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FRED Adds Euro Short-Term Rate

FRED has added 7 series on the Euro Short-Term Rate, or €STR, from the European Central Bank. The Euro Short-Term Rate series are meant to replace EONIA, which is discontinued as of 01/03/2022. The Euro Short-Term Rate series provide information … Continue reading

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LIBOR Series Discontinued

The widely used London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmarks are being phased out; in response, FRED will discontinue several related series. Currently, LIBOR benchmarks are produced by surveying a panel of large international banks on unsecured borrowing rates experienced in … Continue reading

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FRED Adds Cleveland Fed’s Inflation Expectations

FRED has added 35 series on expected inflation and real and inflation risk premia from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The series are estimates of the expected rate of inflation over the next 30 years along with the inflation … Continue reading

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FRED Adds EONIA: Euro Interbank Offered Rate

FRED has added the European Overnight Index Average (EONIA), which is the closing rate for overnight loans denominated in euros. To create this series, the European Central Bank (ECB) collects data on unsecured, overnight lending among a panel of banks in the … Continue reading

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FRED Adds Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary (CARTS) Indexes

FRED has added four weekly series on retail trade from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The Chicago Fed Advance Retail Trade Summary (CARTS) is a weekly index designed to track the Census Bureau’s Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS).

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FRED Adds SONIA Interest Rate Benchmarks

FRED has 13 new series of overnight interest rate data from the Bank of England. Banks pay the sterling overnight index average (SONIA) on top of any loans made for purchases of sterling (British pounds) in the overnight market. Because SONIA … Continue reading

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FRED Adds the Interest Rate on Reserve Balances

Effective July 29, 2021, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System will replace the interest rate on excess reserves (IOER) and the interest rate on required reserves (IORR) with a single rate, the interest rate on reserve balances … Continue reading

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FRED Adds “Redlining” Data from Aaronson, Hartley, and Mazumder

FRED has 20 new series of summary statistics from “The Effects of the 1930s HOLC ‘Redlining’ Maps,” which is a recently updated working paper (August 2020) by Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, and Bhash Mazumder of the Chicago Fed. These authors … Continue reading

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FRED Adds Industry Productivity Dataset from Bureau of Labor Statistics

FRED has added over 19,500 new series on industry productivity from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This dataset includes series from the following labor and multifactor productivity press releases: Productivity and Costs by Industry: Manufacturing and Mining Industries Productivity and … Continue reading

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FREDcast Will Be Retired in August 2021

Dear FREDcast players, Thank you for being a part of our FREDcast community. We’ve enjoyed all the great economic forecasting over the past 5 years. After carefully assessing regular usage and the resources we must commit to supporting this product, … Continue reading

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