Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: Friday’s expiration includes index futures, and is referred to as Quadruple Witching. But the volatility that used to be associated with it usually doesn’t appear any longer. That said, moves can be abbreviated, as trending is more difficult to start.

Empire State Mfg Survey
8:30 AM ET

Industrial Production
9:15 AM ET

Atlanta Fed Business Inflation Expectations
10:00 AM ET

Baker-Hughes Rig Count
1:00 PM ET

Treasury International Capital
4:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: Thursday’s calendar is busy, and its reports are staggered. The pre-open reports are high-profile, but not reliably influential to price action. Meanwhile, BOE and ECB don’t often convene monetary policy meetings on the same day. And each is likely to be influential to price action, with Brexit and QE over-exposure concerns in the background, respectively.

Swiss monetary policy statement
3:30 AM ET

Bank of England policy statement
7:00 AM ET

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 CPI is the morning’s only high-profile report, but it is also reliable for influencing price action. Price action often becomes muted ahead of the afternoon’s FOMC policy statement. Its reaction is very reliable for offering multiple trading opportunities. All the more so during quarterly Q&A sessions with the Fed chair. That tends to ensure a WedEX signal forms.

MBA Mortgage Applications
7:00 AM ET

*Consumer Price Index
8:30 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

*FOMC Policy Statement
2:00 PM ET

FOMC Forecasts
2:00 PM ET

*Fed Chair Press Conference
2:30 PM ET

WedEX
4:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: Tuesday’s PPI is the day’s only high-profile report, but it is also reliable for influencing price action.

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
6:00 AM ET

*PPI-FD
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: Monthly payrolls is followed by the Jobs Openings data. And it can influence price action when it diverges from Friday’s numbers, or if it confirms a payrolls surprise. Its influence is helped by being Monday’s only report.

*JOLTS
10:00 AM ET

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