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Visit the Federal Reserve Board Data page.

Access data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Go to Sage Data for collected current and historical data.

  • Select Browse Data by > Source > Federal Reserve Board.
  • Search or drill into topics of interest via the left menu.

In WRDS (see access details), choose Federal Reserve Bank Reports for Foreign Exchange Rates or Interest Rates.

Use Bloomberg (see access details) for information from the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve: Type FOMC and hit <GO>.

  • The Federal Funds Rate is the rate banks charge each other for the use of overnight loans of their federal reserve balances.
  • The Discount Rate is the interest rate charged to banks to borrow short-term funds from a Federal Reserve bank.