Economic calendar

An economic calendar lists every scheduled release of the week with its time and consensus forecast. Set one to IST once and check it every Sunday night; US numbers land at 6:00 PM IST on release days, and Mocha Markets Weekly on the blog picks the ones that matter.

Go on

In MochaLearnSee how the Fed moves US markets in MochaLearn
  • Dot plotThe dot plot is the chart of where each Fed official expects the policy rate to be over the next few years, one dot…
  • FOMCThe FOMC is the Federal Open Market Committee, the twelve voters inside the Fed who set the policy rate at eight…
  • FOMC minutesThe FOMC minutes are the written record of a Fed meeting, released three weeks after the decision at 11:30 PM IST…
  • FREDFRED is the free St Louis Fed database of every major US economic series going back decades, charts and downloads with…
  • SPY ETFSPY is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, the first US-listed ETF (1993) and one of the most traded securities on earth, so its…
  • Trading haltA trading halt freezes a US stock on every exchange at once. A news halt lets everyone read an announcement before…

Where it comes up