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FRED Economic Data

840,000+ economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 30 key series cached locally for LMM acquirers: deal financing (Fed Funds, Prime, 10Y, 30Y mortgage, T-bills), credit cycle (SLOOS lending standards, C&I loans, charge-off rates, HY spread, FCI, stress index), inflation & cost (CPI, PPI, oil), labor (unemployment, payrolls, JOLTS, claims, wages), sectors (housing starts, permits, industrial production, retail sales, capacity utilization), and macro (GDP, M2, sentiment).

api.stlouisfed.org weekly Updated Jun 25, 2026

Latest snapshot

Rows in latest snapshot

14.8k

Last refreshed

Jun 25, 2026

Cadence

weekly

Coverage

840,000+ series; most go back 30–75 years

Total records

840,000+ series

Key fields

  • series_id
  • date
  • value
  • realtime_start
  • realtime_end

Use cases

  • Federal funds rate trajectory (deal financing cost)
  • NFIB Optimism Index (small business sentiment)
  • High-yield credit spread (risk appetite)
  • 10Y–2Y Treasury spread (recession signal)
  • Regional GDP and employment for target market context

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