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 17	Tuesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous
01:30	AUD	RBA Meeting Minutes	med
04:30	JPY	Tertiary Industry Activity Index	low	2.3%	0.1%	-2.7%
06:00	GBP	Labour Productivity QoQ Prel	low	-0.5%	0.3%	0.4%*
06:00	GBP	Employment Change	med	95.0k	75.0k	25.0k
06:00	GBP	Average Earnings excl. Bonus	low	7.4%	7.6%	6.6%
06:00	GBP	Average Earnings Index	med	8.8%	8.5%	7.4%*
06:00	GBP	Unemployment Rate	med	4.7%	4.7%	4.8%
06:00	GBP	Claimant Count Change	high	-7.8k	-180.0k	-114.8k
09:00	EUR	GDP Growth Rate YoY 2nd Est	med	13.6%	13.7%	-1.3%
09:00	EUR	GDP Growth Rate QoQ 2nd Est	med	2.0%	2.0%	-0.3%
09:00	EUR	Employment Change YoY Prel	med	1.8%		-1.8%
09:00	EUR	Employment Change QoQ Prel	med	0.5%		-0.2%*
09:40	EUR	German 2-Year Schatz Auction	low	-0.75%		-0.67%
12:15	CAD	Housing Starts	med	272.2k	270.0k	281.2k*
12:30	CAD	Foreign Securities Purchases by Canadians	low	28.1B		10.53B*
12:30	CAD	Foreign Securities Purchases	low	19.63B		20.81B*
12:30	USD	Retail Sales MoM	high	-1.1%	-0.3%	0.7%*
12:30	USD	Retail Sales YoY	low	15.8%	11.5%	18.7%*
12:30	USD	Retail Sales Ex Autos MoM	high	-0.4%	0.1%	1.6%*
12:55	USD	Redbook YoY	low	15.0%		16.2%
13:15	USD	Capacity Utilization Rate	low	76.1%	75.6%	75.4%
13:15	USD	Manufacturing Production YoY	low	7.4%	7.5%	10.2%*
13:15	USD	Industrial Production YoY	med	6.6%	7.2%	9.9%*
13:15	USD	Industrial Production	med	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%*
13:15	USD	Manufacturing Production MoM	low	1.4%	0.4%	-0.3%*
14:00	USD	NAHB Housing Market Index	med	75.0	79.0	80.0
14:00	USD	Business Inventories MoM	med	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%*
14:30	NZD	Global Dairy Trade Price Index	low	0.3%		-1.0%
14:30	USD	NY Fed Treasury Purchases TIPS 7.5 to 30 yrs	low
15:30	USD	42-Day Bill Auction	low	0.04%		0.04%
15:30	USD	57-Day Bill Auction	low	0.07%
17:30	USD	Fed Chair Powell Speech	med
19:45	USD	Fed Kashkari Speech	med
20:30	USD	API Crude Oil Stock Change	med	-1.16M		-0.82M*
22:45	NZD	PPI Output QoQ	low	2.6%		1.2%
22:45	NZD	PPI Input QoQ	low	3.0%		2.1%
23:50	JPY	Machinery Orders YoY	med	18.6%	15.5%	12.2%
23:50	JPY	Machinery Orders MoM	med	-1.5%	-3.0%	7.8%
23:50	JPY	Imports YoY	low	28.5%	32.0%	32.7%
23:50	JPY	Exports YoY	med	37.0%	45.0%	48.6%
23:50	JPY	Balance of Trade	high	441.0B	300.0B	384.0B*

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.