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What is scheduled, and when

The next ten weeks of Federal Reserve meetings and the statistical releases that move a broad market — each with one line saying what it actually measures, because “PPI” is an abbreviation, not an explanation.

Scheduled economic releases and Federal Reserve meetings
Date	Release	Schedule published by
September 2026
24 Thu	New Residential Construction Worth watching Housing starts and building permits. Rate-sensitive, and therefore an early indicator of how monetary policy is landing.	FRED release calendar
29 Tue	Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey Worth watching Openings, hires and quits. The quits rate in particular reads as a measure of how confident workers are.	FRED release calendar
30 Wed	Gross Domestic Product Moves the whole market The size of the economy and how fast it grew. Published in three estimates, each revising the last.	FRED release calendar
30 Wed	Personal Income and Outlays Moves the whole market Contains the PCE price index — the inflation measure the Federal Reserve actually targets, as distinct from the CPI the headlines use.	FRED release calendar
October 2026
2 Fri	Employment Situation Moves the whole market Payrolls and the unemployment rate. The broadest monthly read on whether the labour market is tightening or loosening.	FRED release calendar
14 Wed	Consumer Price Index Moves the whole market The headline inflation print. Measures what a fixed basket of goods and services costs a household compared with a year ago.	FRED release calendar
15 Thu	Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services Worth watching Retail sales. The fastest monthly read on whether households are still spending.	FRED release calendar
20 Tue	New Residential Construction Worth watching Housing starts and building permits. Rate-sensitive, and therefore an early indicator of how monetary policy is landing.	FRED release calendar
28 Wed	FOMC decision Moves the whole market The Fed's interest-rate decision and the statement explaining it. No projections at this meeting. Two-day meeting, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. The rate decision and statement land on the second afternoon.	Federal Reserve

There is no forecast column, on purpose

Every other economic calendar prints three numbers next to each date: previous, consensus and actual. The consensus figure is a licensed product — a survey of economists, compiled and sold by a data vendor. We do not license it, so we do not have it, and the options were to leave the column out or to fill it with something that looks like a consensus and is not.

A date with no forecast next to it is a fact. A date with an invented forecast next to it is a fabrication with a decimal point on it, and it would be indistinguishable from the real thing until the moment it mattered. So the column is missing, and this paragraph is here instead.

How to read the dates

Statistical release dates come from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis release calendar, which publishes the agencies’ own schedules. They move occasionally — a holiday, a government shutdown — and we refetch rather than hardcode so that a move shows up here.

Federal Open Market Committee dates are the Fed’s own, published years ahead on its calendar page. Each meeting runs two days and the decision lands on the second afternoon, which is the date shown. Four of the eight meetings a year also carry a Summary of Economic Projections — the chart of where each participant expects rates to go — and those are materially bigger events than the other four. The note on the row says which is which.

Schedule last refreshed Sep 19, 2026. Times are not shown because most of these land at 8:30am Eastern and the exceptions are stated by the source; the day is the part worth planning around.