Econ Calendar

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: Friday’s calendar is uncharacteristically busy for an expiration session — quadruple-witch, no less. And that’s not even considering the overnight Bank of Japan monetary announcement. Any reaction to either pre-open report is likely to be duplicated in reaction to the post-open Consumer Sentiment.

Bank of Japan policy statement
overnight

*Quadruple Witching

Empire State Mfg Survey
8:30 AM ET

Industrial Production
9:15 AM ET

*Consumer Sentiment
10:00 AM ET

Baker-Hughes Rig Count
1:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: FOMC is followed Thursday by the ECB, which is followed by Mario Draghi’s press conference. Although the calendar remains active for the day, none of its reports have a track record for influencing price action. Meanwhile, World Cup Soccer “kicks” off. It lasts a month, but its greatest distraction is early before any countries are eliminated.

*ECB policy statement / Draghi Q&A
7:45 AM / 8:30 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Retail Sales
8:30 AM ET

Import and Export Prices
8:30 AM ET

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
9:45 AM ET

Business Inventories
10:00 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

Fed Balance Sheet
4:30 PM ET

Money Supply
4:30 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: Wednesday’s calendar is busy. It’s also very high-profile and influential, beginning with the pre-open PPI report. Price action might become inhibited ahead of the afternoon’s FOMC policy statement. Its reaction is reliably active, and my favorite trading day. More so during the Fed chair’s quarterly Q&A. My monthly WedEX signal should trigger, too, projecting bias into and out of the weekend.

MBA Mortgage Applications
7:00 AM ET

*PPI-FD
8:30 AM ET

Atlanta Fed Business Inflation Expectations
10:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

*FOMC Meeting Announcement
2:00 PM ET

FOMC Forecasts
2:00 PM ET

*Fed Chair Press Conference
2:30 PM ET

Wednesday Expiration signal
3:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: The Trump-Un summit in Singapore will likely garner most mainstream media coverage. The Brexit bill returning to the House of Commons might generate some headlines, too. The econ calendar isn’t entirely sparse, with the pre-open CPI being both high-profile and reliable for influencing price action.

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
6:00 AM ET

*Consumer Price Index
8:30 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

4-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

*30-Yr Bond Auction
1:00 PM ET

Treasury Budget
2:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: The week starts with a lot of Treasury auctions, and a lot of paper, but no economic report that might otherwise interfere with their sales. The market might breathe a sigh of relief — as in relief rally — after the afternoon results are announced.

3-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

3-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET

10-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET