Q4 2026 Market Calendar

Reading sequence

How to read this quarter

An announcement is one part of a sequence. Ask what it updates and which release could confirm or challenge the initial reading.

1. 01

   Start with schedule status and time zones: separate confirmed dates and times from time-TBD entries, then account for CT, KST, the November 1 DST change, and holiday exceptions.

2. 02

   Distinguish an FOMC decision, economic projections, and minutes, and treat the three GDP publications as successive estimates of Q3 rather than three separate quarters.

3. 03

   Note whether payrolls, CPI, PPI, PCE, or ECI is updating labor, consumer prices, pipeline prices, income and spending, or compensation costs.

4. 04

   Compare Fed, ECB, BOK, BOE, BOJ, and RBA communications and the interval to each institution’s next meeting instead of inferring currency direction from policy-rate levels alone.

5. 05

   For crowded late-October and December clusters, separate timestamps; for the U.S. midterm election, distinguish the local voting date from the Korean-time results window and attribute observations only to information already available.

6. 06

   Keep OPEC+ meetings, EIA inventories, WASDE, and Cattle on Feed on a separate physical-supply track, including reference periods, revisions, and holiday-adjusted schedules.

Weekly reference

Weekly reports to track alongside this calendar

Weekly releases can shift around U.S. holidays. Always confirm the latest time on the official schedule.