| Series | ID | Where it stands | In hand through | Next published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 daily close ↗ Yahoo Finance ^GSPC ↗ · FRED SP500 ↗ · Every trading day, 4:00 PM ET | ^GSPC | 7,376.86^GSPC · index points | Nov 6, 2026 | Nov 9, 2026 |
| Federal funds target range, upper limit ↗ FRED DFEDTARU ↗ · At each FOMC decision, 2:00 PM ET | DFEDTARU | 4.00%DFEDTARU | Nov 6, 2026 | Nov 7, 2026 |
| Search week: Google searches for "unemployment" ↗ Google Trends "unemployment" ↗ · Daily | Google Trends "unemployment" | 68Google Trends · index, 0-100 over the past 90 days, the last complete day | Nov 5, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| Commercial paper and three-month bill rates ↗ | DCPF1M, DCPN30, WTB3MS | 3.94%DCPF1M · last printed Oct 20, 2026 3.95%DCPN30 4.02%WTB3MS | Nov 4, 2026 | Nov 9, 2026 |
| Initial claims, continued claims, insured unemployment rate ↗ Department of Labor, weekly claims release (data.pdf) ↗ · ALFRED ICSA ↗ · ALFRED CCSA ↗ · ALFRED IURSA ↗ · Weekly, Thursday 8:30 AM ET | ICSA, CCSA, IURSA | 189,000ICSA · claims, seasonally adjusted 1,718,000CCSA · claims, seasonally adjusted, week ending Oct 24, 2026 1.1%IURSA · seasonally adjusted, week ending Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 31, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Initial claims ↗ | ICSA | 189,000 claims, seasonally adjusted | Oct 31, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Weekly Economic Index (Lewis, Mertens and Stock), 13-week mean ↗ FRED WEI ↗ · Weekly, Thursday · line 0.0 off since Mar 11, 2021 | WEI | 3.03 13-week mean of the index (scaled to four-quarter GDP growth, percent), line 0; the latest week 3.47 | Oct 31, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| State insured unemployment rates ↗ FRED release 469, State Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report ↗ · Weekly, Thursday | ETA 539 state insured rates | 9.8%ETA 539 · share of states with the insured rate 0.20 point over its 52-week low | Oct 24, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Insured unemployment rate ↗ | IURSA | 1.1% seasonally adjusted | Oct 24, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Insured unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted (52-week change of the 26-week average) ↗ FRED CCNSA ↗ · FRED COVEMP ↗ · line 0.2 off since Dec 16, 2023 | CCNSA / COVEMP | -0.111 pp, 52-week change of the 26-week average of CCNSA/COVEMP | Oct 24, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| States with the insured rate accelerating (13-week average at least 0.20 point above a year earlier) ↗ off since Apr 10, 2021 | ETA 539 by state | 0 states of 51 whose 13-week average insured rate is >= 0.20 pp above a year earlier | Oct 24, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Unemployment rate, factory hours, nondurable employment ↗ | UNRATE, AWHMAN, NDMANEMP, PAYEMS | 4.1%UNRATE · seasonally adjusted 41.8AWHMAN · hours per week, seasonally adjusted 4,753NDMANEMP · thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted 159,293PAYEMS · thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted | Oct 2026 | Dec 4, 2026 |
| Housing starts and building permits ↗ ALFRED HOUST ↗ · ALFRED PERMIT ↗ · Monthly, 8:30 AM ET | HOUST, PERMIT | 1,221HOUST · thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate, Sep 2026 1,398PERMIT · thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate, Sep 2026 | Oct 2026 | Nov 18, 2026 |
| GDPNow ↗ ALFRED GDPNOW ↗ · Several times a month | GDPNOW | 3.44GDPNOW · percent change from the prior quarter, seasonally adjusted annual rate | 2026:Q4 | Nov 9, 2026 |
| Sahm rule, real time ↗ FRED SAHMREALTIME ↗ · Monthly | SAHMREALTIME | 0.00SAHMREALTIME · percentage points | Oct 2026 | Dec 4, 2026 |
| Unemployment rate ↗ | UNRATE | 4.1% seasonally adjusted | Oct 2026 | Dec 4, 2026 |
| Nonfarm payrolls ↗ | PAYEMS | 159.3 million persons, seasonally adjusted | Oct 2026 | Dec 4, 2026 |
| Michaillat and Saez's rule: the smaller of the unemployment indicator and the vacancy indicator ↗ ALFRED UNRATE ↗ · ALFRED JTSJOL ↗ · line 0.29 off since Apr 3, 2026 | UNRATE, JTSJOL | 0.0 points: the smaller of the unemployment indicator (Sahm form, first prints) and the vacancy indicator (12-month high of the 3-month mean vacancy rate over its value), line 0.29 | Oct 2026 | Dec 4, 2026 |
| Job openings ↗ ALFRED JTSJOL ↗ · ALFRED CLF16OV ↗ · Monthly, 10:00 AM ET | JTSJOL, CLF16OV | 7,523JTSJOL · thousands of openings, seasonally adjusted 170,683CLF16OV · thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted, Oct 2026 | Sep 2026 | Dec 1, 2026 |
| Industrial production, as published ↗ ALFRED INDPRO ↗ · Monthly, 9:15 AM ET | INDPRO | 103.9506INDPRO · index, 2017=100, seasonally adjusted | Sep 2026 | Nov 17, 2026 |
| State continued weeks claimed, ETA 539 ↗ | ETA 539 | 0%ETA 539 · share of states with the insured-rate proxy 0.45 point over its twelve-month low, Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 | Nov 21, 2026 |
| State unemployment rates, all 51 ↗ FRED release 112, State Employment and Unemployment ↗ · Monthly, 10:00 AM ET | LAUS state rates (51) | 12%LAUS state rates (51) · share of the 51 states whose own Sahm gap on first prints stands at or above 0.70, Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 | Nov 20, 2026 |
| Job openings ↗ | JTSJOL | 7.5 million openings, seasonally adjusted | Sep 2026 | Dec 1, 2026 |
| Quits rate ↗ | JTSQUR | 2.1% seasonally adjusted | Sep 2026 | Dec 1, 2026 |
| CPI inflation ↗ | CPIAUCSL | 3.7% year over year | Sep 2026 | Nov 10, 2026 |
| Chicago Fed National Activity Index, three-month average ↗ FRED CFNAIMA3 ↗ · line -0.7 off since Jul 1, 2020 | CFNAIMA3 | 0.03 CFNAI three-month average | Sep 2026 | Nov 23, 2026 |
| Real GDP ↗ FRED GDPC1 ↗ · Quarterly, 8:30 AM ET | GDPC1 | 24,611.1GDPC1 · billions of chained 2017 dollars, seasonally adjusted annual rate | 2026:Q3 | Nov 25, 2026 |