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FRED - macro indicators

Public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105) · Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

13 curated macro series - not FRED's full 800,000+ series catalog, "begin klein" by design.

SeriesID
CPI, all urban consumers (inflation)CPIAUCSL
Civilian unemployment rateUNRATE
Effective federal funds rateFEDFUNDS
10-year Treasury constant maturity yieldDGS10
Gross Domestic ProductGDP
Producer Price Index, all commoditiesPPIACO
Initial unemployment claims (weekly)ICSA
M2 money stockM2SL
Industrial production indexINDPRO
Advance retail sales, totalRSAFS
Housing starts, totalHOUST
2-year Treasury constant maturity yieldDGS2
ICE BofA US High Yield option-adjusted spreadBAMLH0A0HYM2

DGS10 + DGS2 lets you derive the 10y-2y yield-curve spread, a classic recession indicator, from two raw series - stored as raw observations only, not as its own derived value.

Query it

curl -H "X-API-Key: <your-key>" \
  https://finance.ordinexdata.com/macro/CPIAUCSL

Full validation methodology: FACTOR_VALIDATION_METHODOLOGY.md.

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