The release calendar lists when the US statistical agencies publish, for this week and next. It is on **Macro View** as the **This week's releases** strip, and in full at palanor.com/calendar.
What each release shows
- **Time.** Eastern time, from the agency's own schedule.
- **Release and period.** The report and the month, quarter or week it covers. GDP estimates are labelled advance, second or third.
- **Prior.** Last period's value, as revised in the same release.
- **Actual.** The new value, once the print reaches the lattice. This is usually the morning after release. Until then it reads **pending**.
- **vs. 5 years.** Where the actual sits among the same measure's readings over the previous five years. The top and bottom tenth are marked.
Each measure is the number the agency headlines: the monthly change in CPI, the monthly change in payrolls, annualized GDP growth. Select a measure to open its signal.
Where the dates come from
- **BLS:** jobs, CPI, PPI, JOLTS, the Employment Cost Index, productivity, import prices, real earnings.
- **BEA:** GDP, personal income and outlays (PCE), trade.
- **Census:** retail sales, housing starts, new home sales, durable goods, construction, inventories.
- **Federal Reserve Board:** FOMC decisions and minutes, industrial production (G.17), consumer credit (G.19), bank balance sheets (H.8), interest rates (H.15).
- **EIA:** the weekly petroleum and natural gas storage reports.
- **Department of Labor:** weekly jobless claims.
- **Treasury:** note and bond auctions.
The calendar re-reads every schedule three times a day. When an agency moves a date, the release moves with it. When it drops a date, the release is marked cancelled. The Department of Labor publishes no claims calendar, so claims follow its standing rule: Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET, or Wednesday when Thursday is a federal holiday.
Importance
Three dots mark the majors: the jobs report, CPI, GDP, PCE, retail sales and the FOMC decision. Two dots mark releases that are widely watched. One dot marks the rest, such as daily interest rates. The Macro View strip shows two and three dots only.
What it does not show
- **No consensus forecasts.** Consensus figures are survey products that data vendors sell. The calendar places each print against its own history instead.
- **First print or revised.** An actual captured within three days of release is the number as first published. History from before the calendar went live shows today's revised values.
In the API
The same calendar is at `/api/v1/release-calendar` and in the Palanor MCP as `palanor_release_calendar`. Values that arrive through a display-only license are withheld there and shown on the page.