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Economic Policy Uncertainty : News-Based for the United States was 715.59055 Index in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Economic Policy Uncertainty : News-Based for the United States reached a record high of 715.59055 in April of 2025 and a record low of 44.78275 in July of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Economic Policy Uncertainty : News-Based for the United States - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

This dataset contains the textual data of Federal Reserve Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting statements and minutes. Its purpose is to provide a historical archive of communications from the US central bank, offering valuable context and insights into monetary policy decisions and economic outlooks over time. The dataset is regularly updated, ensuring access to the latest official communications.

Columns

• Date: This column specifies the date of the actual FOMC meeting.
• Release Date: This indicates when the statement or minutes were officially released to the public. It is important to note that minutes are typically released with approximately a three-week lag from the meeting date.
• Type: This column categorises the communication, distinguishing between a formal 'statement' and the more detailed 'minutes' of the meeting.
• Text: This contains the full textual content of each communication release, whether it is a statement or minutes.

Distribution

The dataset is typically provided in a CSV (Comma Separated Values) format. It includes communications from 2 February 2000 to 18 June 2025. The file is updated on a weekly basis with new data sourced directly from the Federal Reserve website. Based on available information, there are approximately 420 records within the specified date range. The dataset comprises roughly 52% minutes and 48% statements.

Usage

This dataset is ideal for various applications and use cases, particularly within finance, banking, and economics. It can be used for: * Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as sentiment analysis or topic modelling on central bank communications. * Economic research to analyse policy shifts, communication strategies, and their impact on financial markets. * Financial modelling and forecasting, by integrating insights from official monetary policy communications. * Academic studies on central banking, macroeconomic policy, and financial history.

Coverage

The dataset covers the period from 2 February 2000 to 18 June 2025, providing an extensive historical record of FOMC communications. While the content focuses on US monetary policy, which is inherently US-centric, the dataset's availability is global, making it accessible to users worldwide. There are no specific notes on data availability for certain demographic groups or years, as the data represents official public releases.

License

CC0

Who Can Use It

This dataset is designed for a wide range of users, including: * Financial analysts and economists seeking to understand and forecast monetary policy decisions. * Data scientists and machine learning engineers developing NLP models for financial text. * Academic researchers in economics, finance, and political science studying central bank behaviour and communication. * Government policy advisors interested in historical policy decisions and their effects. * Journalists and media professionals reporting on economic and financial news.

Dataset Name Suggestions

• Federal Reserve FOMC Communications Archive
• US Monetary Policy Statements and Minutes
• Central Bank Economic Communications
• FOMC Historical Document Collection

Attributes

Original Data Source: FOMC Meeting Statements & Minutes

High-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements are a standard method of measuring monetary policy shocks. However, some recent studies have documented puzzling effects of these shocks on private-sector forecasts of GDP, unemployment, or inflation that are opposite in sign to what standard macroeconomic models would predict. This evidence has been viewed as supportive of a "Fed information effect" channel of monetary policy, whereby an FOMC tightening (easing) communicates that the economy is stronger (weaker) than the public had expected. We show that these empirical results are also consistent with a "Fed response to news" channel, in which incoming, publicly available economic news causes both the Fed to change monetary policy and the private sector to revise its forecasts. We provide substantial new evidence that distinguishes between these two channels and strongly favors the latter; for example, (i) regressions that include the previously omitted public economic news, (ii) a new survey that we conduct of Blue Chip forecasters, and (iii) high-frequency financial market responses to FOMC announcements all suggest that the Fed and private sector are simply responding to the same public news, with relatively little role for a "Fed information effect".

This data package includes the underlying data files to replicate the calculations, charts, and tables presented in Bad news for the Fed from the Beveridge space, PIIE Policy Brief 22-7.

If you use the data, please cite as: Blanchard, Olivier, Alex Domash, and Lawrence Summers (2022). Bad news for the Fed from the Beveridge space, PIIE Policy Brief 22-7. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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This dataset summarizes the impact of federal policy and funding changes on nonprofits, municipalities, and businesses in Connecticut, as reported in the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management's Federal Impact Reporting Tool: https://www.appsvcs.opm.ct.gov/FedImpact This dataset shows the count of reported incidents grouped by state agency and is based on the main Federal Impact Reporting dataset here: https://data.ct.gov/Government/Federal-Impact-Reporting/cyas-fb55/about_data Impacts reported include funding reductions, pauses and delays in accessing funds, as well as employment reductions, and impacts from tariffs. Duplicate responses to the survey have been removed from this dataset. More information on the Federal Impact Reporting Tool can be found here: https://portal.ct.gov/governor/news/press-releases/2025/04-2025/governor-lamont-launches-reporting-tool-for-entities-impacted-by-recent-federal-actions

We introduce a novel method for estimating a monetary policy rule using macroeconomic news. We estimate directly the policy rule agents use to form their expectations by linking news' effects on forecasts of both economic conditions and monetary policy. Evidence between 1994 and 2007 indicates that the market-perceived Federal Reserve policy rule changed: the output response vanished, and the inflation response path became more gradual but larger in long-run magnitude. These response coefficient estimates are robust to measurement and theoretical issues with both potential output and the inflation target. (JEL C51, E31, E43, E52, E58)

The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "Effect of News and Noise Shocks of U.S. Monetary Policy on Economic Fluctuations in Emerging Market Economies", by Kim and Kim. Please see the ReadMe file for additional details.

The benchmark interest rate in Japan was last recorded at 0.50 percent. This dataset provides - Japan Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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This dataset summarizes the impact of federal policy and funding changes on nonprofits, municipalities, and businesses in Connecticut, as reported in the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management's Federal Impact Reporting Tool: https://www.appsvcs.opm.ct.gov/FedImpact

Impacts reported include funding reductions, pauses and delays in accessing funds, as well as employment reductions, and impacts from tariffs.

Additional tables summarizing the incidents by problem experienced and state agency are available at the links below:

Federal Impact Reporting: Incidents by State Agency - https://data.ct.gov/Government/Federal-Impact-Reporting-Incidents-by-State-Agency/9d7b-7key/about_data Federal Impact Reporting: Incidents by Problem Experienced - https://data.ct.gov/Government/Federal-Impact-Reporting-Incidents-by-Problem-Expe/eubu-yyxh/about_data

Duplicate responses to the survey have been removed from this dataset.

More information on the Federal Impact Reporting Tool can be found here: https://portal.ct.gov/governor/news/press-releases/2025/04-2025/governor-lamont-launches-reporting-tool-for-entities-impacted-by-recent-federal-actions

The focus of this survey was the detailed analysis of the population´s media use in the context of political information. In addition to the relevance of political information, statements on media preferences and the importance of local content as well as the individualizability of information were collected. The connection between information availability and information behaviour was also examined more closely. The main focus was on the topics ´credibility of the different media´ and ´dealing with fake news´. Finally, the awareness of different communication media of the Federal Government, their use and their evaluation were surveyed. In the run-up to the population survey, a comprehensive qualitative survey (in-depth interviews) was conducted, which served as a basis for the development of the survey instrument.

Topics: Importance of being informed about current issues; interest in politics; frequency of contact with politics (at work, school or university, personal conversations with friends or family, use of social networks on the Internet, leisure time, public events, everyday media consumption); forms of political activity in the last twelve months (supported petition or collection of signatures, participated in a demonstration, boycotted certain products, engaged in a citizens´ initiative, attended lectures and events on political topics); interests in local, regional and national political information; self-assessment of the level of information on various topics (international politics outside Europe, politics in Europe, work of the federal government, work of the state government, local political topics from the community/region); media preferences: frequency of use of different media for information on local, national or international topics (public television, major private television programmes, local TV programmes, radio, printed national newspapers and magazines, local and regional daily newspapers, free advertising, weekly and community newspapers, Internet news websites and apps, Internet news blogs, news on social networks, podcasts, articles and information distributed by the federal government itself); reasons for not using digital information offerings; statements on media use of political topics print/online (search specifically for information on a political topic, come across interesting political topics at random, skim the headlines, read an article/background report on a political event in its entirety, tell other people about articles/videos read, share articles or videos on social networks, comment on articles or videos on news portals or social networks); credibility of various media; importance of various information offerings of the federal government (federal government websites, brochures and leaflets, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, posters, cinema spots, newsletters of the federal government, inserts in newspapers and magazines, personal information at trade fairs or infobus tours, citizen telephone, Twitter messages of the government spokesperson, Facebook presence of the federal government, online advertisements, YouTube channel of the federal government with current videos, Instagram contributions of the Federal Chancellor); frequency of use of the above-mentioned information offerings of the federal government; evaluation of the information offerings of the federal government as a whole; reasons for not liking these information offerings (open); reasons for not using the information offerings of the federal government.

Dealing with fake news: behaviour in case of uncertainty about the reliability of interesting information (e.g. ignoring the information, reading the information more carefully to get an idea, etc.); awareness of the term ´fake news´; definition of fake news (if a news is based on false facts, facts are presented one-sidedly, opinions are expressed which are not based on facts); more frequent unintentional distribution of fake news vs. targeted distribution in order to influence people; self-assessment of fake news detection; assessment of other people regarding fake news detection; measures should be taken vs. no measures should be taken to curb fake news; responsibility for necessary measures to curb fake news (operators of platforms on which fake news is distributed, federal government, EU, others)

Demography: age; sex; German nationality; highest school-leaving qualification; vocational education and training qualification; employment status; current or previous occupational status; marital status; household size; number of persons in the household under 16 years of age; children; party sympathy; economic situation of the household; net household income.

Additionally coded: respondent ID; state; residence Berlin: Former Berlin city district; residence west/east; Nielsen areas; city size; degree of urbanization of the residential area (rural, urban); county/city constituting a district; BIK region type, BIK structure type, city...

Replication files for: Dahlhaus, T. and Gambetti L., Noisy Monetary Policy Announcements, Journal of Applied Econometrics.

MainProg_JAE.m replicates the analysis in Section 3.2-3.5. Specifically, it loads the data, estimates the news and noise shocks and responses, and estimates the responses to Delphic and Odyssean shocks based on noise-free data. Run NoiseNewsShock.m to produce Figures 1,2, and 3. Run InfoShock1.m and InfoShock2.m to produce Figures 4 and 5, respectively. Main_FinancialVars_monthly.m and Main_FinancialVars_HF replicate the analysis of Section 3.6 loading the data and producing the variance decomposition of news and noise shocks for monthly aggregates of financial variables and the high-frequency change of those variables around FOMC dates, respectively. Financial_responses.m produces and plots the responses of financial variables (Figure 6 and Figure 7).

Please refer to: https://data.imf.org/en/news/accessing%20international%20financial%20statistics

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The benchmark interest rate in South Korea was last recorded at 2.50 percent. This dataset provides - South Korea Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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