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Economic calendar
Release dates for the six events that move currencies, gold and crypto the most: Fed and ECB rate decisions, US inflation, payrolls and GDP, and the Bank of Japan. Dates come from the publishers' own calendars, the actual figure from their data, and every past release shows how bitcoin, EUR/USD and gold moved in the hour after it.
Next releases
| Event | Date | Time | Previous |
|---|---|---|---|
| US nonfarm payrolls | 8:30 AM New York · 12:30 PM UTC | +162K | |
| US CPI | 8:30 AM New York · 12:30 PM UTC | 3.4% | |
| Fed rate decision (FOMC) | 2:00 PM New York · 6:00 PM UTC | 3.75–4.00% | |
| US GDP, advance estimate | 8:30 AM New York · 12:30 PM UTC | — | |
| ECB rate decision | 2:15 PM Frankfurt · 1:15 PM UTC | 2.50% | |
| Bank of Japan rate decision | Around midday Tokyo, no set time | — | |
| US nonfarm payrolls | 8:30 AM New York · 1:30 PM UTC | +162K | |
| US CPI | 8:30 AM New York · 1:30 PM UTC | 3.4% | |
| US nonfarm payrolls | 8:30 AM New York · 1:30 PM UTC | +162K | |
| Fed rate decision (FOMC) | 2:00 PM New York · 7:00 PM UTC | 3.75–4.00% | |
| US CPI | 8:30 AM New York · 1:30 PM UTC | 3.4% | |
| ECB rate decision | 2:15 PM Frankfurt · 1:15 PM UTC | 2.50% |
Recent releases
| Event | Date | Actual | Previous | Bitcoin, 1h | EUR/USD, 1h | Gold, 1h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of Japan rate decision | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Fed rate decision (FOMC) | 3.75–4.00% | 3.50–3.75% | -0.18% | -0.61% | -2.25% | |
| US CPI | 3.4% | 3.4% | +0.56% | +0.06% | +1.14% | |
| ECB rate decision | 2.50% | 2.25% | -1.27% | -0.13% | -0.73% | |
| US nonfarm payrolls | +162K | +21K | -2.49% | -0.10% | -1.35% | |
| US CPI | 3.4% | 3.5% | -0.70% | +0.07% | -0.20% | |
| US nonfarm payrolls | +21K | +31K | +0.05% | +0.06% | +0.09% | |
| Bank of Japan rate decision | — | — | — | — | — | |
| US GDP, advance estimate | — | — | -0.09% | -0.02% | -0.16% | |
| Fed rate decision (FOMC) | 3.50–3.75% | 3.50–3.75% | +0.36% | +0.49% | +1.55% |
Market move: the change from the price at the release to the close an hour later, on our own 5-minute history. An empty cell means that history has no bars for that hour; for EUR/USD and gold it is much shorter than for bitcoin.
Events
How to read this calendar
Six events, not sixty. Each one regularly moves the dollar, the euro, the yen, gold and bitcoin at the same time, and together they account for most of the sharp hours in these markets. Every date comes from the calendar of the agency or central bank that publishes the release and is rechecked several times a day, so a rescheduled release moves here too.
There is no forecast column. Consensus forecasts are sold by data vendors under licences that do not allow republishing them on a free public page, so we show what the publisher itself released: the actual figure and the one before it.
What we add instead is the reaction. For every past release the table shows how far bitcoin, EUR/USD and gold moved in the hour after it, measured on our own price history. It shows which releases actually move the market you trade, and by how much.
Which time zone are the times in
Each release is shown in the publisher's own time, New York for the Fed and US data, Frankfurt for the ECB and Tokyo for the Bank of Japan, followed by the same moment in UTC. US and European clocks change on different dates, so in March and in late October the gap between New York and Frankfurt is an hour shorter for a week or two.
Why is there no forecast
The consensus forecast is compiled by data vendors and licensed for their own products. None of them offers a licence to republish it on a free public page at a reasonable price, so rather than copy it we leave it out.
Why do the figures differ from other calendars
We show the publisher's current data. The BLS revises payrolls in the two following reports and once a year in a benchmark revision, so an older payrolls figure here is the revised one, while most calendars keep the number printed on the day.
Is this trading advice
No. The calendar shows when data comes out, what it was and how prices moved afterwards. A past reaction does not predict the next one, and none of this is a recommendation to buy or sell.