FRED

FRED is the free St Louis Fed database of every major US economic series going back decades, charts and downloads with no account. When a headline says a number is the highest in three years, FRED is where you check, and every inflation and jobs series lives there.

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  • Dual mandateThe dual mandate is the Fed's job as Congress wrote it: stable prices and maximum employment. The 2% inflation target…
  • Average hourly earningsAverage hourly earnings is the wage growth number in the US jobs report. Wages are the bridge from jobs to prices…
  • Breakeven inflationBreakeven inflation is the gap between an ordinary Treasury yield and its inflation-protected twin of the same…
  • CPICPI, the consumer price index, is the monthly US measure of what a basket of goods and services costs households…
  • Consensus estimateThe consensus estimate is the average analyst forecast for a company's earnings or an economic number. Markets price…
  • GICS sectorsGICS sectors are the eleven sectors S&P and MSCI use to classify every company: energy, materials, industrials…

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