US Economic Calendar + Canada (Official Sources)

An economic release calendar for stock, futures, FX and rates traders, with actual and prior values. Every row comes from an official government or central-bank source. Nothing is scraped from Investing.com, ForexFactory or other commercial sites, so there's no ToS risk and no breakage when those sites change.

United States (primary)

Indicator	Agency	Schedule source	Actual source
Nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, avg hourly earnings (Employment Situation)	BLS	bls.gov 2026 release schedule	BLS Public Data API (FRED copy of the same BLS series as fallback)
CPI m/m, CPI y/y, core CPI m/m	BLS	bls.gov	BLS API
PPI final demand, JOLTS job openings, Employment Cost Index	BLS	bls.gov	BLS API / FRED (BLS series)
Real GDP, PCE & core PCE prices, personal income, personal spending, trade balance	BEA	BEA release calendar (iCal)	FRED copies of BEA series
Retail sales, durable goods, housing starts, new home sales, construction spending, factory orders	Census	census.gov economic indicator calendar	census.gov Economic Indicators (latest release); FRED (Census series) for older releases
FOMC rate decision (target range), FOMC minutes	Federal Reserve	federalreserve.gov FOMC calendar	Fed target range (DFEDTARL/DFEDTARU)
Initial jobless claims (weekly)	DOL	Thursdays 08:30 ET (Wednesday before a Thursday holiday)	FRED ICSA (DOL series)
Treasury auctions (optional)	US Treasury	FiscalData Upcoming Auctions API	–

Canada (secondary): CPI y/y and m/m, Labour Force Survey (employment change, unemployment rate), GDP (monthly and quarterly), retail trade, merchandise trade, manufacturing, wholesale, building permits, SEPH and IPPI. All from the Statistics Canada release schedule and WDS API. Bank of Canada rate decisions come with the overnight target (Valet API).

Each row includes: country, indicator, release datetime with timezone (America/New_York, plus UTC), period, actual, prior, unit, status (scheduled/released), the release's source URL, and the source URL for the actual value. No consensus forecasts: those are proprietary and no official source publishes them (forecast is always null).

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per run (run) + $0.002 per calendar row (event). A 30-day US calendar with high/medium importance is about 50 rows, roughly $0.10.

Input examples

Next 30 days plus the last 7 days of actuals, US and Canada:

{"country": "both"}

Only market-moving US events for a date range:

{"country": "US", "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-11-30", "minImportance": "high"}

Specific indicators:

{"indicators": ["us_cpi_yoy", "us_nfp", "us_fomc_decision", "ca_cpi_yoy", "boc_rate_decision"], "daysBack": 90, "daysAhead": 60}

Output example

{"country": "US", "indicator": "us_nfp", "indicator_name": "Nonfarm Payrolls (change)", "agency": "BLS", "importance": "high",
 "release_datetime": "2026-10-02T08:30:00-04:00", "release_datetime_utc": "2026-10-02T12:30:00Z", "timezone": "America/New_York",
 "period": "2026-09", "actual": 29.0, "prior": 133.0, "unit": "thousands of jobs, m/m change, SA", "status": "released",
 "source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/home.htm", "actual_source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001", "forecast": null}

Notes and limits

• Actual and prior values are the latest available (possibly revised) values for the period, not necessarily the first print. Census rows for the most recent release use the figures exactly as Census published them.
• BLS blocks automated access to its schedule pages, so the 2026 BLS dates are embedded from https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/home.htm. The 2026 Bank of Canada dates are embedded from its official 2026 schedule. 2027 dates are added once those agencies publish them.
• The BLS API without a key has a small daily quota. When it runs out, the Actor falls back to FRED copies of the same public-domain BLS series. Only public-domain US government series are used from FRED.
• FOMC minutes appear once the Fed lists their release date. Times are 14:00 ET for FOMC statements and minutes.
• Use the WARNINGS record in the key-value store to see if any source was unavailable during a run.

Attribution and licences

• US data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, Department of Labor, Federal Reserve Board, U.S. Treasury (FiscalData). These are U.S. government works in the public domain. Some values are retrieved via FRED®, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. No agency endorses this Actor.
• Statistics Canada: Source: Statistics Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada).
• Bank of Canada: Source: Bank of Canada, under its terms of use (https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/). This information is available free of charge on the Bank of Canada website (https://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/monetary-policy/key-interest-rate/). This Actor charges for aggregation and processing, not for the data. The Bank of Canada does not endorse this Actor.

Disclaimer

For information only. Not investment, trading or financial advice. Release dates can change (government shutdowns, rescheduling), and data can be revised. Always check the agency's website before trading. Provided "as is" without warranty. Not affiliated with any government agency or central bank.