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.

May 26	Thursday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous
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	-0.3%	1.4%	2.3%*
01:30	AUD	Plant Machinery Capital Expenditure QoQ	low	1.2%	0.5%	0.7%*
01:30	AUD	Building Capital Expenditure QoQ	low	-1.7%	0.6%	3.7%*
12:00	CAD	CFIB Business Barometer	low	61.6	64.2	64.9
12:30	CAD	Retail Sales YoY	low	2.7%	5.1%	7.7%*
12:30	CAD	Retail Sales Ex Autos MoM	med	2.4%	2.3%	1.8%*
12:30	CAD	Retail Sales MoM	med	0.0%	1.4%	0.2%*
12:30	USD	GDP Sales QoQ 2nd Est	low	-0.4%	-0.6%	1.5%
12:30	USD	Real Consumer Spending QoQ 2nd Est	low	3.1%	2.7%	2.5%
12:30	USD	Jobless Claims 4-week Average	med	206.75k	209.0k	199.5k
12:30	USD	Continuing Jobless Claims	med	1,346.0k	1,310.0k	1,315.0k*
12:30	USD	Initial Jobless Claims	high	210.0k	221.0k	218.0k
12:30	USD	Core PCE Prices QoQ 2nd Est	low	5.1%	5.2%	5.0%
12:30	USD	PCE Prices QoQ 2nd Est	low	7.0%	7.0%	6.4%
12:30	USD	GDP Price Index QoQ 2nd Est	med	8.1%	8.0%	7.1%
12:30	USD	Corporate Profits QoQ Prel	med	-4.3%	0.5%	0.2%
12:30	USD	GDP Growth Rate QoQ 2nd Est	high	-1.5%	-1.4%	6.9%
12:30	CAD	Average Weekly Earnings YoY	low	4.3%		2.1%*
14:00	USD	Pending Home Sales YoY	med	-9.1%	-10.0%	-8.6%*
14:00	USD	Pending Home Sales MoM	med	-3.9%	-0.8%	-1.6%*
14:30	USD	EIA Natural Gas Stocks Change	low	80.0Bcf		89.0Bcf
15:00	USD	Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index	low	19.0	23.0	28.0
15:00	USD	Kansas Fed Composite Index	low	23.0	21.0	25.0
15:30	USD	8-Week Bill Auction	low	0.92%		0.9%
15:30	USD	4-Week Bill Auction	low	0.74%		0.64%
16:00	CAD	30-Year Bond Auction	low			2.81%*
17:00	USD	7-Year Note Auction	low	2.78%		2.91%*
22:00	NZD	ANZ Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence	low	82.3	83.0	84.4
23:30	JPY	Core CPI	low	1.9%	1.8%	1.9%
23:30	JPY	Tokyo CPI YoY	low	2.4%	2.4%	2.5%
23:30	JPY	Tokyo CPI Ex Food and Energy YoY	low	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%*

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.