This week's (May 4 - May 8) and next week's (May 11 - May 15) major U.S. economic reports

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This week's (May 4 - May 8) and next week's (May 11 - May 15) major U.S. economic reports

This Week's Major U.S. Economic Reports & Fed Speakers

TIME (ET) REPORT PERIOD ACTUAL MEDIAN FORECAST PREVIOUS

MONDAY, MAY 4
10:00 am Factory orders March 1.5% -- 0.3%
12:50 pm New York Fed President John Williams speech

TUESDAY, MAY 5
8:30 am U.S. trade balance March $60.3B -$60.9B -$57.8B
9:45 am S&P final U.S. services PMI April 51.0 -- 51.3
10:00 am Job openings (JOLTS) March 6.87 million 6.8 million 6.92 million
10:00 am New home sales* (delayed report) Feb. 635,000 631,000 583,000
10:00 am New home sales March 682,000 660,000 635,000
10:00 am ISM services April 53.6% 54.3% 54.0%
10:00 am Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman speech
12:30 pm Fed Governor Michael Barr speech

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6
8:15 am ADP employment April 109,000 84,000 61,000
9:30 am St. Lous Fed President Alberto Musalem speech
1:00 pm Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee speech

THURSDAY, MAY 7
7:30 am Challenger Job Cut Report April 2026
8:30 am Initial jobless claims May 2 206,000 189,000
8:30 am U.S. productivity Q1 1.1% 1.8%
10:00 am Construction spending* (delayed report) Feb. 0.1% -0.3%
10:00 am Construction spending March 0.3% --
1:00 pm Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari speech
2:05 pm Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack speech
3:00 pm Consumer credit March $12.5 billion $9.5 billion
3:30 pm New York Fed President John Williams speech

FRIDAY, MAY 8
5:45 am Fed Governor Lisa Cook speech in Senegal
8:30 am U.S. employment report April 55,000 178,000
8:30 am U.S. unemployment rate April 4.3% 4.3%
8:30 am U.S. hourly wages April 0.3% 0.2%
8:30 am Hourly wages year over year 3.8% 3.5%
8:30 am Canadian Labour Force Survey April
10:00 am Wholesale inventories March 1.4% 0.8%
10:00 am Consumer sentiment (prelim) May 49.7 49.8
7:30 pm Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly, Fed governor Michelle Bowman, Fed governor Christopher Waller on a panel

Next Week's Major U.S. Economic Reports & Fed Speakers

Time (ET) Report Period Actual Median Forecast Previous

MONDAY, MAY 11
10:00 am Existing home sales April

TUESDAY, MAY 12
6:00 am NFIB optimism index April 95.8
8:30 am Consumer price index April 0.9%
8:30 am CPI year over year 3.3%
8:30 am Core CPI April 0.2%
8:30 am Core CPI year over year
1:00 pm Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee speech
2:00 pm Monthly U.S. federal budget April -$164 billion

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
8:30 am Producer price index April 0.5%
8:30 am Core PPI April 0.2%
8:30 am PPI year over year 4.0%
8:30 am Core PPI year over year 3.6%
11:30 am Boston Fed President Susan Collins speech

THURSDAY, MAY 14
8:30 am U.S. retail sales April 1.7%
8:30 am Retail sales minus autos April 1.9%
8:30 am Initial jobless claims May 9
8:30 am Import price index April 0.8%
8:30 am Import price index minus fuel April 0.6%
10:00 am Business inventories March 0.4%
1:00 pm Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammock opening remarks

FRIDAY, MAY 15
8:30 am Empire State manufacturing survey May 11.0
9:15 am Industrial production April -0.5%
9:15 am Capacity utilization April 75.7%
10:00 am Home builder confidence index May 34

Notes and References

MarketWatch updates the schedule throughout the week. Check their site for revisions.

MarketWatch doesn't list the Challenger, Gray & Christmas job cut report. I'll add it when that day comes around.

Note to self: 2026 Challenger Job Cut Report Release Calendar

ADP Announces National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate Publicly Available on a Weekly Cadence

Canadian content: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260410/dq260410a-eng.htm

Next release
The next release of the Labour Force Survey {LFS} will be on May 8, 2026. April 2026 data will reflect labour market conditions during the week of April 12 to 18.

Here's another calendar of US economic events. This one is so hard to format at DU that I'm not even going to try.

United States Economic Calendar

Here is yet another calendar of US economic events that is so hard to format at DU that I'm not even going to try.

Hat tip, jmbar2

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/calendar