Labor Dept announces jobs report and other reports') release dates after shutdown delay # ADDED: Feb 16-20 calendar

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Feb 4 about 430 PM ET
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/labor-department-announces-jobs-report-release-date-after-shutdown-delay/ar-AA1VG2Oh

The jobs report was initially supposed to be released this Friday, but the agency’s findings will now be made public next Wednesday, according to an updated calendar on the BLS website ( https://www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lapse-revised-release-dates.htm ).

Additionally, January’s consumer price index and real earnings reports will now be released next Friday. December’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey and Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment data will be released later this week.

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1. Here's this week (Feb 16 - Feb 20) calendar from the S&P 500 thread that I updated Friday

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MONDAY FEB 16

None scheduled, President's Day holiday


TUESDAY FEB 17

Nothing

WEDNESDAY FEB 18

# Housing Starts for November and December

# Building Permits for November and December

# Durable Goods Orders for December

# Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for January

# Minutes of Fed's January FOMC meeting

THURSDAY FEB 19

# Unemployment insurance claims
* SOURCE URL: The CURRENT one is always at: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
This report's permalink: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20260219
* Permalinks for the current one and recent previous ones: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases
. . . and search the page for "Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report"

# U.S. trade deficit for December

# Advanced U.S. trade balance in goods for December

# Leading economic index for December


FRIDAY FEB 20

# GDP Q4 FIRST ESTIMATE
2.5% annualized growth expected,
Q3 was 4.4% annualized rate (I know I know, but the AI spending counts as GDP, even if it produces nothing useful)

# PCE Inflation for December - Fed's favorite inflation gauge
Expected: month-over-month: 0.3%, year-over-year: 2.8% (both numbers same as November's)

This inflation gauge fully includes substitution effects, so for example if beef prices are way up and a lot of consumers switch to turkey necks, this inflation gauge will show a subdued rise or even a drop in the meat price index. But I suspect the Fed likes it because it tends to produce a lower inflation rate than the CPI

* SOURCE URLS:: https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income
. . . CURRENT RELEASE (Last time, for November): https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-october-and-november-2025
. . . Full Release and Tables(Last time, for November): https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2026-01/pi10-1125.pdf
. . . PCE DATA SERIES: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEPI
. . . CORE PCE DATA SERIES: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/PCEPILFE

# Personal Income and Spending for December

* SOURCE URLS:: https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income
. . . CURRENT RELEASE (Last time, for November): https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-october-and-november-2025
. . . Full Release and Tables(Last time, for November): https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2026-01/pi10-1125.pdf

# S&P flash U.S. services PMI for February

# S&P flash U.S. manufacturing PMI for February

# New home sales for November and December

# Consumer sentiment (prelim) for February

SOURCE: https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/
GRAPH, 10 years: https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicsr.pdf
GRAPH, 50 years: https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicsh.pdf


The full calendar: https://www.marketwatch.com/economy-politics/calendar

Revised release dates for Bureau of Labor Statistics reports: https://www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lapse-revised-release-dates.htm

BEA.GOV news release schedule (they produce reports on the GDP, Retail Sales, PCE Inflation (the Fed's favorite inflation gauge), and Personal Consumption and Income: https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule