This dataset contains the text from Federal Reserve FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting minutes and statements, collected by scraping the Federal Reserve's website. The data spans a specific period of time, providing insights into the central bank's monetary policy decisions and discussions.

Content

The dataset consists of the following columns:

• Date: The date of the FOMC meeting or statement release in the format YYYYMMDD.
• Type: Indicator for the type of document. 0 represents a statement, while 1 represents meeting minutes.
• Text: The text content of each paragraph in the meeting minutes or statements.

Acknowledgements

The data is collected from the official Federal Reserve website (https://www.federalreserve.gov) using a custom Python scraper built with BeautifulSoup.

Inspiration

This dataset can be used for various purposes, such as:

1. Analyzing the sentiment and tone of FOMC meeting minutes and statements over time.
2. Identifying key phrases and words that indicate changes in monetary policy.
3. Developing natural language processing models to predict future policy decisions based on historical data.
4. Investigating the relationship between FOMC meeting minutes/statements and financial market reactions.

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FOMC Meeting Minutes Dataset (Year 1993+, updated following each release)

Overview

This dataset contains the detailed minutes of the meetings held by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from 1993 onwards. The FOMC, a key component of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, is responsible for setting national monetary policy. The minutes provide a comprehensive record of the committee's discussions, including reviews of economic and financial conditions, deliberations on policy options, the range of participants' views, the rationale behind policy decisions, and the specific votes cast by each member. They offer significantly more detail than the policy statements released immediately after the meetings.

Background on Meeting Minutes

The minutes of each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee provide a timely summary of significant policy issues addressed by meeting participants. The minutes record all decisions taken by the Committee with respect to these policy issues and explain the reasoning behind these decisions. From their emergence in their present form in February 1993 until December 2004, the minutes were published approximately three days after the Committee's subsequent meeting. In December 2004, the Committee decided to expedite the release of its minutes. Since then, the minutes have been made available to the public three weeks after the date of the policy decision, thus reducing the lag in their release by an average of about three weeks. The minutes are subsequently published in the Board's Annual Report.

Data Description

Each row in the dataset represents the minutes from a specific FOMC meeting. The dataset includes the following fields:

• Date: The last day of the FOMC meeting.
• Text: The full, official text of the meeting minutes, often including lists of attendees, summaries of staff reports, detailed accounts of committee discussions, policy directives, and voting records (including dissents).
• Chair: The Chair of the Federal Reserve who presided over the meeting documented in the minutes.

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This dataset contains the textual data of Federal Reserve FOMC meetings statements and minutes.

Column description

• Date - Date of the FOMC meeting.
• Release Date - Release date of the statement/minutes. Note that minutes are usually released with a ~3 week lag from the meeting date.
• Type - Communication type, either a statement or minutes.
• Text - The text content of each communication release.

Update schedule

This dataset is updated on a weekly basis with new data sourced from the Federal Reserve website.

FOMC Meeting Statements & Minutes

This repository automatically scrapes and aggregates the Federal Reserve FOMC meeting statements and minutes - creating a dataset that enables tracking US monetary policy changes through time. It works by polling the website of the U.S. Federal Reserve on a periodic basis and scraping the new statements and minutes as they become available. The scraper runs in a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow, which is available here. The dataset begins in the… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/vtasca/fomc-statements-minutes.

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The dataset analyzed contains information on the economic conditions in the United States on a monthly basis since 1954, including the federal funds rate, which represents the percentage at which financial institutions trade reserves held at the Federal Reserve with each other in the interbank market overnight. This rate is determined by the market but is directly influenced by the Federal Reserve through open market operations to reach the established target. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets eight times a year to determine the federal funds rate target, which has been defined within a range with upper and lower limits since December 2008.

Furthermore, real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is calculated based on the seasonally adjusted quarterly rate of change in the economy, using chained 2009 dollars as a reference. The unemployment rate represents the seasonally adjusted percentage of the labor force that is unemployed. Meanwhile, the inflation rate is determined by the monthly change in the Consumer Price Index, excluding food and energy prices for a more stable analysis of core inflation.

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The analysis of this data helps to understand how economic growth, the unemployment rate, and inflation influence the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions. Additionally, it allows for a study of the evolution of interest rate policies over time and raises the question of how predictable the Fed’s future decisions may be. Based on observed trends, it is possible to speculate whether the target range set in March 2017 will be maintained, lowered, or increased, considering the prevailing economic context and the challenges faced in conducting U.S. monetary policy.

Federal Reserve FOMC Statements and Minutes

Automatically scraped FOMC meeting statements and minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

  Dataset Structure

Field Type Description

Date timestamp FOMC meeting date

Release Date timestamp Publication date

Type string "Statement" or "Minute"

Text string Full text content

  Source

Data scraped from Federal Reserve FOMC Calendar

  License

CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain)… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nomnomshark41/fed-fomc-communications.

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