Forex economic calendar
Find scheduled macroeconomic events without jumping across multiple sites. The high-impact list uses your device time, while the global calendar covers multiple countries and importance levels.
Upcoming high-impact releases
Global economic calendar
Events that commonly matter to FX
- Central-bank decisions and guidance: policy rates, balance-sheet guidance and press conferences.
- Inflation: CPI/PCE and other price measures that can alter rate expectations.
- Employment: payrolls, unemployment, wages and labor-demand indicators.
- Growth and activity: GDP, retail sales, PMIs and industrial data.
- Government and political events: budgets, elections, emergency announcements and trade policy can also move currencies but are not always scheduled like economic data.
Three numbers to understand on a release
Previous is the prior reported value, which may later be revised. Forecast/consensus is an estimate, not a promise. Actual is the new release. Markets often react to the difference between expectations and the actual number, but positioning, revisions and guidance can dominate the headline surprise.
Primary-source check for critical events
For a trade-sensitive event, verify the release with the issuing authority—such as a central bank, statistics agency or government department—especially if a third-party calendar time or figure appears unusual.
How traders use an economic calendar
Scheduled inflation, employment, central-bank and growth releases can change liquidity and volatility. A calendar tells you when data is scheduled; it does not tell you the direction or size of the next market move.
Related tools
High-impact events can produce rapid price changes, slippage and wider spreads. This page is informational and not a trading signal.
Research essentials
Calculators and calendars organize inputs; they do not know your broker's complete contract specification or predict future price.