Go to Federal Reserve Board Economic Research and Data. Use FRED -- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

For ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data -- Go to ALFRED -- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Refer to release dates and retrieve vintage versions of data that were available on specific dates in history.

Use Bloomberg, available on select computers in the Business Library.

• Type FOMC and hit for information from the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve.
  • The Federal Funds Rate is the rate banks charge each other for the use of overnight loans of their federal reserve balances.
  • The Discount Rate is the interest rate charged to banks to borrow short-term funds from a Federal Reserve bank.