Robert H. Rasche Executive VP and Senior Policy Adviser Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis November 6, 2009 The views expressed are not official positions of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis or the Federal Reserve System.

 Four Basic Services from research.stlouisfed.org  FRED  FREDgraph  GeoFRED  FRED User Accounts  New Features  Customizing Graphs  New Graph types  Customizing Maps  New Map features

 Provides you with automated data services  You can create, download as Excel workbooks, and maintain datasets of multiple series.  Data can be stored as “frozen”  Data can be stored and automatically updated  You can create and maintain FREDgraphs  You can create and maintain GeoFRED Maps

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Multiple Edit Tabs

 Save a sequence of Maps to.pdf file