{"id":65148,"date":"2026-07-21T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalhigh-impact-pmi-and-labor-data-to-drive-market-volatility\/65148\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:12:15","slug":"econcalhigh-impact-pmi-and-labor-data-to-drive-market-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalhigh-impact-pmi-and-labor-data-to-drive-market-volatility\/65148\/","title":{"rendered":"[EconCal]High-Impact PMI and Labor Data to Drive Market Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-impact S&amp;P Global Manufacturing and Services PMI data arrives this <strong>Friday<\/strong> at 9:45 am EST, serving as a critical growth indicator. Initial Jobless Claims on <strong>Thursday<\/strong> at 8:30 am EST provide labor market clarity following today&#39;s ADP report. With markets sensitive to recession signals, expect significant volatility during <strong>Friday&#39;s<\/strong> morning session. Durable Goods orders on <strong>Monday<\/strong> at 8:30 am EST will further influence the Fed\u2019s policy outlook as traders monitor cooling inflation trends.<\/p>\n<p>Traders should prepare for volatility spikes on <strong>Friday<\/strong> morning; a PMI miss could strengthen the case for aggressive Fed rate cuts. Monitor the 8:30 am EST window on <strong>Thursday<\/strong> for labor market softening. Tight stop-losses are recommended around the 9:45 am EST PMI release to manage rapid price swings in equity indices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-impact S&amp;P Global Manufacturing and Services PMI data arrives this Friday at 9:45 am EST, serving as a critical growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[751,3710,3806,3807,4306,14184],"class_list":["post-65148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-pmi","tag-federal-reserve","tag-spy","tag-qqq","tag-dxy","tag-employment-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}