The Money Calendar — November 2026
By Marcus Bell
November is the hinge of the year. Midterm elections, the last big wave of earnings, and a stack of inflation reports that will decide what the Federal Reserve does in December — all of it lands this month. And the spectacles have price tags too: a marathon, a Grand Prix, a movie opening, and the biggest shopping weekend of the year. Here is the month, date by date.
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1NYC Marathon | 2Apple earnings | 3Election DayJOLTS report | 4Caterpillar, McDonald’s earnings | 5Productivity data | 6Jobs report | 7Berkshire results (expected) |
| 8 | 9 | 10CPI inflation reportCisco earnings | 11Bond market closed | 12Applied Materials earnings | 13PPI report | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17Retail salesHome Depot, Disney earningsNVIDIA earnings | 18Fed minutesLowe’s, Target, TJX earnings | 19Walmart earnings | 20New Hunger Games opens | 21Las Vegas Grand Prix |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25GDP + PCE dataBeige BookDeere earnings | 26Markets closed | 27Early close, 1 PM | 28Small Business Saturday |
| 29 | 30Cyber Monday |
Sunday, November 1 — The New York City Marathon. More than 50,000 runners cross the five boroughs in the largest marathon on earth. The money angle is the scale: charity entrants raised a reported $80 million at last year’s race, before counting a single hotel room, restaurant table, or pair of shoes sold marathon weekend.
Monday, November 2 — Apple earnings (after the close). The biggest company in the market reports its September quarter. iPhone demand and the services business set the tone for the whole consumer-tech trade, and for every index fund that owns it — which is most of them.
Tuesday, November 3 — Election Day. The midterms decide all 435 House seats and a third of the Senate. Whatever the outcome, Washington’s next two years of tax and spending math gets set tonight, and markets will price it within hours.
Tuesday, November 3 — JOLTS report (10:00 AM). Job openings, hiring, and quits for September. The quits rate is the quiet one to watch: when workers stop quitting, wage pressure is cooling, and the Fed notices.
Wednesday, November 4 — Caterpillar and McDonald’s earnings (expected). Two Dow bellwethers on the same morning. Caterpillar reads construction and mining demand worldwide; McDonald’s reads the budget end of the American consumer.
Thursday, November 5 — Productivity and costs (8:30 AM). Output per hour for the third quarter. Productivity is the underrated number in economics: when it rises, wages can rise without pushing prices up with them.
Friday, November 6 — The jobs report (8:30 AM). October payrolls, the unemployment rate, and wage growth. This is the month’s biggest number — the first thing the Fed will look at when it decides on rates in December.
Saturday, November 7 — Berkshire Hathaway results (expected). Berkshire does not announce its date in advance; recent years point to the first Saturday of the month. The cash pile and the pace of buybacks are the closest thing to a market verdict that comes out of Omaha.
Tuesday, November 10 — CPI inflation report (8:30 AM). October’s consumer prices. Shelter and energy do most of the moving, and this print — with one more to come before the Fed meets — frames the whole December rate debate.
Tuesday, November 10 — Cisco earnings (expected). The networking giant is now an AI-infrastructure story. Its order book says whether the data-center buildout is still accelerating.
Wednesday, November 11 — Veterans Day. Stock markets are open for a full session. The bond market is closed, which can make for thin, jumpy trading in anything rate-sensitive.
Thursday, November 12 — Applied Materials earnings (expected). The chip-equipment maker sees the semiconductor industry’s order book before anyone. Its guidance is a read on the AI chip supply chain.
Friday, November 13 — PPI report (8:30 AM). Wholesale prices for October. Producer prices tend to show up in consumer prices a month or two later, so this is the early-warning version of the CPI.
Tuesday, November 17 — Retail sales (8:30 AM). The first hard read on October consumer spending, landing just as retailers make their case for the holiday season. Watch the control group — it feeds straight into GDP.
Tuesday, November 17 — Home Depot and Disney earnings (expected). Home Depot reads the housing market and the do-it-yourself consumer. Disney reads parks attendance and whether streaming finally carries its weight. Both report before the open.
Tuesday, November 17 — NVIDIA earnings (after the close; some calendars say the 18th). The main event of earnings season. Data-center revenue and the outlook for next year will either validate the AI spending boom or give the skeptics their opening. Nearly every retirement account in America owns this stock through index funds.
Wednesday, November 18 — Fed minutes (2:00 PM). The detailed record of October’s rate decision. There is no Fed meeting in November, so these minutes are the best evidence of how the December call is leaning.
Wednesday, November 18 — Lowe’s, Target, and TJX earnings. The consumer, three ways, in one morning: home improvement, general merchandise, and off-price. Lowe’s date is confirmed; Target and TJX are expected. Together they describe the middle-class shopper better than any survey.
Thursday, November 19 — Walmart earnings (before the open, expected). America’s largest retailer and grocer is the definitive consumer report. When Walmart says shoppers are trading down or budgets are stretched, that is the economy talking.
Friday, November 20 — The new Hunger Games opens. Sunrise on the Reaping is the sixth film in a franchise that has grossed $3.4 billion for Lionsgate — a mid-size studio whose year rides on a handful of bets like this one. The book sold 4.4 million copies in English, so the audience arrives pre-sold; the opening weekend decides whether the bet paid off.
Saturday, November 21 — The Las Vegas Grand Prix (8 PM Pacific). Every other race pays a city to host it. In Las Vegas, Formula 1 is the promoter: Liberty Media put more than $500 million into the event, signed on through 2037, and keeps the upside itself. The 2024 race was credited with $934 million in local economic impact — and locals will tell you the road closures are the other half of that ledger.
Wednesday, November 25 — The pre-Thanksgiving data dump (8:30 AM). Three releases in one morning: the second estimate of third-quarter GDP, and Personal Income and Outlays — which carries the PCE price index, the inflation gauge the Fed trusts most. The Beige Book, the Fed’s own district-by-district read on conditions, follows at 2:00 PM. Deere also reports (expected) — a clean read on farm and construction equipment demand.
Thursday, November 26 — Thanksgiving. U.S. markets are closed. The money doesn’t stop: Macy’s turns its parade into a morning-long broadcast for a retailer whose year rides on the holiday quarter, and the Thanksgiving NFL games sit among the most-watched broadcasts of the year — which is why advertisers pay what they pay for them.
Friday, November 27 — Early close (1:00 PM) and Black Friday. A half-day session on low volume. The real story is in the stores and the carts: shoppers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday last year (Adobe Analytics), and this year’s tally, out over the weekend, grades the consumer before any official report does.
Saturday, November 28 — Small Business Saturday. American Express invented this day in 2010 to steer one day of the weekend to independent shops. Reported spending reached $22 billion in 2024, then fell to an estimated $18 billion in 2025 — proof that goodwill has a budget, too.
Monday, November 30 — Cyber Monday. The biggest online shopping day of the year closes the month. Last year set the record at $14.25 billion in online spending (Adobe Analytics), capping a $44.2 billion five-day stretch. Adobe’s tally for this year lands Tuesday and becomes the holiday season’s first report card.
Release dates for government data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, and Federal Reserve schedules; market hours from the NYSE. Earnings dates marked “expected” come from reporting calendars and can move — the calendar is updated as companies confirm. Crossover figures from race organizers, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Lionsgate, American Express, and Adobe Analytics. Sources checked October 22, 2026.