About FRED Watch

Economic data should feel as easy to follow as a personal update feed.

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Official data, personal rhythm

FRED Watch turns trusted economic series into a simple watchlist you can check at a glance.

Instead of reopening source pages one by one, you choose the indicators you care about and see them together in update order. Payrolls, inflation, GDP, rates, housing, credit, and other public series can sit in one focused view.

New to FRED?

FRED is a public library for economic data.

FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data, is a widely used database maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It collects economic and financial time series from official and public sources, including employment, prices, output, interest rates, money, banking, and housing data. If you already use FRED, you can skip this background and think of FRED Watch as a personal layer on top of the series you already follow.

What FRED Watch is trying to become

FRED Watch is a lightweight companion for people who want to keep coming back to the same economic indicators. It remembers your subscribed data series, lets you personalize each chart's title, unit, and range, and presents everything on one page with the most recently updated series first.

Remember what you follow

Save a personal list of FRED series instead of rebuilding the same set of charts each visit.

Shape each chart

Choose a readable title, display range, and unit style for each subscribed series.

See what changed recently

Review subscribed series in update order so fresh economic releases rise toward the top.

Independence and data handling

FRED Watch is not affiliated with FRED or the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It is an independent interface for viewing public FRED data.

The app presents the original FRED observations without editorial changes. Apart from page styling and your own display choices, such as chart title, unit, and range, the data comes through from FRED as source data.