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Week ahead · October 12, 2026

Futures Week Ahead, 12⁠–⁠16 October 2026: CPI, PPI

September's CPI on Wednesday and PPI on Thursday, Columbus Day moving the EIA's crude report to Thursday noon, and the dates just past Friday: November crude's expiry and the Fed on 28 October.

Inflation is the week's scheduled story. September's consumer prices come out on Wednesday and producer prices on Thursday, both at 8:30 a.m. ET, an hour before the US stock market opens and well inside the overnight session for anyone trading from Europe or Asia.

Monday is Columbus Day. The bond market and the banks are shut; the stock market and the equity index futures trade a normal session. The holiday moves the EIA's crude oil inventory report from Wednesday to Thursday at noon ET, the same morning as the natural gas storage report at 10:30.

Just past Friday: the November crude oil contract stops trading on Tuesday 20 October, and CL volume usually shifts to December in the days before; and the Fed's next rate decision is on Wednesday 28 October.

Day by day

Times are New York (ET). For your own clock, pick your country under trading from. Every date links to the agency or exchange that sets it; the full schedule is on the market calendar.

  1. Monday

    12 October

    Nothing scheduled that moves US futures by itself.

  2. Tuesday

    13 October

    Nothing scheduled that moves US futures by itself.

  3. Wednesday

    14 October

    • 8:30 a.m.CPI, September 2026Release · ES NQ YM RTY GC · Consumer prices, the headline inflation number. BLS

  4. Thursday

    15 October

    • 8:30 a.m.PPI, September 2026Release · ES NQ YM RTY · Producer prices, upstream of CPI. BLS
    • 10:30 a.m.EIA natural gas storageWeekly report · NG EIA
    • noonEIA crude oil inventoriesWeekly report · CL · Moved a day by the holiday. EIA

  5. Friday

    16 October

    Nothing scheduled that moves US futures by itself.

Sources:

Dates read October 26, 2026; agencies occasionally move a release, and their page is the authority.

Sources: BLS (CPI, September 2026), BLS (PPI, September 2026), EIA (EIA natural gas storage), EIA (EIA crude oil inventories). Dates read October 26, 2026; agencies occasionally move a release, and their page is the authority.

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