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FRED Expands the Financial Accounts of the United States Dataset

FRED has added 157 quarterly series from the Z.1 Financial Accounts of the United States. The newly added tables include L.203 Net Interbank Transactions, L.208 Debt Securities, and L.214 Loans. These series are published by the Board of Governors of the … Continue reading

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FRED-MD Has Been Updated

The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the September 2015 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 … Continue reading

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FRED Adds Health Care Spending Data

FRED has just added 222 annual series on health care spending. These series, categorized by disease and by provider, are published by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis under the Health Care Satellite Account program.

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FRED Adds Quarterly Wage Data

FRED has just added 774 series on total quarterly wages for all U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. These series are published by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.

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FRED Adds Export Data

FRED has added 20,790 annual series from the U.S. Bureau of the Census that cover the number of exporters by U.S state of origin and country they export to, as well as the value of those exports.

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FRED-MD Has Been Updated

The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the August 2015 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 … Continue reading

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Unemployment Rate Remained at 5.3 Percent in July

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Total Nonfarm Payroll Employment Increased by 215,000 in July

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The FRED API Needs HTTPS

As of August 18, the FRED API will require HTTPS requests. We recommend that you update the URLs in your code as soon as possible. The FRED API has supported HTTPS since June to allow you time to test your applications … Continue reading

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U.S. GDP grew 2.32% in the second quarter of 2015.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s “advance estimate,” real gross domestic product, the value of the production of goods and services in the U.S., increased at an annual rate of 2.32 percent in the second quarter of 2015. In the … Continue reading

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