+ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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+ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The major resource of this site is FRED, their publicly accesible database. One component is the most recent Federal Reserve Board Statistical Releases. More important are their data files; they have the following categories:

Daily/Weekly U.S. Financial Data
Monthly Monetary Data
Monthly Interest Rates
Monthly Reserves
Monthly Loans
Quarterly Business/Fiscal Data
Quarterly Gross Domestic Product and Components
Monthly Consumer Price Indexes
Monthly Producer Price Indexes
Monthly Employment and Population Data
Monthly Exchange Rate Data
Monthly Regional Data (for the 8th District)
Divisia Monetary Aggregates

Each category consists of a large number of series (forty is not at all uncommon). Each series is available in an ASCII file, suitable for very easy downloading. Most series are available for long or very long periods (but, the most recent values are quite current). In fact, shorter series with just the most recent data are available for conveince. In addition, compressed files are available with all series in each category.
It is an excellent place to go to find current, yet lengthy, macro and financial market data.
You will also find information on the St. Louis Fed, the Federal Reserve System, and job offerings at the bank on this server.

http://www.stls.frb.org

Bill Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>