Federal Reserve release calendar, April 2026 Apr 8, 2026 FOMC Minutes the Fed minutes
The Federal Reserve Board scheduled FOMC Minutes, the Fed minutes, for 2:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, Apr 8, 2026, and that date has passed. The next one lands May 20, 2026. It was one of 2 Federal Reserve releases that April.
The scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
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- Denver 12:00 PM Wednesday
- Chicago 1:00 PM Wednesday
- New York 2:00 PM Wednesday
- London 7:00 PM Wednesday
- Frankfurt 8:00 PM Wednesday
- Mumbai 11:30 PM Wednesday
- Tokyo 3:00 AM Thursday, next day
- Sydney 4:00 AM Thursday, next day
Release windowWhere FOMC Minutes lands in the trading day
What it measuresFOMC Minutes, in one paragraph
The minutes are the account of an FOMC meeting released three weeks after the decision. They name the arguments, the disagreements, and the conditions members attached to their votes, none of which appear in the statement itself.
What JMM reads first
The minutes matter most when the statement was ambiguous. Read them for the size of the minority: a decision described as unanimous in the statement can turn out to have had several members arguing the other way, and that split is the better predictor of the next meeting than the decision that was actually taken.
The month around this date The Federal Reserve release calendar for April 2026
The Federal Reserve calendar carries 2 releases across 2 days of April 2026. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.
- 8
FOMC Minutes 2:00 PM ET, this page
- 29
The run of dates Date 2 of the 4 FOMC Minutes entries JMM holds
The source calendar puts these 4 dates a median of 49 days apart. This one falls 49 days after the previous entry.
Event recordEvery clock JMM stores for this record
- Status
- Awaiting receiptThe scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
- Period covered
- Minutes of the meeting of March 17-18, 2026
- Schedule basis
- Stated by the sourceThe Federal Reserve calendar states these dates and marks every future one tentative until the meeting before it confirms it. The calendar itself prints no clock. The 2:00 PM Eastern time is taken from the FOMC statement and minutes press releases, each of which carries the line "For release at 2:00 p.m." with the seasonal timezone; five of those documents were read for this schedule, so for a meeting whose release does not exist yet the time is that precedent rather than a captured fact.
- Effective period
- Not specified by source
- Scheduled time
- Apr 8, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
- JMM retrieval
- Aug 14, 2026, 8:16 AM EDT
- Forecast connection
- None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.
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Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.
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MethodHow JMM keeps release clocks apartSchedule, publication, observation, and retrieval times are stored as four different facts.