Research Announcements

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.

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 →

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 →

FRED has just added 30 quarterly and annual series on hours worked. These series, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, include both wage earners and salaried workers and are divided into sectors.

FRED has just added 168 series from the Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey and 64 series from the Nonmanufacturing Business Outlook Survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. These releases include diffusion indexes and the survey results used to construct those … Continue reading →

FRED has just added two monthly series on the historical changes in the federal minimum wage for farm and nonfarm employees. These data are published by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Enjoy the upgrades to the FRED App: Log in once and you’re fully connected to all the features in your user account. Enjoy better graph customization, tweet a graph with one click, and (with location services) receive economic data for … Continue reading →