FRED will no longer include data from State Street: On November 10, 2016, their PriceStats Inflation Series will be deleted from the FRED database, Excel Add-in, mobile apps, APIs, and all other FRED services.
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The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the December 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.
From Economic Synopses: How fast are prices rising? It depends on what you’re buying.
From Economic Synopses: Slow-growth Latin America gets more investment than fast-growth East Asia.
These 13 annual series on households and families come from the Families and Living Arrangements dataset produced by the U.S. Census. This dataset is based on the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) and is weighted according to population. FRED has also added monthly household estimates published in the Housing Vacancies and Homeownership dataset from the U.S. Census. This monthly series uses the Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS) and is weighted according to housing units.
FRED has just created a monthly data series by combining two monthly West Texas Intermediate spot oil price series from the EIA and WSJ. This combination makes one continuous time series from January 1946 to present.
FRED has just expanded the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis by over 20,000 series. This data set contains annual and quarterly frequencies, sector-based industry break-downs, real series, nominal series, and quantity indexes.
From Economic Synopses: The risk of default for oil-producing economies.
From Page One Economics: A primer on financing business and public projects.
The Board of Governors recently announced changes to several data series from the H.15 releases. Because of these changes, the St. Louis Fed will cease updating the following Selected Interest Rate and Interest Rate Spread series: Moody’s corporate bonds, eurodollar deposits, interest rate swaps, state and local bonds, and conventional mortgages.