Economic calendar
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Economic calendars calendar
inform financiers and traders about scheduled major economic indicator releases (like consumer price index
, PMI
, Jobless Claims
), government reports and speeches of influential persons of the financial world. Economic calendars are usually issued on an weekly basis and updated in real time.
Calendar
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years. The name given to each day is known as a date. Periods in a calendar are usually, though not...
inform financiers and traders about scheduled major economic indicator releases (like consumer price index
Consumer price index
A consumer price index measures changes in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The CPI, in the United States is defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as "a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of...
, PMI
PMI
-Computer science:* Portable Management Interface, a platform-dependent interface defined by Sun Microsystems used in network management* pmi , a command line utility for power management...
, Jobless Claims
Jobless claims
Initial Jobless Claims is a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor on a weekly basis. The employment situation is extremely important for a macroeconomic analysis, so the financial markets track employment indicators, although this is a low impact indicator compared with the monthly BLS's...
), government reports and speeches of influential persons of the financial world. Economic calendars are usually issued on an weekly basis and updated in real time.