Market Watch: week of 2 November 2026

A quieter calendar than the week before, with two scheduled events: the Bank of England's November announcement and the US Employment Situation report. Here are the official dates, the clock change that affects the times, and how to tag your trades.

Not financial advice. This page is educational information about how to prepare and review trades around scheduled events. It does not tell you what to buy or sell, it does not predict any market move, and trading leveraged products can lose more than you expect. Dates and times come from the official sources linked on the page and can change, so confirm them before you rely on them.

The week beginning Monday 2 November 2026 follows the heavy central bank week of 26 October. According to the official schedules, it contains two scheduled events that many traders of sterling, the dollar, gold and indices track: the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee announcement on Thursday 5 November, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment Situation report, usually called the jobs report or NFP, on Friday 6 November.

This page lists both events with their official sources, explains how the US clock change on Sunday 1 November moves the times you may be used to, and ends with a short routine for tagging and reviewing trades taken around scheduled events. It does not say what the Bank will decide, what the jobs figures will show or how any market will react, and it contains no trade ideas. Once each event has happened, a short note based on the official release is added to the Daily notes section.

A quiet-looking week is still a good week to practise a habit: write down, before the week starts, which events you will trade around, which you will sit out and why. A plan made in advance is easier to judge afterwards than a decision made with a spread widening in front of you.

The week at a glance

Day	Event	What to know	Official source
Thu 5 Nov	Bank of England MPC announcement	The Bank's date list shows the November MPC Summary and minutes together with the quarterly Monetary Policy Report. The page does not state a time, so check the Bank's release for the exact time on the day.	Bank of England dates
Fri 6 Nov	US Employment Situation (jobs report) for October	The BLS schedule lists the release for 8:30 a.m. US Eastern time, with October 2026 as the reference month.	BLS schedule

Looking beyond this week, the official sources list US CPI on Tuesday 10 November at 8:30 a.m. according to the BLS schedule, then the ECB meeting on 16 and 17 December, the Bank of England on 17 December and the Bank of Japan on 17 and 18 December, and the next Employment Situation report on Friday 4 December at 8:30 a.m. Guides: ECB, BoE and BoJ days, NFP days and CPI days. For the previous week see week of 26 October 2026.

Clocks and time zones this week

The United States moves its clocks back on Sunday 1 November 2026, the first Sunday of November. Europe and the United Kingdom already moved theirs back on Sunday 25 October. From 1 November the gap between New York and London returns to its usual five hours, one hour wider than it was during the week of 26 October.

In practice, an 8:30 a.m. New York release on Friday 6 November falls at 13:30 UTC, because New York is then on standard time, five hours behind UTC, and 13:30 in London, which is on GMT. The same 8:30 a.m. release in the week of 26 October would have fallen at 12:30 UTC. If you plan around fixed local times, a plan built last week can be an hour out.

MetaTrader 5 stamps trades in the broker's server time, not in yours. Many brokers keep their server clock tied to New York, which means their offset to UTC changes on 1 November, but brokers differ, so check yours. The server time guide explains how to find the offset, and the session times converter does the conversion for the dates in this week.

US 10-year Treasury yield (published figure)

The US Treasury publishes daily par yield curve rates, including the 10-year. Its page says the rates are based on indicative bid-side quotations obtained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at or near 3:30 p.m. each trading day. When we checked on 25 October, the latest date shown was Friday 23 October, with a 10-year figure of 5.00 per cent. The Thursday 22 October figure was 4.96 per cent.

This is a record of a published number, not a view on where yields go next. Daily notes in the days ahead quote the Treasury's figure for each day as published, with a link. If you trade instruments that react to US rates, tag trades near rate events so you can review them later.

Sources: US Treasury daily par yield curve rates

The yen and Japan's official releases

The Bank of Japan has no meeting in this week according to the schedule we checked on the week of 26 October, where its two-day meeting ends on Friday 30 October. We state no yen price or direction.

The Ministry of Finance publishes foreign exchange intervention operations in two releases. According to its page, the monthly release latest covers 27 August to 28 September 2026 and is dated 30 September 2026, and the quarterly release latest covers April to June 2026 and is dated 7 August 2026. We did not read any amounts into this page. Check the Ministry's page for the newest release, because the next monthly release has not been confirmed by us.

Sources: Bank of Japan meeting schedule; Ministry of Finance: intervention operations

International meeting dates

This section is meant to list only dates announced on an organiser's own page, such as G7, G20 or OPEC+ meetings. When we checked on 25 October, the official OPEC and G20 pages we tried could not be read (they returned an access error or a page that no longer exists), so we list no international meeting dates this week and do not fill the gap from memory. Check the organisers' own sites if you follow these meetings.

Daily notes

Daily notes for this week start after the first event, on Thursday 5 November 2026. Each event day gets a short entry listing what was scheduled and, where an official release is available, what it said, with the source linked. Nothing is added about where markets might go.

How to use this week in your journal

A calendar is only useful if you do something with it. For each event above that touches a pair you trade, decide before the day whether you will trade it, wait for the first moves to settle or stay out, and write that single line in your notes. Afterwards, tag the trades you took near the event so that you can compare them with ordinary trades once you have a few weeks of data. The guides explain the routine for each type of event: FOMC days, ECB, Bank of England and Bank of Japan days, NFP days and CPI days.

AI Trading Journal reads your closed trades from MetaTrader 5 on your Windows PC and saves them in a journal on your computer, with notes, ratings, tags and screenshots for each trade. The P&L calendar shows each day as a coloured tile with its result and trade count, so an event day is easy to find among the rest. The app does not know the event schedule and never places or changes trades. The dates here come from the official sources, and the tags come from you. To turn the event times into your broker's clock, read MT5 server time explained and use the session times converter.

Limits

This page lists scheduled events and what was published. It does not forecast any decision or market move and it contains no trade ideas.
Dates come from the official pages linked above at the time of writing. Schedules can change, so confirm them in the week you trade.
Times that were not checked against an official page are described as usual or typical, and must be confirmed on the day.
Nothing here is trading or investment advice.

Frequently asked questions

When is the Bank of England decision in November 2026?

The Bank of England's list of 2026 MPC dates shows Thursday 5 November, with the MPC Summary and minutes and the quarterly Monetary Policy Report. The list does not state a time, so check the Bank's release.

When is the US jobs report in November 2026?

The BLS schedule lists the Employment Situation report for Friday 6 November 2026 at 8:30 a.m. US Eastern time, covering October 2026.

Why do event times differ from last week?

The United States changes its clocks on 1 November, after Europe did on 25 October, so the gap between New York and London returns to five hours.

Is there a Fed, ECB or Bank of Japan decision this week?

Not according to the official calendars we checked: the next ones listed are in December. Check each bank's calendar for changes.

Does this page predict the outcomes?

No. It lists scheduled events with official sources and, once they happen, records what the official release said. It contains no forecasts or trade ideas.

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