FRED has added 1137 annual series from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on multifactor productivity. Multifactor productivity is measured as output per unit of combined input to see how inputs are used to produce the goods and services. These data are broken … Continue reading
FRED has added 50 annual minimum wage series published by the U. S. Department of Labor. The data cover the federal minimum wage and the minimum wages of 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and 4 U.S. territories from … Continue reading
FRED has moved to https://fred.stlouisfed.org. Don’t worry, though: All your old links will find FRED’s new place. As you enter, the first thing you’ll notice is FRED’s bold and beautiful graph. By popular demand, the information about the graph, such … Continue reading
On June 24, FRED will no longer include data from the Institute for Supply Management. All 22 series from the Manufacturing ISM Report on Business and the Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business will be deleted from the FRED database, Excel Add-in, … Continue reading
FRED has just added 49 quarterly series from the GDPNow release from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which provides a “nowcast” of the official GDP estimate prior to its release. The GDPNow headline series forecasts real GDP growth by aggregating … Continue reading
The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the May 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.
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
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
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.