US Macro Calendar: Fed Meetings, CPI, Jobs and GDP Release Dates

Eight Fed meetings, eight ECB meetings, twelve US inflation prints and as many jobs reports: most of the macro calendar comes down to a handful of recurring dates. This page gathers them all — release times in Eastern Time, projection meetings flagged, and a countdown to the next two policy decisions.

Federal Reserve: FOMC meetings

The FOMC meets roughly every six weeks and releases its decision at 2:00 PM ET. The full 2026-2027 schedule, the dot-plot meetings and how a decision day unfolds are covered on the dedicated FOMC meeting calendar.

ECB: monetary policy meetings

The Governing Council holds eight monetary policy meetings a year, on Thursdays: the announcement comes at 2:15 PM CET with a press conference at 2:45 PM CET. The full schedule, projection meetings and how a decision unfolds are on the dedicated ECB meeting calendar.

US inflation: the CPI

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index once a month at 8:30 AM ET. It is the inflation print markets watch most closely, even though the Fed frames its target in terms of the PCE price index. The full 2026 schedule, the latest print and a base-effect calculator are on the dedicated page for the next US CPI release.

US jobs: the employment report

The Employment Situation report — nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate, wages — lands most often on an early-month Friday, at 8:30 AM ET. Together with the CPI, it is the release that moves policy expectations the most. Paris works to earlier hours, and the INSEE release schedule puts the main French prints at 7:30 or 8:45 local time.

PCE inflation and household income

The PCE price index, published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Personal Income & Outlays report, is the measure the Fed uses to define its 2% target. It comes out three to four weeks after the CPI for the same month, alongside household income and spending; its 2026 dates and latest print are kept, with the CPI’s, on the next US CPI and PCE release page.

US GDP: three estimates per quarter

Each quarter of GDP goes through three successive estimates: the advance reading about a month after the quarter ends, then two monthly revisions. The advance estimate is the one that moves markets; the revisions refine it. That gap between the period measured and the date it is published carries over to the macro regime tied to the month a statistic covers.

These dates are the skeleton; reading the regimes they trace happens elsewhere — across the mechanics of monetary policy regimes, the analysis of macro-financial cycles, and the underlying data series.

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Last updated — 6 October 2026