Monetary policy decisions and economic releases that move crypto, shown in your own time zone.
Crypto trades around the clock, but the size of the moves follows the traditional market timetable. Around FOMC decisions, US CPI and payrolls, Bitcoin volatility jumps and leveraged liquidations cascade.
How these dates are produced: central bank meeting dates are taken verbatim from each bank's official calendar. Indicators with a published release rule (US payrolls on the first Friday, for example) are derived from that rule. Indicators whose date shifts every month carry no date at all — only a link to the official schedule. This site never invents a date.
Official
Central bank decisions
Confirmed dates as published by each central bank.
What each release actually measures, why the market reacts, and which pairs move most.
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Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP)
Impact: high
What it measures
The net change in paid US jobs outside farming, private households and non-profits, released with the unemployment rate and average hourly earnings.
Why it moves markets
Employment drives the Fed's policy path. A large surprise repricess rate expectations within seconds, and the wage component often matters more than the headline because it feeds inflation.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually the first Friday, 08:30 New York time.
The number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first time in the past week.
Why it moves markets
The most frequent read on the US labour market. Single weeks are noisy, so traders watch the four-week average for turning points ahead of the monthly payrolls report.
The change in prices paid by US urban consumers. Core CPI strips out food and energy to show the underlying trend.
Why it moves markets
In an inflation-fighting cycle CPI is the single most important release for the dollar, because it directly shapes how quickly the Fed can cut or must hike.
Release frequency
Monthly, typically mid-month. The exact date changes each month — see the official BLS schedule.
The Fed's preferred inflation gauge, measuring prices of personal consumption expenditure excluding food and energy.
Why it moves markets
The Fed targets PCE, not CPI. When the two diverge, PCE is the one policy actually responds to — which is why a quiet CPI can still be followed by a market-moving PCE print.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually late in the month. Check the BEA release schedule.
Pairs most affected
USD/JPYEUR/USD
United States · U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · Official schedule
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US GDP (quarterly)
Impact: medium
What it measures
The total value of goods and services produced in the US, released in advance, second and third estimates.
Why it moves markets
It is backward-looking, so the reaction is usually smaller than for CPI or payrolls — but a sharp miss changes the recession narrative and with it the expected rate path.
Release frequency
Quarterly, with three revisions per quarter. See the BEA schedule.
Pairs most affected
USD/JPYEUR/USD
United States · U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · Official schedule
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US Retail Sales
Impact: medium
What it measures
The change in the total value of sales at the retail level, including a 'control group' used in GDP.
Why it moves markets
Consumption is roughly two thirds of the US economy, so retail sales is the fastest read on whether the consumer is still carrying growth.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually mid-month. See the Census release calendar.
A survey of purchasing managers in manufacturing. Above 50 signals expansion, below 50 contraction.
Why it moves markets
A forward-looking survey released early in the month, so it often sets the tone before the hard data arrives. The prices-paid sub-index is watched as an inflation signal.
Release frequency
Monthly, on the first business day, 10:00 New York time.
A survey of purchasing managers in US service industries, which make up roughly four-fifths of the economy.
Why it moves markets
Services carry far more of US output and employment than manufacturing, so this print says more about recession risk than the factory survey. The prices-paid and employment sub-indices are read as early inflation and payroll signals.
Release frequency
Monthly, on the third business day. The exact date varies — see the ISM schedule.
The change in prices US producers receive for their output, before those costs reach consumers.
Why it moves markets
PPI usually lands a day or two after CPI and contains the components that feed directly into the Fed's preferred PCE gauge, so it lets traders refine the PCE forecast before the official release.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually shortly after CPI. The exact date changes each month.
Private-sector job creation estimated from the payroll records ADP processes for over 25 million US workers.
Why it moves markets
It lands two days before the official payrolls report and is traded as a preview, even though its correlation with the government figure is loose. Expect a knee-jerk move that often reverses on Friday.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually the Wednesday before the payrolls report.
The number of unfilled job openings on the last business day of the reference month, with hires and quits.
Why it moves markets
The openings-to-unemployed ratio is one of the Fed's stated measures of labour-market tightness, and the quits rate is treated as a leading indicator of wage growth.
A household survey of confidence in personal finances and the economy, published with 1-year and 5-10 year inflation expectations.
Why it moves markets
The inflation-expectation series is the part that moves markets: Fed officials cite it directly, and an unanchored long-run reading raises the odds of tighter policy.
Release frequency
Monthly, a preliminary reading mid-month and a final reading near month-end.
A survey of how households see business and labour-market conditions now and six months ahead.
Why it moves markets
Its labour-differential question — jobs 'plentiful' minus 'hard to get' — tracks the unemployment rate closely, so it is used as an early read on the payrolls report.
New orders placed with US manufacturers for goods meant to last three years or more.
Why it moves markets
The headline swings wildly on aircraft orders. Traders watch core capital goods orders excluding aircraft and defence, which is the cleanest monthly read on business investment.
The weekly change in US commercial crude oil stocks, with gasoline and distillate stocks and refinery runs.
Why it moves markets
The single biggest scheduled mover of oil prices, which in turn drives the Canadian dollar and the energy component of inflation. Holiday weeks push the release to Thursday.
Release frequency
Weekly, Wednesdays 10:30 New York time (Thursday after a Monday holiday).
Pairs most affected
USD/CADXAU/USD
United States · U.S. Energy Information Administration · Official schedule
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CFTC Commitments of Traders
Impact: low
What it measures
Aggregated futures positioning by category of trader, as of the previous Tuesday.
Why it moves markets
It rarely moves price on release, but it is the standard public gauge of how crowded a trade is. Extreme speculative positioning is what makes a currency vulnerable to a sharp unwind.
Release frequency
Weekly, Fridays 15:30 New York time, covering positions as of Tuesday.
Pairs most affected
EUR/USDUSD/JPYXAU/USD
United States · U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Official schedule
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Eurozone HICP (flash estimate)
Impact: high
What it measures
The harmonised measure of consumer price inflation across the euro area.
Why it moves markets
The ECB's mandate is price stability, so HICP is the primary input to its rate decisions. National releases from Germany and Spain the day before often front-run the euro-area figure.
First estimate of purchasing-manager activity in eurozone manufacturing and services, with French and German breakdowns released first.
Why it moves markets
The earliest monthly read on the euro-area cycle, published before the official data. The German and French prints land minutes earlier and often set the direction before the bloc-wide number.
Release frequency
Monthly, around the 23rd. National releases precede the eurozone figure.
A survey of about 9,000 German firms on current conditions and expectations for the next six months.
Why it moves markets
Germany is the largest euro-area economy, and the expectations component has a long record as a turning-point signal for the whole bloc's industrial cycle.
A survey of financial analysts and institutional investors on the six-month outlook for the German economy.
Why it moves markets
Because it polls market professionals rather than firms, it reacts to news faster than Ifo and is read as the most forward-looking of the German sentiment surveys.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually the second or third Tuesday.
Pairs most affected
EUR/USDEUR/JPY
Germany · ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research · Official schedule
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Eurozone GDP (flash estimate)
Impact: high
What it measures
The first estimate of quarterly euro-area economic growth, published about 30 days after the quarter ends.
Why it moves markets
It confirms or breaks the narrative the PMIs have been building all quarter. A negative print revives recession pricing and shifts ECB cut expectations.
Release frequency
Quarterly, roughly 30 days after the quarter ends.
The change in consumer prices in the United Kingdom, including core and services inflation.
Why it moves markets
Services inflation and wage growth are what the Bank of England has focused on, so the sub-components frequently move sterling more than the headline rate.
Unemployment, employment change and average weekly earnings, including the closely watched regular pay excluding bonuses.
Why it moves markets
Wage growth is the Bank of England's central concern for inflation persistence. The pay figure moves sterling more reliably than the unemployment rate does.
Release frequency
Monthly, usually the Tuesday of the second or third week, 07:00 London time.
Monthly economic output, published with industrial production, construction and the trade balance.
Why it moves markets
The UK is one of the few major economies publishing GDP monthly, so the growth picture updates twelve times a year instead of four — and sterling reprices with it.
Release frequency
Monthly, around six weeks after the reference month, 07:00 London time.
Japanese consumer price inflation. The Tokyo area figure is released about three weeks ahead of the nationwide number.
Why it moves markets
After decades of deflation, sustained Japanese inflation is what allows the Bank of Japan to normalise policy — which is the central question for the yen.
Release frequency
Monthly. Tokyo CPI leads the national release by around three weeks.
Nationwide consumer prices, headlined by core CPI excluding fresh food — the Bank of Japan's reference series.
Why it moves markets
After decades of deflation, sustained inflation above target is what allows the BoJ to keep normalising policy. Each print is read as evidence for or against the next rate move.
Release frequency
Monthly, around three weeks after the month ends, 08:30 Tokyo time.
The Bank of Japan's quarterly survey of around 10,000 firms, covering business conditions, capital spending plans and price expectations.
Why it moves markets
The BoJ runs it itself, so it feeds policy directly. The large-manufacturer diffusion index and the firms' inflation expectations are the parts that move the yen.
Release frequency
Quarterly — early April, July, October and mid-December, 08:50 Tokyo time.
A survey of Chinese manufacturers; the official NBS index and the private Caixin index are both watched.
Why it moves markets
China is the demand engine for industrial commodities, so the print moves the Australian and New Zealand dollars during Asian hours as much as it moves the yuan.
Release frequency
Monthly, at the end of the month (NBS) and the first business day (Caixin).
Chinese exports, imports and the resulting trade surplus, in both dollar and yuan terms.
Why it moves markets
Imports are the part that matters for the Australian dollar, because they show whether Chinese demand for iron ore and other commodities is holding up. The release time is not fixed.
Release frequency
Monthly, around the 7th to the 15th. The exact time is not announced in advance.
Pairs most affected
AUD/USDNZD/USDUSD/CNY
China · General Administration of Customs of China · Official schedule
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RBA Cash Rate Decision
Impact: high
What it measures
The Reserve Bank of Australia's policy rate decision and accompanying statement.
Why it moves markets
The Australian dollar is one of the most rate-sensitive majors because of its role in carry trades. The statement's guidance usually matters more than the rate itself.
Release frequency
Eight meetings a year. Dates are published on the RBA site; we do not reproduce them here because the RBA does not publish them in a machine-readable form.
The monthly change in employment, split between full-time and part-time, with the unemployment and participation rates.
Why it moves markets
The full-time/part-time split matters more than the headline: a large gain made up entirely of part-time work does not tighten the labour market the way the number suggests.
Consumer price inflation, published both as a monthly indicator and as the fuller quarterly series.
Why it moves markets
The RBA weights the quarterly trimmed mean most heavily, so the quarterly release moves the Australian dollar considerably more than the monthly indicator does.
Release frequency
Monthly indicator plus a quarterly release, 11:30 Sydney time.
The Bank of Canada's policy rate decision on its fixed announcement dates.
Why it moves markets
The Canadian dollar sits between US data and oil prices, so the BoC's read on how much of US weakness spills north is what traders extract from the statement.
Release frequency
Eight fixed announcement dates a year, published on the Bank of Canada site.
The monthly change in Canadian employment with the unemployment rate and hourly wage growth.
Why it moves markets
It often lands the same minute as US payrolls, which makes USD/CAD unusually volatile: two labour reports for the two legs of the pair hit simultaneously.
Release frequency
Monthly, often the same Friday as US payrolls, 08:30 Toronto time.
The Swiss National Bank's quarterly policy decision and conditional inflation forecast.
Why it moves markets
The SNB meets only four times a year, so each decision carries a full quarter of accumulated expectations. Comments on currency intervention move the franc as much as the rate does.
Release frequency
Quarterly — March, June, September and December, 09:30 Zurich time.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's policy rate decision, with a full Monetary Policy Statement at alternate meetings.
Why it moves markets
The RBNZ publishes its own forecast track for the cash rate. A shift in that projected path moves the New Zealand dollar more than the decision itself.
Release frequency
Seven meetings a year, four with a full Monetary Policy Statement.
Around major releases, spreads widen and liquidity thins out fast, so stop orders can fill far worse than expected. Scheduled times can change and the official source always takes precedence. This page is information only, not investment advice.