Skill: Economic Calendar

When to use

• The user wants the economic calendar for today, this week, or a custom date range.
• The user asks for upcoming macro events, scheduled releases, or high/medium/low impact events.
• The user wants a forward-looking list of calendar items before trading.

When NOT to use

• The user wants broad market news and sentiment only -> use market-news-brief
• The user wants a stock price or company-specific quote -> use stock-price-checker-pro
• The user wants company fundamentals -> use stock-fundamentals

Authentication

• Preferred: set TRADING_ECONOMICS_API_KEY to your TradingEconomics credential string
• Supported value format: client:secret
• Optional: copy .env.example to .env at the repo root and fill in TRADING_ECONOMICS_API_KEY
• Fallback: if no API key is present, the script uses Yahoo Finance's economic calendar endpoint
• Important: Yahoo fallback can omit importance and market-expectation fields, and country values are returned as short codes like US, EU, or JP

Commands

Get the default calendar window

uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/economic-calendar-pro/src/main.py

Defaults to 7 days inclusive from the query day.

Get a custom calendar window

uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/economic-calendar-pro/src/main.py <START_DATE> <END_DATE>

Dates must use YYYY-MM-DD.

Examples

# Default window: query day plus the next 6 days
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/economic-calendar-pro/src/main.py

# Start from a specific day and use 7 days inclusive
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/economic-calendar-pro/src/main.py 2026-03-10

# Explicit date range
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/economic-calendar-pro/src/main.py 2026-03-10 2026-03-24

Scheduling

Use this flow when the user wants to schedule a recurring daily economic calendar briefing (e.g. "send me the economic calendar every day at 11 AM CET"). For one-time ad-hoc queries, use the Commands section above.

Scheduling flow

Step 1 — Resolve time and timezone

Ask the user two things. Apply defaults if they do not specify.

| Question | Default | Options | |----------|---------|---------| | At what time? | 10 AM CET (Europe/Paris) | Any time in any timezone | | Which days? | Weekdays (Mon–Fri) | Any combination of days |

Examples of user input and how to parse it:

• "every day at 8 AM New York time" → hour=8, minute=0, tz=America/New_York, cron=cron:0 8 * * *
• "weekdays at 9 AM London" → hour=9, minute=0, tz=Europe/London, cron=cron:0 9 * * 1-5
• "just use defaults" → hour=10, minute=0, tz=Europe/Paris, cron=cron:0 10 * * 1-5
• (no time given) → apply defaults, confirm with user

Always confirm before proceeding. Summarise:

Got it! Here's what I'll set up: 🗓️ Economic Calendar briefing ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM CET (Europe/Paris) 📅 Days: Weekdays (Mon–Fri) 📱 Delivered to: This chat

Shall I go ahead?

Step 2 — Create the daily cron via remind-me

uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/remind-me/src/main.py create \
  "Economic Calendar - Weekdays <HH:MM>" \
  "Run: uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/economic-calendar-pro/src/main.py\nSend the formatted economic calendar briefing to this chat." \
  "cron:<MINUTE> <HOUR> * * <DAYS>" \
  "<channel>" \
  "<chatId>" \
  "tz:<IANA timezone>"

⚠️ Critical: Channel, chatId, and timezone resolution follow the same rules as remind-me (see its SKILL.md). Auto-detect from session context. Never ask the user for these.

Step 3 — Confirm completion

After the cron is created, report back:

✅ Done! Your economic calendar briefing is set up: 🗓️ Briefing: Daily economic calendar ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM CET (Europe/Paris) 📅 Days: Weekdays (Mon–Fri) 📱 Delivered to: This chat 🔍 Manage: Use remind-me list to view or remind-me cancel to stop

Output

The command returns:

• Requested date range
• Auth source used (TradingEconomics API or Yahoo Finance fallback)
• Total event count and covered day count
• Events grouped by day
• For each event: UTC time, country, event name, and available actual / forecast / previous values

Notes

• The script reads TRADING_ECONOMICS_API_KEY from the environment first.
• If no env var is set, it also checks a repo-root .env file before falling back to Yahoo Finance.
• Yahoo fallback is better than guest TradingEconomics for current/future windows, but it does not expose the same richness of metadata.
• Do NOT use web search for this workflow - use the script so the output is date-filtered and formatted consistently.
• For recurring daily briefings, use the Scheduling flow above (creates a cron via remind-me).