US Dollar (USD) Data Coverage: Indicators, Sources and Release Times

The US dollar is the deepest part of the FXMacroData catalogue and the only currency on the free tier. This guide lists the 78 USD series the production catalogue serves, groups them by what they measure, names the official publisher behind each group, gives release times in New York time and UTC, and walks through a real September 2026 jobs-report row that anyone can fetch without an API key.

Quick answer

What is covered

78 USD series: the federal funds target range and the New York Fed reference rates, the full Treasury curve and real yields, CPI, PCE and PPI, payrolls and the rest of the jobs report, GDP, retail sales, housing, trade, money, the Fed balance sheet and dollar indexes.

Free access

USD is on the Always Free tier: no key, 100 requests a day, and announcements delayed 15 minutes after release. A paid key removes the delay and unlocks the other 21 currencies.

Why it matters

The dollar is on one side of most FX trades, so US CPI, payrolls and Fed decisions reprice EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD and almost every other major pair at once.

Takeaway: For USD, the question is rarely whether a series exists; it is which of several related series the market is actually trading on the day.

Who Publishes US Data

US macro data come from a spread of federal agencies, and FXMacroData sources each series from the agency that publishes it:

• Federal Reserve Board: FOMC decisions on the federal funds target range, money supply (H.6), the Fed balance sheet (H.4.1), industrial production (G.17) and the nominal dollar indexes (H.10).
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York: SOFR and its averages and index, the effective federal funds rate, OBFR, TGCR and BGCR, plus the Survey of Consumer Expectations used for the consumer confidence proxy.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): CPI, PPI, import prices, productivity, the Employment Situation report and JOLTS.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): GDP, PCE inflation and the current account.
• Census Bureau: retail sales, durable goods, housing starts and permits, the goods and services trade balance and the Business Trends and Outlook Survey.
• US Treasury: daily par and real yield curves, breakevens, federal debt and gold and FX reserve holdings. Others include the Department of Labor (jobless claims), the EIA (crude and natural gas), FHFA (house prices), the CBO (NAIRU) and the BIS (trade-weighted index).

Each row stores the reference period as date and the publication moment as announcement_datetime. Paid users typically receive a release within seconds of official publication (see release speed); free users see the same row 15 minutes later.

USD Indicators Covered

Policy and money-market rates

• Federal funds target range: the upper bound, with the lower bound and the midpoint as separate series. Every FOMC decision is recorded, holds included.
• SOFR, effective fed funds, OBFR, TGCR and BGCR: daily New York Fed reference rates that show where overnight funding actually prints inside the target range. 30-day, 90-day and 180-day SOFR averages and the SOFR index support term-rate and carry calculations.

Treasury yields

• Nominal par yields from 1 month through 2 years, 10 years and 30 years: 14 daily tenors from the Treasury's par yield curve. The 2-year tracks expected Fed policy and drives rate-differential models for EUR/USD and USD/JPY.
• 10-year TIPS yield, real yields at 5, 7, 20 and 30 years, and the 10-year breakeven: real rates are often the cleaner driver of the dollar and gold than nominal yields.

Inflation

• CPI and core CPI: the first and most market-moving monthly inflation print.
• PCE and core PCE: the Fed's preferred inflation gauges, released later in the month by the BEA.
• PPI and import prices: pipeline price pressure, useful for anticipating CPI components.

Labour market

• Nonfarm payrolls (level, with a monthly-change series), unemployment rate, average hourly earnings and wages, participation, household employment, and full-time and part-time employment: the Employment Situation report, the single biggest scheduled USD event most months.
• Initial jobless claims (weekly), JOLTS job openings and CBO NAIRU: a high-frequency read on layoffs, labour demand, and the benchmark for how tight the market is. Quarterly nonfarm productivity is also served.

Growth, activity and housing

• GDP (real, with nominal and annualised-growth variants) and Q4-on-Q4 growth: the quarterly scorecard.
• Retail sales with ex-autos, ex-autos-and-gas and control-group variants; industrial production; durable goods orders: monthly consumption and investment signals.
• Housing starts, building permits and the FHFA house price index: the rate-sensitive sector that responds first to Fed policy.
• Business confidence and consumer confidence proxies from official Census and New York Fed surveys.

External, money, balance sheet and the dollar

• Trade balance (monthly) and current account (quarterly).
• M1, M2, the Fed's total assets (weekly) and federal debt: liquidity and the size of quantitative tightening or easing.
• FX reserves and gold reserves, the BIS trade-weighted index, and the Fed's broad, advanced-economy and emerging-market dollar indexes.
• EIA weekly crude oil inventories and natural gas storage, for oil-linked FX such as USD/CAD and USD/NOK.

USD Release Timing

Most US data are released at 08:30 or 10:00 Eastern Time. The US moves to daylight saving time in March and back in November, so 08:30 ET is 12:30 UTC in summer (EDT) and 13:30 UTC in winter (EST).

The release calendar shows upcoming dates and converts every event to your own time zone.

Worked Example: The September 2026 Jobs Report

The Employment Situation for September 2026 put the unemployment rate at 4.2 per cent, up from 4.1 per cent in August. Because USD is on the free tier, this request works without a key (the row appears 15 minutes after release):

curl "https://api.fxmacrodata.com/v1/announcements/usd/unemployment?start_date=2026-09-01"

The latest row returned (abridged to the fields used here):

{
  "currency": "USD",
  "indicator": "unemployment",
  "data": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-30",
      "val": 4.2,
      "previous_value": 4.1,
      "previous_date": "2026-08-31",
      "announcement_datetime": 1790944200,
      "announcement_datetime_local": "2026-10-02T08:30:00-04:00"
    }
  ]
}

The epoch 1790944200 is 12:30 UTC on 2 October 2026, which is 08:30 local time (America/New_York) on 2 October 2026.

With a paid key, send the same request with the header X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY to receive the row without the delay. The same release also carried the nonfarm payrolls level (159,044,000), average hourly earnings growth of 3.0 per cent year on year and a participation rate of 61.8 per cent, all stamped with the same announcement time, so a script can compare every headline in the report against EUR/USD at the identical second.

How Traders Use USD Data

1. CPI and payrolls against the 2-year. The 2-year Treasury yield is the market's running estimate of the fed funds path. Measuring how far it moves in the minutes after CPI or payrolls separates prints that change the policy outlook from noise.
2. Funding versus target. Comparing SOFR and the effective fed funds rate with the target range shows whether money-market conditions are tightening ahead of, or regardless of, FOMC decisions.
3. Real yields and the dollar. The 10-year TIPS yield and breakevens split a nominal yield move into real rates and inflation compensation. Rising real yields have tended to be the more dollar-positive mix.
4. Rate differentials. Pair the Treasury curve with foreign curves in the catalogue to build EUR/USD, USD/JPY or AUD/USD differential models; the EUR/USD dashboard plots this alongside price.
5. Release-time backtests. Because announcement_datetime records the publication second, a backtest can test the first 5, 15 or 60 minutes after each release rather than relying on daily closes.

Related Pages

• Federal Reserve guide for the FOMC framework and decision schedule.
• United States indicator hub for every USD series with charts and API documentation.
• EUR/USD dashboard for price, differentials and release markers.
• Release calendar for upcoming US events in your time zone.
• Data coverage for all 22 currencies.