The Scenario
A macro strategist you work with forwarded you a message at 8 AM: "I need the full US and EU economic calendar for the next four weeks — event names, consensus estimates, prior values — in the planning sheet before the team call at noon."
The planning sheet already exists. It has a date range in cells B1 and B2. It has a tab called "Macro Events." It has no data in it.
The bad version:
- Open Benzinga's economic calendar, set the date filter to your range, filter to US and EU events.
- Start copying: event name, country, date, consensus estimate, prior value — row by row.
- Reach event 40 and realize you've been copying the "actual" column instead of the "consensus" column for the last 12 rows because the column headers shifted when you scrolled.
You are a researcher. Your value in the team call at noon is your interpretation of what these events mean for positioning — not whether you can accurately read a table off a screen and paste it into a different screen. The two hours of extraction are not in your job description.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the date range already in your sheet and, through its built-in Benzinga integration, pulls the economic calendar for the window you care about — no row-by-row copying.
Fetch Benzinga economic calendar events for the date range in cells B1:B2, filtered to US and EU events, and write event name, country, date, actual value, consensus estimate, and prior value into my sheet starting at row 2 of the "Macro Events" tab
What You Get
- One row per event in the "Macro Events" tab
- Events sorted by date ascending
- Consensus estimate and prior value as numeric values where available; blanks where the event hasn't published a consensus yet
- Country column contains the ISO country code (US, EU, DE, FR, etc.)
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
What if cells B1 and B2 contain dates in a non-standard format the API won't parse?
Fetch Benzinga economic calendar events for the date range in cells B1:B2, normalize the dates to YYYY-MM-DD format before sending the request, filter to US and EU events, and write event name, country, date, consensus estimate, and prior value into the "Macro Events" tab
What if I only want events rated "high importance" by Benzinga?
Fetch Benzinga economic calendar events for the date range in cells B1:B2, filter to US and EU high-importance events only, and write event name, country, date, importance rating, consensus estimate, and prior value into the "Macro Events" tab sorted by date
What if I have a second tab called "Event Types" that lists the specific event categories I care about, and I want to filter to only those?
Fetch Benzinga economic calendar events for the date range in cells B1:B2 for US and EU. Only include events whose names appear in column A of my "Event Types" tab, and write the matching results into the "Macro Events" tab with columns for event name, country, date, consensus, and prior
What if I want the economic events plus the earnings dates for my 20 equity holdings in one combined calendar?
Fetch Benzinga economic calendar events for the date range in cells B1:B2 for US and EU, and also fetch earnings dates for the tickers in column A of my "Holdings" tab for the same date range. Combine both into the "Master Calendar" tab sorted by date, with a "Type" column flagging each row as either "Economic" or "Earnings"
Merging both feeds in a single prompt builds the full picture without a second lookup.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a date range in two cells, then ask it to populate your economic calendar. The article on pulling earnings calendar data is a natural companion — together they cover the two main event feeds macro teams track.