FRED has just added 40 daily interest rate-related series from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. These indicators explain the movement of long-term interest rates and evaluate the behavior of long-term yields, distant-horizon forward rates, and term … Continue reading
Economic Synopses looks at China’s supply of foreign reserves and potential effects on the U.S. economy.
Economic Synopses describes why deficits are expected to persist and debt is projected to grow.
New FRED design launches in June. Be among the first to see it! GDP never looked so good!
FRED will launch a new design at the beginning of June and we want your feedback now! The new site is here—with bigger graphs, refined menus, and updating metadata above the graph. See this graph of CPI: We changed … Continue reading
The St. Louis Fed’s Beyond the Numbers conference is Oct. 6-8, 2016. You can submit a proposal for a session, panel, workshop, or lightning talk. Deadline: May 31.
Do you have a great idea on how to provide economic information to the masses? Submit a proposal to the St. Louis Fed’s Beyond the Numbers conference held October 6-8, 2016. This event aims to provide librarians and info pros … Continue reading
The Cleveland Financial Stress Index (CFSI) is temporarily unavailable due to the discovery of errors that overestimated stress in the real estate and securitization markets. Additional details will be made available when posting of the index is resumed.
The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the April 2016 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.
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