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title: "FRED"
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# FRED

[Documentation](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2.md) > [Writing Algorithms](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/writing-algorithms.md) > Datasets > FRED

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The [Research Division of the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis, MO](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/) expands the frontier of economic knowledge by producing high-quality original research in the areas of macroeconomics, money and banking, and applied microeconomics. They contribute to monetary policy discussions by advising the Bank president on a range of topics, especially in preparation for Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. The Research Division is in the top 1% of all economics research departments worldwide.

- [US Federal Reserve (FRED)](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/writing-algorithms/datasets/fred/us-federal-reserve-(fred).md)

## Pages in This Section

- [US Federal Reserve (FRED)](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/writing-algorithms/datasets/fred/us-federal-reserve-(fred).md): US Federal Reserve (FRED) dataset from FRED.