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 6	Monday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	GBP	Bank Holiday	med
09:30	AUD	ANZ Job Ads (m/m)	med	-0.1%		-1.7%
10:00	NZD	Treasury Publishes Monthly Economic Indicators	med
15:50	EUR	French Composite PMI	low	50.1	50.0	50.0
15:50	EUR	French Services PMI	low	50.5	50.5	50.5
15:55	EUR	German Composite PMI	low	52.2	52.1	52.1
15:55	EUR	German Services PMI	med	55.7	55.6	55.6
16:00	EUR	Composite PMI	low	51.5	51.3	51.3
16:00	EUR	Services PMI	med	52.8	52.5	52.5
16:30	EUR	Sentix Investor Confidence	med	5.3	1.2	-0.3
17:00	EUR	Retail Sales (m/m)	low	0.0%	-0.1%	0.5%*
17:00	EUR	Retail Sales (y/y)	med	1.9%	1.8%	3.0%*
21:30	USD	Fed's Harker speaks in Philadelphia	med

May 7	Tuesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
All Day	CNY	Chinese Foreign Reserves	low	3.0B	3,100.0B	3.0B
01:45	CAD	Bank of Canada's Poloz speaks in Winnipeg	med
06:30	AUD	AIG Construction PMI	med	42.6		45.6
08:30	JPY	Nikkei PMI Mfg	med	50.2		49.5
09:30	AUD	Retail Sales Ex Inflation (q/q)	med	-0.1%	0.3%	0.0%*
09:30	AUD	Trade Balance	med	4,949.0M	4,480.0M	5,140.0M*
09:30	AUD	Retail Trade (m/m)	med	0.3%	0.2%	0.9%*
12:30	AUD	RBA - Overnight Rate	high	1.5%	1.25%	1.5%
14:00	EUR	German Factory orders (sa) (m/m)	med	0.6%	1.4%	-4.0%*
14:45	EUR	French Current Account	low	-1.3B		-0.8B
14:45	EUR	French Trade Balance	low	-5,324.0B	-4.5B	-4.0B*
15:00	CHF	Foreign Currency Reserves	med	771.6B		756.3B*
16:00	GBP	BoE's Cunliffe Speaks in London	med
19:00	USD	Fed's Kaplan speaks	med
22:00	CAD	Ivey PMI	med	55.9		54.3

May 8	Wednesday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
00:30	GBP	BoE's Haldane speaks in Sheffield	med
03:00	USD	Consumer Credit	low	10.28B	16.5B	15.45B*
07:00	CNY	Chinese Exports (y/y)	high	-2.7%	3.0%	14.2%
07:00	CNY	Chinese Imports (y/y)	high	4.0%	-2.1%	-4.8%*
07:00	CNY	Chinese Trade Balance	med	13.84B	34.8B	32.67B*
07:50	JPY	BoJ march policy meeting minutes	med
08:30	JPY	Composite PMI	med	50.8		50.4
08:30	JPY	Services PMI	med	51.8		52.0
10:00	NZD	RBNZ Cash Rate Target	high	1.5%	1.5%	1.75%
10:00	NZD	RBNZ OCR decision	med
13:45	CHF	Unemployment (sa)	low	2.4%	2.4%	2.4%
14:00	EUR	German Industrial Production (m/m)	med	0.5%	-0.5%	0.4%*
14:00	EUR	German Industrial Production (y/y)	med	-0.9%	-2.6%	0.2%*
15:30	GBP	Halifax House Price Index (3m y/y)	low	5.0%	4.5%	2.6%*
15:30	GBP	Halifax House Price Index (m/m)	low	1.1%	0.1%	-1.6%*
16:15	GBP	BoE's Ramsden speaks in London	med
19:30	EUR	ECB's Draghi speaks in Frankfurt	med
20:15	CAD	Housing Starts	low	235.5k	195.5k	192.5k

May 9	Thursday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
07:01	GBP	RICS Housing Survey	med	-23.0%	-22.0%	-24.0%
09:30	CNY	Chinese CPI (y/y)	med	2.5%	2.5%	2.3%
09:30	CNY	Chinese PPI (y/y)	med	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%
13:00	JPY	Consumer Confidence	low	40.4	40.3	40.5
15:00	EUR	ECB's Hakkarainen speaks in Basel	med
20:30	USD	Unemployment Claims	med	228.0k	220.0k	230.0k
20:30	CAD	House Price Index (m/m)	low	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
20:30	USD	PPI (m/m)	high	0.2%	0.3%	0.6%
20:30	USD	Core PPI (m/m)	med	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
20:30	USD	Trade Balance	med	-50.0B	-50.1B	-49.3B*
20:30	USD	Fed's Powell speaks in Washington	med
21:45	USD	Fed's Bostic speaks	med
22:00	USD	Wholesale Inventories (m/m)	low	-0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

May 10	Friday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
01:15	USD	Fed's Evans speaks in Washington	med
07:50	JPY	BoJ Summary of Opinions	med
14:00	EUR	German Current Account (nsa)	low	30.2B	26.0B	16.3B
14:00	EUR	German Trade Balance	low	22.7B	20.0B	18.0B*
14:45	EUR	French Industrial Production (m/m)	med	-0.9%	-0.5%	0.4%
14:45	EUR	French Industrial Production (y/y)	med	-0.9%	-0.1%	0.6%
14:45	EUR	French Manufacturing Production (m/m)	med	-1.0%		1.1%
14:45	EUR	French Manufacturing Production (y/y)	med	0.5%		2.8%
15:30	EUR	ECB's Villeroy speaks in Paris	med
15:30	EUR	ECB's Lautenschlaeger speaks in Paris	med
16:30	GBP	Construction Output (m/m)	med	-1.9%	-0.9%	0.4%
16:30	GBP	Construction Output (y/y)	med	3.2%	4.5%	3.2%*
16:30	GBP	GDP (m/m)	high	-0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
16:30	GBP	GDP (q/q)	high	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%
16:30	GBP	Index of Services (q/q)	med	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%
16:30	GBP	Index of Services (m/m)	med	-0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
16:30	GBP	Industrial Production (m/m)	med	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%
16:30	GBP	Industrial Production (y/y)	med	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%
16:30	GBP	Manufacturing Production (m/m)	high	0.9%	0.0%	0.9%
16:30	GBP	Manufacturing Production (y/y)	high	2.6%	1.1%	0.6%
16:30	GBP	Trade Balance (Non-EU)	med	-4.36B	-5.4B	-6.22B*
16:30	GBP	Visible Trade Balance	med	-13.65B	-13.7B	-14.11B*
17:30	EUR	ECB's Visco speaks in Paris	med
20:30	CAD	Building Permits (m/m)	med	2.1%	2.4%	-5.1%*
20:30	CAD	Net Change in Employment	high	106.5k	11.6k	-7.2k
20:30	CAD	Unemployment Rate	high	5.7%	5.8%	5.8%
20:30	USD	CPI (m/m)	high	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%
20:30	USD	Core CPI (m/m)	high	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
20:30	USD	Fed's Brainard speaks in Washington	med
21:08	USD	Fed's Bostic speaks	med
22:00	USD	Fed's Williams speaks in Bronx, N.Y.	med
22:30	EUR	ECB's Coeure speaks in Paris	med

May 11	Saturday		Impact	Actual	Forecast	Previous	Details
02:00	USD	Federal Budget Balance	low	160.3B	160.5B	-146.9B

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.