Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: Friday’s calendar is unusually sparse. The pre-open report is neither high-profile nor influential to price action, unlike the only post-open report. But no afternoon reports or speakers are scheduled that would help to keep alive volatility into the weekend.

Import and Export Prices
8:30 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: Both of Thursday’s pre-open reports are high-profile, but only one is reliably influential to price action anymore. That could set the tone for reacting to the two post-open Fed speakers, or a pre-open report’s reaction could be inhibited until the two post-open Fed speakers’ remarks are disseminated.

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

*PPI-FD
8:30 AM ET

*Richard Clarida Speaks
9:30 AM ET

*John Williams Speaks
9:35 AM ET

*James Bullard Speaks
9:40 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

*30-Yr Bond Auction
1:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: Is Wednesday an unofficial Central Banks day? The ECB policy statement and ECB Chair Draghi’s press conference are reliable for influencing pre-open price action. The high-profile and influential CPI is released when Draghi first speaks. The afternoon’s FOMC Minutes should continue their recent new high-impact for being full of it, “it” being the rhetoric the committee hopes will accomplish what their inaction will not. Meanwhile, Fed Chair Powell is on the calendar through Friday for meeting with Democrats, which is probably irrelevant.

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

MBA Mortgage Applications
7:00 AM ET

*CPI
8:30 AM ET

Atlanta Fed Business Inflation Expectations
10:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

10-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET

*FOMC Minutes
2:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: Tuesday’s Jobs openings report can contradict an influential Employment report — which Friday’s payrolls was not — or contradict its data, which is a possibility.

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
6:00 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

*JOLTS
10:00 AM ET

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

Highlights: The new week’s calendar is significantly busier than may be suggested by Monday’s single post-open item — which is much more high-profile than it is reliably influential to price action.

Factory Orders
10:00 AM ET