Release Calendar

One of the Market Radar screens, it lists the dates the statistical agencies have announced for their coming releases. It also lists the Federal Reserve's announced meeting dates. Open Market Radar

At a glance

• The question it answers. "When is the next inflation figure (CPI, the Consumer Price Index) published?" The agencies that produce these figures publish their own release schedules, months ahead. This screen copies those schedules out.
• What a row tells you. The date, the time where one was published, the release, and the period the release will cover.
• The last figure already on file. Each row also carries the most recent figure this desk holds for every series that release updates. A series is one run of the same figure over time, such as inflation month by month. That figure is a government statistic already published, stamped with the period it describes. It carries no opinion from us.
• No guess at the coming number. The screen shows announced dates and the most recent published figure for each series. That is what is offered.
• The count at the top. How many announced dates lie ahead: releases inside one screen, Committee meetings inside a longer one. The line itself gives both lengths in days.
• The priced move column (2026-09-24). What the S&P 500 fund's own listed options currently charge for the expiry nearest that release's own date, up and down, as priced. Shown on every row, not a chosen few, so this screen stays what it has always been: no importance ranking. Here is one row, spelled out. The date is the day announced for the release. The release is the Consumer Price Index. The period is a month that has already closed. The last figure on file is the inflation reading already published, with the month it describes printed beside it. Key difference: the Macro Tape shows the figures already published. This screen shows when the next ones are scheduled.

Committee meeting rows

• A meeting row carries the meeting's final day. That is the afternoon the statement appears. A scheduled meeting usually runs two days, and the row shows both.
• Summary of Economic Projections. This is a document the Federal Open Market Committee publishes with the statement at some meetings. It carries the members' own rate projections. Where the calendar marks a meeting as one of those, the row says so.

What is not on this screen

• No consensus estimate. The screen carries published figures, not forecasts or consensus estimates.
• No importance stars, no impact column. Releases are not ranked by importance.
• No guessed times. Where a date was published without a time, the time is left blank.
• No guessed dates. A release with no announced date is left off.
• Some series have no release date at all. The fed funds rate, the interest rate the Federal Reserve sets, is published every business day rather than on an announced date.

When a release corrects an earlier figure

Some figures are published early and then corrected as better data arrives. The size of the economy (GDP) is published three times for the same three months. Where the coming release covers a period we already hold a figure for, the row says so. It says the release re-estimates the figure shown. So a number can change without any new period being added.

How current the table is

We read these schedules on a regular schedule of our own, and we keep the last good copy of each one. The line above the table is stamped with the date of what the screen holds. That date is the oldest of the rebuild day and each source's last good read, so a stalled source holds it back. The table keeps serving from the last copy we stored.

Using it with discipline

• A date carries no opinion. Nothing here says a release will move markets, or which way.
• Read the period beside the date. A release next Tuesday can be about a month that closed six weeks ago. The date tells you when the figure arrives. The period tells you what stretch of time it measures.
• Market holidays are marked. A release can land on a day the US stock market is shut. The row says so.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a forecast column? No. The screen carries the announced dates and what is already on file. It stops there. What is the "last on file" figure? The same figure the Macro Tape carries, stamped with the period it describes. Where a row's figure may be one release behind, the row says so.

Related panes

• Macro Tape, the last published reading of each of these series. It is the other half of this screen's question.
• Market Mood, the prices people are paying now for protection against sharp moves, and for credit risk. It is the priced side of the same question.