Durable goods orders for September are forecast to rise 1.2% to 1.3% when they hit at 8:30 AM ET on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. A viral AI-style summary of the day’s data gets that one right, but a few of its other entries are on the wrong day. Here is the corrected economic calendar for Oct. 27.
Most of the core economic releases in that summary check out. A few headline acts are booked for another night entirely.
Why should you care about a stack of data releases? Three of them hit your wallet directly: home prices, new home sales and consumer confidence. Together, they show whether Americans still feel good enough to buy a house, a car or a new couch.
What really lands on the economic calendar Tuesday
The first big number comes at 8:30 AM ET. Durable goods orders for September are due, according to eOption’s weekly calendar. Forecasts run between 1.2% and 1.3%, and the previous reading was flat at 0.0%.
At 9:00 AM ET, the S&P Case-Shiller index for August and the FHFA monthly home price index arrive. Those two numbers show whether home prices are still climbing even as buyers pull back.
Then 10:00 AM ET is the busy hour. Conference Board consumer confidence for October is expected near 81.2, down slightly from 81.9 the month before. New home sales for September are forecast at 655,000, down from 684,000. The Richmond Fed index also lands at that time.
Here’s the thing about the housing data releases
If new home sales slip to 655,000 as forecast, that is the weaker side of a housing market that has been sputtering for months. Falling confidence would add to the gloom. Still, Wall Street may not blink until the bigger economic data releases arrive later this week.
The economic releases that look misdated
This is where the circulating calendar goes sideways. It shows international trade in goods and retail and wholesale inventories on Tuesday. But Corbett Road’s calendar lists the advance trade report for Wednesday, Oct. 28, alongside the Federal Reserve’s statement.
The inventories data normally comes out with that report, so it is probably Wednesday too, though we could not confirm it.
The same goes for the EIA petroleum report shown at 10:30 AM. Tuesday calendars list the API weekly inventory data at 4:30 PM instead. The government’s EIA report typically comes out on Wednesday, and we found no schedule saying otherwise.
One more detail is shaky. The summary lists an 11:00 AM Treasury buyback announcement. The Treasury’s schedule shows the operation itself running from 1:40 to 2:00 PM ET, buying at least $4 billion of 20- to 30-year bonds.
We could not verify that 11:00 AM announcement time. The Dallas Fed’s Texas service sector survey does release today, but its 10:30 AM time is also unverified.
The rest of the economic schedule this week
Treasury sells $70 billion of five-year notes at 1:00 PM ET, per eOption. Wednesday brings the Fed’s statement, and Thursday brings third-quarter GDP and personal income and outlays.
Corbett Road notes that rising inflation and weakening job gains make another rate increase possible. For context on how inflation data feeds that debate, see our September CPI report coverage. For another look at how Wall Street is weighing the next moves, read our take on the Fed hold and December nerves.
The takeaway? Today’s data is real. Just don’t set your alarm for a release that isn’t coming.
