Infront Market Calendar Explained

A brand new Market Calendar was introduced with Infront 5.0. In this Q&A session with Infront Product Manager Andreas Sandvold, you´ll learn how you can best use the Market Calendar to get a complete overview of corporate actions and macroeconomic events for the markets you follow.

What type of user will benefit most from the new Market Calendar?

The Market Calendar gives the user a great overview of all corporate and macroeconomic events, so anyone who is interested in following recent and upcoming events will benefit from this new feature. If a user missed an event from the day before, he can even go back and check on what the actual impact of, for example a macroeconomic event, was on the market.

What data does the Infront Market Calendar display? Which countries does it cover?

By default, all users will get access to corporate events such as: announcements, corporate actions, IPOs and dividends. Access to macroeconomic events and quarterly results is available through an additional subscription to DowJones Calendar Live. If you subscribe to Direkt Premium with flashes, you will also have access to Direkt Calendar data.

The calendar provides global coverage.

Market Calendar in the Infront terminal.

What options do Infront users have for filtering the data displayed in the Calendar?

The Market Calendar provides users with a great deal of flexibility to easily create multiple calendar windows and filter calendar data on parameters such as geographical area, event category and date range.

Market Calendar filtering in the Infront terminal

What type of calendar-related notifications can Infront users configure?

All events scheduled for a given time are available for countdown alerts, which users can configure to get notified ahead of important events, and view a countdown timer until the event occurs. This allows users to prepare and react more quickly to calendar events.

How can current Infront subscribers get access to the new Market Calendar?

The Market Calendar feature is available in Infront 5.0, so users currently running previous versions need to upgrade in order to access it. Once upgraded, Infront 5.0 users can easily get access to the macro and quarterly results data by clicking “My Profile” in the top right-hand side of the terminal screen and selecting “DJ Calendar Live” to either purchase or get a free trial of the data. Nordic users will get access to “Direkt Calendar” by selecting “Direkt Premium with flashes” – both purchase and trial options are available for this feed as well.