Research Announcements

Effective September 30th, 2013, the United States federal government may suspend updates of some data series. We will monitor the situation and update the series in the FRED database as soon as new data are made available. Affected Sources: BEA, … Continue reading →

These 104 annual series from the Census’s Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States dataset represent median household income and real median household income on both the national and state levels.

FRED has added 165 monthly series for the European Union (28 countries) from the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices release from Eurostat. Also, a revision has been made to the European Union continuing composition series to include Croatia, the 28th … Continue reading →

These 220 data series from the Census’s Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey represent sales, inventories, and inventories-to-sales ratios of merchant wholesalers for selected durable and nondurable goods categories.

We have added two new features to the FRED API, a web service that allows developers to write programs that retrieve economic data.

These 4,542 international series from the University of Groningen’s Penn World Table 8.0 include important economic indicators such as purchasing power parity-converted GDP, productivity, household consumption, population levels, and exchange rates for 167 countries.

These 33 quarterly series published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimate the effect of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on selected federal government receipts and expenditures.

This data series produced by Nikkei, Inc. is a daily stock market index that includes 225 companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei 225 is considered the leading index of Japanese stocks.