BEA release calendar, May 2026

May 28, 2026 GDP (Second Estimate)

Name: GDP (Second Estimate)
Start: 2026-05-28T12:30:00.000Z

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis scheduled GDP (Second Estimate) for 8:30 AM EDT on Thursday, May 28, 2026, and that date has passed. The next one lands Aug 26, 2026. It was one of 3 BEA releases that May.

Awaiting receipt

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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Every BEA GDP (Second Estimate) release date 4 dates on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis calendar, with the next one always at the top

Next GDP (Second Estimate): Aug 26, 2026 BEA news release calendar subscription

Scheduled release time May 28, 2026 8:30 AM EDT Thursday The scheduled time has passed Add every GDP (Second Estimate) date to your calendar

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Sydney 10:30 PM Thursday

Release window

Where GDP (Second Estimate) lands in the trading day

8:30 AM

4:00 AM 9:30 AM open 4:00 PM close 8:00 PM

1 hour before the 9:30 AM Eastern U.S. equity open, so the figure is public before the first trade of the session rather than during it.

What it measures

GDP (Second Estimate), in one paragraph

The second estimate revises the quarter with a month of additional source data. For most quarters it also carries the first reading of corporate profits, which the BEA labels preliminary and revises again with the third estimate; the fourth-quarter vintage is the exception, and its profits arrive with the third estimate instead.

What JMM reads first

The revision itself is the news. Compare it against the advance estimate and note which component moved: a downward revision driven by trade is a different story from one driven by consumer spending, and the corporate profits series that arrives with this vintage is often the more durable signal of the two.

The month around this date

The BEA release calendar for May 2026

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34 5 6789

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24252627 28 2 2930

The BEA calendar carries 3 releases across 2 days of May 2026. The heaviest day is the 28th, which is this one, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.

5
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET
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GDP (Second Estimate) 8:30 AM ET, this page
Personal Income and Outlays 8:30 AM ET

The run of dates

Date 2 of the 4 GDP (Second Estimate) entries JMM holds

Mar 13, 2026 Nov 25, 2026

The source calendar puts these 4 dates a median of 90 days apart. This one falls 76 days after the previous entry. The widest interval in the run is 91 days, between Aug 26, 2026 and Nov 25, 2026.

Previous GDP (Second Estimate) Mar 13, 2026 76 days before this one Next GDP (Second Estimate) Aug 26, 2026 90 days after this one

Event record

Every 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: April 2026
Schedule basis: Stated by the sourceBoth the dates and the release instants are stated by the BEA calendar subscription file itself, which carries an Eastern timezone and one entry per release. Most entries are 8:30 a.m. Eastern and the file states a later time for a few, which is why each page takes its clock from its own entry rather than from a rule. Nothing here is derived.
Effective period: Not specified by source
Scheduled time: May 28, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
JMM retrieval: Aug 14, 2026, 8:17 AM EDT
Forecast connection: None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.

Primary evidence

BEA news release calendar subscription

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

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Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.

Retained artifact SHA-256dbb86bc80b5b99a691a59ffb0651e588c9f2fe5cc920d556208f9d6db890b6ca

Same release minute

One other release lands at the same instant

Personal Income and Outlays Scheduled to the same minute on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis calendar

The release clock

BEA publishes at 2 times of day, and this is one of them

8:30 AM ET 38
10:00 AM ET 1

Every one of the 39 dated BEA entries JMM holds lands on one of these 2 clock times. This release uses the busier of the two: 38 entries across 6 releases, 97% of the calendar. It is a pre-open slot: the figures are public before the U.S. equity session starts. Read in UTC the same slot would look like 2 different habits, because the published file carries a real timezone: the release holds 8:30 AM Eastern through daylight saving and it is the UTC instant that moves. Grouping on the publisher's own clock is what keeps that one habit one row.

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What the BEA calendar carries after this

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET, Jun 9, 2026 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services (Annual Update) 8:30 AM ET, Jun 9, 2026 GDP (Third Estimate) 8:30 AM ET, Jun 25, 2026 Personal Income and Outlays 8:30 AM ET, Jun 25, 2026 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET, Jul 7, 2026

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