Economic Calendar: Actual vs Forecast, 20+ Countries

A full economic calendar as data: every macro release for the US, euro area, UK, Japan, China, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, India, Brazil and more. Each event comes with actual, forecast, previous and the surprise:

• Indicators: CPI, Nonfarm Payrolls, GDP, PMIs, retail sales, JOLTS, rate decisions, trade balance...
• Speeches: Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ governors and members
• Holidays: bank holidays by country (optional)
• History: past dates return the released actuals, so you can backtest surprises

Filter by date range, importance (high/medium/low), currency and country. An Investing.com economic calendar alternative: no account, no key, no proxy. $1 per 1,000 events, no start fee.

What you get

dateTime (UTC), date, timeUtc, country, currency, event, importance, type, actual, forecast, previous, previousBeforeRevision, actualValue, forecastValue, previousValue, unit, surprise, surpriseDirection, released, eventId, url

actual, forecast and previous are the figures as published ("7.271 M", "2.8%"). The ...Value fields are the same numbers parsed for spreadsheets, with the unit (%, K, M, B, T) in unit. surprise is actual minus forecast.

Example input

The coming week, high and medium impact, all countries (the default):

{
  "daysAhead": 7,
  "importance": ["high", "medium"]
}

Every high-impact US and euro area release since September, with actuals, for a surprise backtest:

{
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-15",
  "currencies": ["USD", "EUR"],
  "importance": ["high"],
  "onlyReleased": true
}

Example output

{
  "dateTime": "2026-09-01T14:00:00.000Z",
  "timeUtc": "14:00",
  "country": "United States",
  "currency": "USD",
  "event": "JOLTS Job Openings",
  "importance": "high",
  "type": "indicator",
  "actual": "7.271 M",
  "forecast": "7.496 M",
  "previous": "7.182 M",
  "previousBeforeRevision": "7.359 M",
  "actualValue": 7.271,
  "forecastValue": 7.496,
  "unit": "M",
  "surprise": -0.225,
  "surpriseDirection": "below",
  "released": true,
  "url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/economic-calendar/united-states/jolts-job-openings"
}

Uses

• Forex and futures traders: the week's high-impact events in one table, scheduled every Monday
• Surprise backtests: actual vs forecast history per indicator, then line it up with price moves
• Trading bots: pause strategies around high-impact releases
• Pair it with ForexFactory Economic Calendar for a second source, and CFTC Commitments of Traders for positioning

Pricing

• $0.001 per event ($1 per 1,000)
• No start fee. A run that finds nothing is free.

Notes

• Times are UTC. Events without a fixed time (holidays, tentative releases) have allDayOrTentative: true and no timeUtc.
• Data comes from the MQL5 economic calendar. The euro area appears as "European Union" for area-wide releases and by country (Germany, France...) for national ones. Use countries to split them.
• previousBeforeRevision is set when the previous figure was revised; previous is the revised number.
• Up to one year per run.