FRED has added three new series: the key interest rates set by the Governing Council of the ECB for the euro area. These interest rates include: The deposit facility rate, which banks may use to make overnight deposits with the Eurosystem. … Continue reading
FRED has added 153 series from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Quarterly Banking Profile (QBP). The QBP provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. These series provide quarterly aggregate U.S. data since 1984. Also, the … Continue reading
Focus on the Nominal and the Real Value of the Minimum Wage This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. Using GeoFRED® to Compare Minimum Wages Across States This assignment provides instructions … Continue reading
These four series are an extension of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). The SOFR averages are compounded averages of the SOFR over rolling 30-, 90-, and 180-calendar-day periods. The SOFR Index measures the cumulative impact of compounding the SOFR … Continue reading
The Board of Governors has made several changes to the H.6 statistical release, “Money Stock Measures,” to reflect changes announced on December 17, 2020. As of February 23, 2021, the H.6 statistical release is published at a monthly frequency, on … Continue reading
FRED has expanded job posting data from Indeed. The release now features trends in job postings for France and several new metro areas in the U.S. Indeed has discontinued wage-tier posting data, and these data will no longer be updated … Continue reading
The U.S. Census Bureau has updated their Business Formation Statistics (BFS) release, and FRED now includes new monthly data starting in July 2004 (including new data for U.S. Census regions and national data by two-digit NAICS codes). Quarterly data have … Continue reading
FRED has added about 120 series on weekly historical balance sheet records for the Federal Reserve System, starting in 1914 and spanning through April 2018. These series were digitized by Cecilia Bao, Justin Chen, Nicholas Fries, Andrew Gibson, Emma Paine, and … Continue reading
FRED has added about 18,500 new series from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program. The CE program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States, which are primarily used to … Continue reading
Focus on Employment Changes Across Educational Attainment Groups This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. Using GeoFRED® to Compare Educational Attainment and Unemployment Rates This assignment provides instructions on creating the … Continue reading