Finance, Investing and the Economy

Find data reflecting the state of the nation's economy.

• Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Data about the U.S. economy. Includes gross domestic product (GDP), consumer spending, income & savings, industries, international trade & investment, prices & inflation, employment, government and more.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Economic News Releases
    Data on major economic indicators; employment & unemployment; inflation & prices; pay, benefits & workplace injuries; productivity & technology; employment projections; and regional news.
  • Economy at a Glance
    Economic statistics organized at the national, regional, state and metropolitan area levels.
• Census Bureau
  • Business and Economy
    The Census Bureau produces economic data across the entire economy on a monthly, quarterly, yearly and five-year basis.
  • Economic Indicators
    The Census Bureau produces monthly and quarterly snapshots of key sectors within the U.S. economy. Check here for the latest updates.
• Consumer Price Index
  • Consumer Price Index
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides current and historical CPI data. (Find CPI data back to 1913 as "Historical CPI-U [date]" under each month's Archived Consumer Price Index Supplemental Files.)
  • CPI Inflation Calculator
    Compare the buying power of a selected amount of money in two different time periods.
  • Historical Consumer Price Index and Inflation Rates
    The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis provides the CPI annual average and inflation rates from 1913 to the present.
• Economic Indicators
  A monthly publication of compiled U.S. government data on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, etc. Data covers 1995 to the present.
• Federal Reserve Bank
  • Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
    FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history.
  • Federal Reserve Economic Data
    The FRED database provides access to data from more than 815,000 economic time series from a variety of United States, international, public and private sources.
• Interest Rates
  • Federal Reserve Statistical Release — Selected Interest Rates (H.15)
    Updated daily, Monday through Friday at 4:15 p.m. Provides current commercial paper, bank prime loan, U.S. government securities and other interest rates.
  • Key Interest Rates
    The current federal funds rate, discount rate and their historical values from the Wall Street Journal's Markets section.
  • Prime Rate
    The Wall Street Journal polls selected banks to determine the U.S. prime rate. The prime rate is used by banks to set consumer lending rates, for example on credit cards and auto loans.