Our beta-version FRED graphs have a new look with improved accessibility for focus, screen readability, and color contrast. Try our new design and take our survey to help us improve.

• Keyboard accessibility: Keyboard users can easily determine their location on line graphs. They can also navigate to find content and operate interface elements without a mouse.
• Screen reader accessibility: FRED graphs have been reformatted to improve the effectiveness of screen reader text-to-speech software, which can be used to access website content.
• Color contrast: The colors in our graph foreground and background meet color contrast requirements that allow users to visually consume text and non-text elements. Additionally, color is not the sole determinant on multi-series line graphs.

FRED has added 52 data series for the U.S. Census Income and Poverty data release.

The new series show the poverty status of different groups of people and families, organized by their type of family relationship, age, and type of family. The official poverty measure, in use since the 1960s, defines poverty by comparing pretax income to a poverty threshold that is adjusted by family composition. More details are available here.

Dear FRED users,

We’ve updated our Terms of Use, which govern the services and content we provide.

As part of this update, we’re conducting a routine verification of email addresses associated with FRED accounts to ensure they’re current and valid. We kindly ask you to review the email address you use to log in to your FRED account. Accounts with invalid email addresses will be terminated after July 2024.

Here are some of the changes to the Terms of Use for easy reference:

• Prohibition to use FRED® Services or FRED® Content in connection with the development or training of any software program or system or machine learning, including, but not limited to, large language models, deep learning, generative artificial intelligence, or any other program or process commonly known as artificial intelligence.
• Prohibition to use the FRED® API to access any part of FRED® Services or FRED® Content to which you do not have authorization or permission to access or for which the Bank has prohibited or revoked your access, including through termination of your FRED® account.
• Prohibition to use the FRED® API to access FRED® Services or FRED® Content in connection with the development or training of any software program or system or machine learning, including, but not limited to, large language models, deep learning, generative artificial intelligence, or any other program or process commonly known as artificial intelligence.
• Prohibition to use the FRED® API in connection with storing, caching, or archiving any portion of FRED® Services or FRED® Content; providing any stored, cached, or archived portion of FRED® Services or FRED® Content to any third party; or incorporating any FRED® Content in any database, compilation, archive, cache, or other medium.
• Prohibition to use the FRED® API to engage in the wholesale downloading or accessing of FRED® Services or FRED® Content in violation of the FRED® Services Terms of Use.

Please review our updated terms carefully. By continuing to use our website, you agree to the updated terms. If you have any questions, please contact us here.

FRED has added 6 data series for the Visa Spending Momentum Index (SMI).

The SMI is a monthly measure of changes in consumer credit and debit card spending. Reported by Visa, the index is calculated from a sample of current depersonalized transaction data collected from its own payments network. An SMI value of 100 indicates consumer spending is increasing at a pace similar to its long-term trend. SMI values above 100 indicate faster consumer spending and values below 100 indicate slower consumer spending. More details are available here.

On June 3, 2024, FRED will remove all Wilshire Index data. The removed data will no longer be available through the FRED database, Excel add-in, mobile applications, APIs, or any other FRED-related service.

Custom links to these series or custom graphs that contain these series may be broken or may return unexpected results. We apologize for this inconvenience and hope you continue to find value in our free data services.

Contact index.access@wilshire.com for questions related to Wilshire Index data that are no longer offered through FRED.

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