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Economic Calendar Updated: 20 Aug 2026, 07:36 CET

This week's economic calendar

Every key US and euro-area release for the week ahead — date, time (CET), previous reading and consensus. High-impact prints are flagged ⭐. Updated daily from the primary feed.

This week

10 releases this week · 1 high-impact ⭐

Wed · Aug 19
Time (CET)EventCountryPrev.Cons.Actual
09:10ECB President Lagarde Speaks🇪🇺 EUR
12:15ECB President Lagarde Speaks🇪🇺 EUR
20:00FOMC Meeting Minutes ⭐🇺🇸 USD
20:30President Trump Speaks🇺🇸 USD
Thu · Aug 20
Time (CET)EventCountryPrev.Cons.Actual
14:30Philly Fed Manufacturing Index🇺🇸 USD41.424.1
14:30Unemployment Claims🇺🇸 USD209K210K
Fri · Aug 21
Time (CET)EventCountryPrev.Cons.Actual
09:15French Flash Manufacturing PMI🇪🇺 EUR5050.1
09:15French Flash Services PMI🇪🇺 EUR49.849.4
09:30German Flash Manufacturing PMI🇪🇺 EUR52.252.1
09:30German Flash Services PMI🇪🇺 EUR49.650.1
How to read it

An economic calendar lists scheduled data releases — inflation, jobs, GDP, central-bank decisions — with the time each one drops and the market's expectation going in. Markets move not on the number itself, but on the gap between the release and consensus. A CPI print of 0.3% is a non-event if 0.3% was expected, and a shock if the street looked for 0.1%.

The events marked ⭐ are the high-impact ones — the releases most likely to move yields, the dollar and risk assets in the minutes after they print. The Previous column is last period's figure; Consensus is the median forecast. All times are Central European Time (CET), Barcelona's clock.

What's worth watching

For the macro picture, the heavyweights are US CPI and PPI (the inflation read the Fed reacts to), Nonfarm Payrolls and the unemployment rate (the labour side of the Fed's mandate), and any FOMC decision or Powell appearance. On the euro-area side, the ECB rate decision, flash HICP inflation and the German ZEW/Ifo sentiment surveys carry the most weight.

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