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Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions (macro.calendar)

The scheduled dates ahead and the latest US releases as they came out: the next Producer Price Index, retail sales, GDP and Personal Income and Outlays releases, the FOMC minutes, the Federal Reserve's and the ECB's next decisions, Treasury's next quarterly refunding release and the Treasury coupon auctions of the week ahead on Treasury's tentative schedule, or the next one when the week has none, each dated from its publisher's own calendar (dates only, no figures from them); and the US Employment Situation, Consumer Price Index and weekly initial claims as release state: for each, the latest release and when it came out, its headline figures within that one release with each figure's estimate (first, second, advance, revised), what the release revised, and the next scheduled release, all from the publishers' own figures with every version kept. Beside it the federal funds rate, the days to the next Treasury auction, euro area HICP and the BoJ policy rate.

Tier: basic | 4 metrics

Metrics included: fed-funds-rate, next-treasury-auction-days, eu-cpi, boj-policy-rate

Metrics in this briefing

• Effective Federal Funds Rate: The Effective Federal Funds Rate (EFFR), in percent: the New York Fed's volume weighted median of overnight federal funds lending between banks, each business day, published about 9:00 the next business day, New York time. Business days only: a weekend or holiday date reads the business day before it. Subject to the New York Fed's Terms of Use; PreReason is not affiliated with the New York Fed. Primary US monetary policy stance indicator.
• Days to Next Treasury Auction: Days to the next announced Treasury auction of any tenor on Treasury's Fiscal Data feed: PreReason's count, rounded up from the reading's UTC time. The date is Treasury's, and the sentence names it.
• Euro Area HICP (19 countries): The euro area's Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices, all items, an index with 2025 = 100, for the euro area of 19 countries, a fixed composition, not the euro area as it stands (21 countries since 2026): monthly, from Eurostat's own dissemination API. The newest month is Eurostat's flash estimate until the final figure replaces it, about two weeks later, and each answer names which it serves (Source: Eurostat (flash estimate), or Source: Eurostat).
• Bank of Japan Policy Rate: The Bank of Japan's policy rate, in percent: its guideline for the uncollateralized overnight call rate, daily, as the BIS compiles central bank policy rates (it names the Bank of Japan as its source and posts about a week behind a decision). Read since 2026-10-01; until then this name served the OECD's Japan 3 month interbank rate, which ran above the policy rate. Anchors the carry trade yield differential.

Questions about the Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions briefing

What is in the Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions briefing?

The scheduled dates ahead and the latest US releases as they came out: the next Producer Price Index, retail sales, GDP and Personal Income and Outlays releases, the FOMC minutes, the Federal Reserve's and the ECB's next decisions, Treasury's next quarterly refunding release and the Treasury coupon auctions of the week ahead on Treasury's tentative schedule, or the next one when the week has none, each dated from its publisher's own calendar (dates only, no figures from them); and the US Employment Situation, Consumer Price Index and weekly initial claims as release state: for each, the latest release and when it came out, its headline figures within that one release with each figure's estimate (first, second, advance, revised), what the release revised, and the next scheduled release, all from the publishers' own figures with every version kept. Beside it the federal funds rate, the days to the next Treasury auction, euro area HICP and the BoJ policy rate. It holds 4 metrics, each figure with the date it describes and the source it came from.

Which plan reads the Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions briefing?

The Basic plan reads it, and every plan above Basic.

How does an AI agent read the Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions briefing?

Over MCP, with the get_context tool and the briefing id macro.calendar. Over REST, with GET https://api.prereason.com/api/context?briefing=macro.calendar and an API key, as Markdown (the default) or JSON (format=json).

Can I read the Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions briefing as of a past date?

Yes, with date=YYYY-MM-DD. A dated read serves only periods released by that date, and each figure says when it was public, or that it may be a later revision. How far back depends on the plan; on the Basic plan: The last 3 years. Higher plans reach further.

Where does the data in the Macro Calendar: Releases, Decisions and Auctions briefing come from?

Each figure names its source and the date it describes. The data sources page (https://www.prereason.com/data-sources) lists every source PreReason reads.

API: GET /api/context?briefing=macro.calendar

Format options: ?format=markdown (default) or ?format=json

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