Date stringdate 2000-02-02 00:00:00 2026-04-29 00:00:00 | Release Date stringdate 2000-02-02 00:00:00 2026-05-20 00:00:00 ⌀ | Type stringclasses 2
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2026-04-29 | 2026-05-20 | Minute | Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
April 28â29, 2026
A joint meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was held in t... |
2026-04-29 | 2026-04-29 | Statement | Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have remained low, on average, and the unemployment rate has been little changed in recent months. Inflation is elevated, in part reflecting the recent increase in global energy prices.
The Committee seeks to achieve maximum... |
2026-03-18 | 2026-03-18 | Statement | Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have remained low, and the unemployment rate has been little changed in recent months. Inflation remains somewhat elevated.
The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the... |
2026-03-18 | 2026-04-08 | Minute | Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
March 17â18, 2026
A joint meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was held in t... |
2026-01-28 | 2026-01-28 | Statement | Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have remained low, and the unemployment rate has shown some signs of stabilization. Inflation remains somewhat elevated.
The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the lo... |
2026-01-28 | 2026-02-18 | Minute | Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
January 27â28, 2026
A joint meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was held i... |
2025-12-10 | 2025-12-10 | Statement | Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Job gains have slowed this year, and the unemployment rate has edged up through September. More recent indicators are consistent with these developments. Inflation has moved up since earlier in the year and remains somewhat eleva... |
2025-12-10 | 2025-12-30 | Minute | Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
December 9â10, 2025
A joint meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System was held in... |
2025-10-29 | 2025-10-29 | Statement | Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Job gains have slowed this year, and the unemployment rate has edged up but remained low through August; more recent indicators are consistent with these developments. Inflation has moved up since earlier in the year and remains ... |
2025-10-29 | 2025-11-19 | Minute | "Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee\n \n (...TRUNCATED) |
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 year 2000 and the textual data is presented as it is found on the website of the Federal Reserve.
Usage
The updated dataset is located in this repository at communications.csv. If found, new data is added on a weekly basis on Monday mornings.
Data 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.
Availability
This dataset is also available on Kaggle, together with related Jupyter notebooks.
Future meetings
The full calendar of FOMC meetings is available on the Federal Reserve website, from where future meeting dates can be extracted.
Related research
Monetary policy decisions shown in the FOMC meeting statements have been analyzed at length in academic research and found to have immediate effects on the volatility and direction of equity index prices[^1] and interest rates[^2]. [^1]: Rosa, C. (2011). Words that shake traders: The stock market's reaction to central bank communication in real time. Journal of Empirical Finance, 18(5), 915-934. [^2]: Gürkaynak, R. S., Sack, B., & Swanson, E. (2005). The sensitivity of long-term interest rates to economic news: Evidence and implications for macroeconomic models. American economic review, 95(1), 425-436.
Background information
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets eight times during the year to make decisions regarding the implementation of monetary policy, with the aim of achieving the Federal Reserve's dual mandate: promoting maximum employment and maintaining stable prices (controlling inflation).
The FOMC meeting statement document is one of the main formal communication documents used by the Fed, and contains information about key interest rate decisions, an assessment of the economic outlook, a view on inflation as well as forward guidance. This information helps businesses, investors and the general public take monetary policy into account and make more informed economic decisions.
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