Economic Calendar

How to use the economic calendar

The calendar lists the scheduled events that move the forex market most: central bank interest rate decisions for all eight major currencies, the key US data releases (inflation, jobs, GDP, PCE, retail sales and producer prices) and inflation and jobs figures for the UK, Canada, the eurozone, Australia and New Zealand, plus Japan’s CPI, Tokyo CPI and jobs figures. New Zealand and Japanese dates are read from the official statistics offices every day, so they stay up to date automatically. Every time is converted to your time zone, including daylight-saving changes, and the countdown always shows the next high-impact event.

• Filter by period, by impact and by currency. Your choices are remembered on this device.
• Add to your calendar with the 📅 button on any event, or download everything currently shown in one file. It works with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook.
• Subscribe to keep every event in your own calendar app. It updates automatically, so you never have to download it again.
• Live figures: the TradingView calendar below shows forecasts, previous values and the actual numbers as each release comes out.

Impact ratings are ChartWatch’s own guide to how much an event usually moves its currency. High-impact releases often widen spreads and cause fast moves in the minutes around the release time.

The events that move markets

• Interest rate decisions. The single biggest scheduled driver of a currency. The statement and the press conference afterwards often matter as much as the rate itself.
• US CPI. The main US inflation measure, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at 8:30 am ET, usually in the second week of the month.
• US jobs report (non-farm payrolls). Usually the first Friday of the month at 8:30 am ET, with the unemployment rate and wage growth.
• PCE inflation. The price index the Federal Reserve targets, released with personal income and spending at 8:30 am ET.
• GDP. The advance estimate, about a month after each quarter ends, usually moves markets most; the second and third estimates revise it.
• Retail sales and PPI. Monthly reads on consumer spending and on prices paid by producers.

Release dates for CPI and the jobs report are also on our CPI & NFP release dates page, and the full FOMC schedule with dot-plot meetings is on Fed meeting dates.

Central bank meeting dates 2026–2027

Remaining 2026 and published 2027 decision dates for the eight major central banks, in each bank’s local time. The calendar above converts them to yours. The RBNZ has published dates only to February 2027 so far.

Federal Reserve (USD)

European Central Bank (EUR)

Bank of England (GBP)

Bank of Japan (JPY)

Bank of Canada (CAD)

Reserve Bank of Australia (AUD)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand (NZD)

Swiss National Bank (CHF)

Seeing events on TradingView

TradingView can show upcoming economic events right on your chart: open the chart settings, go to Events and switch on Economic events, then choose which impact levels to show. Our guide to the TradingView economic calendar walks through it. To see what’s open around a release, use the forex time zone converter; to see which currency is moving, check the currency strength meter.

Sources

Dates and times come from each organisation’s own published schedule: the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Swiss National Bank; the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI, jobs report, PPI), Bureau of Economic Analysis (GDP, PCE) and Census Bureau (retail sales); the UK Office for National Statistics; Statistics Canada; Eurostat (dates from the ECB statistical calendar); the Australian Bureau of Statistics; Stats NZ (read daily from its official calendar feed); and the Statistics Bureau of Japan (read daily from its release schedules; Japanese releases are usually at 8:30 am Tokyo time, marked ~). Swiss data releases are not included yet. Website owners can add this calendar to their own site with our free economic calendar widget, and developers can use the same data as a free JSON feed (times in UTC, please link back to this page). Schedules were last checked on 19 October 2026 and run to December 2027. Organisations occasionally move a release; the official schedule always wins.

The live figures widget is provided by TradingView. ChartWatch is independent and not affiliated with TradingView or any central bank or agency, and doesn’t give trading advice.

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