Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) for Excel

The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis has released a new Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) add-in accessory for Excel (Microsoft). The FRED add-in provides direct access to over 30,000 free data series from a variety of sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, & OECD) directly from Excel. Other key features include:

• One-click instant download of economic time series.
• Browse the most popular data and search the FRED database.
• Quick and easy data frequency conversion and growth rate calculations.
• Instantly refresh and update spreadsheets with newly released data.
• Create graphs with NBER recession shading and an auto update feature.

The video below provides a quick summary of features.



Follow the link below to download a copy of the FRED add-in software or to learn more.

FRED

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