FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API

FRED provides access to over 800,000 economic time series from dozens of national, international, public, and private sources. Data covers GDP, employment, inflation, interest rates, money supply, housing, trade, consumer sentiment, and more. Series can be retrieved individually or in bulk by release, with support for frequency aggregation, unit transformations, and date filtering. FRED is maintained by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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What you can query

You can fetch observations for any series by ID with date range, frequency, and unit transformation options (series/observations), and search for series by keywords sorted by popularity or relevance (series/search). Common series include GDP (GDPC1), unemployment rate (UNRATE), CPI (CPIAUCSL), federal funds rate (DFF), 10-year Treasury yield (DGS10), and housing starts (HOUST).

What you can do

  • Economic research and academic analysis
  • Financial modeling and investment analysis
  • Macroeconomic forecasting and trend analysis
  • Inflation and monetary policy monitoring
  • Labor market and employment analysis
  • Treasury yield curve analysis
  • Business cycle and recession analysis
  • Historical economic data visualization

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