Where can I get historical Forex economic news/calendar data going as far back as possible?

I’m looking for historical Forex economic calendar/news data going as far back as possible. I already have tick/price data for my Forex pairs going back to **2003**, but the oldest economic news dataset I’ve found starts around **2015**. I mainly need the event date/time, currency, event name, and impact level (especially high-impact/red news). Does anyone know a reliable source that goes further back, ideally close to 2003? **I’m willing to pay for the data.**

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u/stratcorealpha 1 1 day ago

The first paid source I would test is Trading Economics, but I would not buy a plan before they return a sample from 2003. Their official calendar API supports country + date-range queries and returns UTC release time, event/category, source and Importance 1-3: https://docs.tradingeconomics.com/economi… . They also expose point-in-time calendar data, which matters for backtests because later revisions otherwise introduce look-ahead bias: https://docs.tradingeconomics.com/economi… . Calendar responses are capped at 1,000 rows, so pull them in monthly or weekly chunks. For an enterprise fallback, ask LSEG sales specifically for event-level economic-calendar history and entitlements. Their developer material advertises 65 years of economic history, but that does not automatically prove that every release timestamp and impact label is available back to 2003. Before paying anyone, request a 2003 sample for USD/EUR/GBP/JPY and verify: UTC timestamp and DST handling, stable event ID, country/currency, event name, impact, actual/forecast/previous, revision timestamp, and cancelled/rescheduled releases. “Red/high impact” is usually a vendor taxonomy, not an official government field, so do not mix impact labels from different vendors. If no vendor covers it, you can reconstruct a smaller event set from BLS/BEA/Fed/ECB/BoE release archives, but you will not reproduce a historical red-news label exactly.
u/zurichbtc 1 1 day ago

have you checked out https://www.financialdatasets.ai?