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The Chicago Fed's National Financial Conditions Index (NFCI) provides a comprehensive weekly update on U.S. financial conditions in money markets, debt and equity markets and the traditional and "shadow" banking systems. Positive values of the NFCI indicate financial conditions that are tighter than average, while negative values indicate financial conditions that are looser than average.

For further information, please visit the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/publications/nfci/index.cfm).

Context

This is a dataset from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago hosted by the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED). FRED has a data platform found here and they update their information according to the frequency that the data updates. Explore the Chicago Fed using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the Chicago Fed organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

• Observation Start: 1971-01-08

• Observation End : 2020-03-13

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using FRED's API and Kaggle's API.

The license for this dataset is unknown. Please reach out directly to the Chicago Fed for more information on Commercial/Non-Commercial access.

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