Market calendar: what's coming up
11 dates worth knowing over the next 35 days.
Options expirations, the economic releases that actually move the tape, and mega-cap earnings.
Everything else is deliberately left out — a calendar listing every release is a data dump nobody reads.
Dates are calculated from the exchange calendar, so holiday shifts are already accounted for.
This week
Friday, August 21, 2026
in 2 days
Expiration
Monthly options expiration
The month's largest options expiry. Dealer gamma rolls off, which often frees the tape in the days after.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
in 7 days
Economic8:30 AM ET
Core PCE
The Fed's preferred inflation gauge — matters more to policy than CPI, even if it moves the tape less.
Economic8:30 AM ET
GDP
Headline growth. Advance readings move rate expectations most.
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The next few weeks
Friday, September 4, 2026
in 16 days
Economic8:30 AM ET
Jobs report (NFP)
The month's biggest growth datapoint. Gaps the open and resets rate expectations.
Monday, September 7, 2026
in 19 days
Closed
Market closed
US equity and options markets are closed.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
in 22 days
Economic8:30 AM ET
PPI
Upstream inflation — often the tell for where CPI lands next.
Friday, September 11, 2026
in 23 days
Economic8:30 AM ET
CPI (inflation)
Drives the entire rate path. Options are typically priced for a large move at the 8:30 print.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
in 28 days
Economic2:00 PM ET
FOMC rate decision
The single biggest scheduled vol event on the calendar. Positioning usually unwinds violently in the two hours after the statement.
Economic11:00 AM ET
CPI (inflation)
Drives the entire rate path. Options are typically priced for a large move at the 8:30 print.
Economic8:30 AM ET
Retail sales
The cleanest read on the consumer, which is most of the economy.
Friday, September 18, 2026
in 30 days
Expiration
Quadruple witching
Index futures, index options, stock options and single-stock futures all expire together — the heaviest volume day of the quarter.
What each of these means
Options expiration (OpEx)
The third Friday of each month, when monthly equity and index options settle. Large open interest expires at once and dealer hedging unwinds, which can pin price near heavily-traded strikes into the close. See every upcoming expiration date ›
Quadruple witching
The quarterly version — March, June, September, December — when index futures, index options, stock options and single-stock futures all expire together. Usually the heaviest volume session of the quarter.
CPI, PCE and the jobs report
The three releases that reset rate expectations. They print at 8:30am ET and options are typically priced for a large move; positioning often unwinds hard in the hour afterwards.
FOMC rate decision
The single biggest scheduled volatility event on the calendar. Note this is the decision — the minutes, released three weeks later, are a different and much smaller event.
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