AUD	S&P Global Composite PMI Flash	low	52.5	55.0	55.9
23:00	AUD	S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Flash	med	55.3	58.0	58.8
23:00	AUD	S&P Global Services PMI Flash	med	53.0	55.3	56.6*

May 24	Tuesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CHF	World Economic Forum Annual Meeting	med
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Manufacturing PMI Flash	med	53.2	53.0	53.5
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Services PMI Flash	med	51.7	50.2	50.7
00:30	JPY	Jibun Bank Composite PMI Flash	low	51.4	50.5	51.1
06:00	GBP	Public Sector Net Borrowing Ex Banks	low	-18.6B	-19.5B	-14.7B*
06:00	GBP	GBP Public Sector Net Borrowing	low	-17.8B	-18.8B	-13.9B*
06:45	EUR	French Business Confidence	med	106.0	107.0	108.0
06:45	EUR	French Business Climate Indicator	low	106.0	104.0	106.0
07:15	EUR	French S&P Global Composite PMI Flash	low	57.1	57.2	57.6
07:15	EUR	French S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Flash	med	54.5	55.1	55.7
07:15	EUR	French S&P Global Services PMI Flash	med	58.4	59.0	58.9
07:30	EUR	German S&P Global Composite PMI Flash	low	54.6	54.0	54.3
07:30	EUR	German S&P Global Services PMI Flash	med	56.3	56.5	57.6
07:30	EUR	German S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Flash	high	54.7	54.1	54.6
08:00	EUR	S&P Global Composite PMI Flash	low	54.9	55.0	55.8
08:00	EUR	S&P Global Services PMI Flash	med	56.3	57.3	57.7
08:00	EUR	S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Flash	med	54.4	55.0	55.5
08:30	GBP	S&P Global/CIPS Manufacturing PMI Flash	high	54.6	55.2	55.8
08:30	GBP	S&P Global/CIPS UK Services PMI Flash	high	51.8	58.5	58.9
08:30	GBP	S&P Global/CIPS Composite PMI Flash	low	51.8	58.0	58.2
10:00	GBP	CBI Distributive Trades	med	-1.0	-20.0	-35.0
10:00	GBP	BoE Woods Speech	low
12:30	CAD	Manufacturing Sales MoM Prel	low	1.6%	1.1%	2.5%
12:30	CAD	Wholesale Sales MoM Prel	low	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
12:55	USD	Redbook YoY	low	11.4%		12.7%
13:45	USD	S&P Global Services PMI Flash	med	53.5	55.0	55.6
13:45	USD	S&P Global Composite PMI Flash	med	53.8	55.5	56.0
13:45	USD	S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Flash	med	57.5	58.8	59.2
14:00	USD	New Home Sales MoM	low	-16.6%	-1.0%	-10.5%*
14:00	USD	New Home Sales	high	0.59M	0.76M	0.71M*
14:00	USD	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	low	-9.0	12.0	14.0
14:00	USD	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Shipments Index	low	-14.0	15.0	17.0
14:00	USD	Richmond Fed Services Index	low	8.0	11.0	13.0
16:20	USD	Fed Chair Powell Speech	med
17:00	USD	2-Year Note Auction	low	2.52%		2.59%*
18:00	EUR	ECB President Lagarde Speech	med
20:30	USD	API Crude Oil Stock Change	med	0.57M		-2.45M*
23:45	AUD	RBA Ellis Speech	med

May 25	Wednesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CHF	World Economic Forum Annual Meeting	med
01:30	AUD	Construction Work Done QoQ	med	-0.9%	-1.0%	0.6%*
02:00	NZD	RBNZ Interest Rate Decision	med	2.0%	2.0%	1.5%*
03:00	NZD	RBNZ Press Conference	med
05:00	JPY	Leading Indicators Index	low	100.8	101.0	100.1*
05:00	JPY	Coincident Index Final	low	97.5	97.0	96.8
06:00	EUR	German GDP Growth Rate QoQ Final	med	0.2%	0.2%	-0.3%
06:00	EUR	German GDP w.d.a.	med	3.8%	3.7%	1.8%
06:00	EUR	German GfK Consumer Confidence	high	-26.0	-25.2	-26.6*
06:45	EUR	French Consumer Confidence	low	86.0	86.0	87.0*
07:00	EUR	ECB Panetta Speech	low
08:00	CHF	Economic Sentiment Index	low	-52.6	-45.3	-51.6
08:00	EUR	ECB President Lagarde Speech	med
09:30	EUR	German 15-Year Bund Auction	low	1.15%		0.99%
09:45	EUR	ECB Lane Speech	low
10:00	EUR	French Jobseekers Total	low	2,955.0k	2,925.0k	2,940.0k
10:00	EUR	French Unemployment Benefit Claims	med	14.6k	-3.5k	-11.0k
11:00	USD	MBA Mortgage Applications	low	-1.2%		-11.0%
11:00	USD	MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate	low	5.46%		5.49%
11:00	USD	MBA Mortgage Refinance Index	low	794.9		826.9
11:00	USD	MBA Mortgage Market Index	low	315.5		319.4
11:00	USD	MBA Purchase Index	low	225.5		225.0
11:05	JPY	BoJ Gov Kuroda Speech	med
12:30	CAD	Wholesale Sales MoM Prel	low
12:30	USD	Core Durable Goods Orders	med	0.3%	0.7%	1.2%*
12:30	USD	Durable Goods Orders	high	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%*
12:30	USD	Durable Goods Orders ex Defense MoM	low	0.3%	0.8%	1.2%
12:30	USD	Non Defense Goods Orders Ex Air	low	0.3%		1.1%*
14:30	USD	EIA Refinery Crude Runs Change	low			0.24M*
14:30	USD	EIA Heating Oil Stocks Change	low			0.57M*
14:30	USD	EIA Gasoline Production Change	low			-0.14M*
14:30	USD	EIA Distillate Stocks Change	low			1.24M*
14:30	USD	EIA Distillate Fuel Production Change	low			0.0M*
14:30	USD	EIA Cushing Crude Oil Stocks Change	low			-2.4M*
14:30	USD	EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change	med			-3.39M*
14:30	USD	EIA Crude Oil Imports Change	low			-0.34M*
14:30	USD	EIA Gasoline Stocks Change	med			-4.78M*
15:30	USD	2-Year FRN Auction	low			-0.08%*
16:00	CAD	10-Year Bond Auction	low			2.98%
16:00	EUR	German Bundesbank Beermann Speech	low
16:15	USD	Fed Brainard Speech	med
17:00	USD	5-Year Note Auction	low			2.79%*
18:00	USD	FOMC Minutes	high
23:01	GBP	Car Production YoY	low			-33.4%
23:50	JPY	Stock Investment by Foreigners	low			-342.9B
23:50	JPY	Foreign Bond Investment	low			370.8B

May 26	Thursday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	EUR	Ascension Day	low
All Day	EUR	French Ascension Day	low
All Day	EUR	German Ascension Day	low
All Day	CHF	Ascension Day	low
All Day	AUD	RBA Payments System Board Meeting	med
All Day	CHF	World Economic Forum Annual Meeting	med
01:30	AUD	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ	low		1.4%	1.1%
01:30	AUD	Plant Machinery Capital Expenditure QoQ	low		0.5%	-0.1%
01:30	AUD	Building Capital Expenditure QoQ	low		0.6%	2.2%
12:30	CAD	Retail Sales YoY	low		5.1%	7.4%
12:30	CAD	Retail Sales Ex Autos MoM	med		2.3%	2.1%
12:30	CAD	Retail Sales MoM	med		1.4%	0.1%
12:30	USD	GDP Sales QoQ 2nd Est	low		-0.6%	1.5%
12:30	USD	Real Consumer Spending QoQ 2nd Est	low		2.7%	2.5%
12:30	USD	Jobless Claims 4-week Average	low		209.0k	199.5k
12:30	USD	Continuing Jobless Claims	low		1,310.0k	1,317.0k
12:30	USD	Initial Jobless Claims	med		221.0k	218.0k
12:30	USD	Core PCE Prices QoQ 2nd Est	low		5.2%	5.0%
12:30	USD	PCE Prices QoQ 2nd Est	low		7.0%	6.4%
12:30	USD	GDP Price Index QoQ 2nd Est	med		8.0%	7.1%
12:30	USD	Corporate Profits QoQ Prel	med		0.5%	0.2%
12:30	USD	GDP Growth Rate QoQ 2nd Est	high		-1.4%	6.9%
12:30	CAD	Average Weekly Earnings YoY	low			2.4%
14:00	USD	Pending Home Sales YoY	med		-10.0%	-8.2%
14:00	USD	Pending Home Sales MoM	med		-0.8%	-1.2%
14:30	USD	EIA Natural Gas Stocks Change	low			89.0Bcf
15:00	USD	Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index	low		23.0	28.0
15:00	USD	Kansas Fed Composite Index	low		21.0	25.0
15:30	USD	8-Week Bill Auction	low			0.9%
15:30	USD	4-Week Bill Auction	low			0.64%
16:00	CAD	30-Year Bond Auction	low			2.81%*
17:00	USD	7-Year Note Auction	low			2.91%*
22:00	NZD	ANZ Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence	low		83.0	84.4
23:30	JPY	Core CPI	low		1.8%	1.9%
23:30	JPY	Tokyo CPI YoY	low		2.4%	2.5%
23:30	JPY	Tokyo CPI Ex Food and Energy YoY	low		0.7%	0.8%

May 27	Friday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
01:30	AUD	Retail Sales MoM Prel	med		1.0%	1.6%
01:30	CNY	Chinese Industrial Profits (YTD) YoY	low		2.0%	8.5%
08:00	EUR	Loans to Companies YoY	low		4.2%	4.2%
08:00	EUR	M3 Money Supply	low		6.2%	6.3%
08:00	EUR	Loans to Households YoY	low		4.4%	4.5%
11:00	CAD	CFIB Business Barometer	low		64.2	64.9
11:35	EUR	ECB Lane Speech	low
12:30	USD	Goods Trade Balance Adv	med		-119.0B	-125.32B
12:30	USD	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv	med		1.1%	2.3%
12:30	USD	Core PCE Price Index MoM	low		0.5%	0.3%
12:30	USD	Core PCE Price Index YoY	low		5.0%	5.2%
12:30	USD	PCE Price Index MoM	med		0.3%	0.9%
12:30	USD	Core Personal Consumption Expenditure	med		6.4%	6.6%
12:30	USD	Personal Spending MoM	high		0.8%	1.1%
12:30	USD	Personal Income	high		0.6%	0.5%
12:30	USD	Retail Inventories Ex Autos MoM Adv	med		1.5%	2.5%
14:00	USD	UoM Consumer Sentiment Index	high		59.1	65.2
14:00	USD	Michigan Consumer Expectations Final	low		56.3	62.5
14:00	USD	Michigan Inflation Expectations Final	low		5.4%	5.4%
14:00	USD	Michigan 5 Year Inflation Expectations Final	low		3.0%	3.0%
14:00	USD	Michigan Current Conditions Final	low		63.6	69.4
15:00	CAD	Budget Balance	low		-18.0B	5.47B
17:00	USD	Baker Hughes Total Rig Count	low			728.0
17:00	USD	Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count	low			576.0

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.