Federal Reserve monetary policy press releases

At a glance

Publisher

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · homepage

Category

Banking & financial statistics

Jurisdiction

United States (federal)

Publisher updates

Around each FOMC meeting and with other announcements; monitor hourly

SourceFinch checks

Hourly by default

Records per run

15 in the latest run

Record key

url

Acquired from

Publisher's public API: https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/press_monetary.xml

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 12, 2026

Verified since

October 12, 2026

Last green run

October 12, 2026

What the data contains

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System publishes its monetary policy press releases (Federal Open Market Committee statements after each meeting, FOMC minutes three weeks later, the Summary of Economic Projections, minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings and other monetary policy announcements) on federalreserve.gov and as an RSS feed of the 15 most recent releases. This source reads the feed hourly and makes one record per release, keyed by its link, with the headline, category and publication time. A monitor reports each new release within the hour, for example an FOMC statement at 2:00 p.m. Eastern on decision days. Release pages are not fetched. Headlines describe policy actions and documents, not individuals (speeches and testimony are separate feeds and are not read). A release leaving the 15-item window is not a withdrawal. SourceFinch is independent of the Federal Reserve.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field url identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 15 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 12, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20261007a.htm",
    "title": "Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026",
    "category": "Monetary Policy",
    "published": "Wed, 7 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT",
    "description": "Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, September 15-16, 2026"
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260916a.htm",
    "title": "Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement",
    "category": "Monetary Policy",
    "published": "Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT",
    "description": "Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement"
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260916b.htm",
    "title": "Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting",
    "category": "Monetary Policy",
    "published": "Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT",
    "description": "Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting"
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260825a.htm",
    "title": "Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026",
    "category": "Monetary Policy",
    "published": "Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT",
    "description": "Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026"
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260819a.htm",
    "title": "Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026",
    "category": "Monetary Policy",
    "published": "Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT",
    "description": "Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026"
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash 4da6e4dda2a0338bcb159ebfeabd695341f14ca255469a48ec90002655711a45.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is 7740477db59c3a6c80713688bbf8ba087023f739d357cf329c28f05bd0a8f058, timestamped October 12, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

The Federal Reserve Board's website policies state that, unless otherwise indicated, information on the Board's website is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed without permission, citing the Board as the source; material identified as belonging to a non-Board source, and the Board's seals and logos, are excluded. www.federalreserve.gov serves no robots.txt (HTTP 404), which RFC 9309 treats as allowing access. The feeds begin with a UTF-8 byte-order mark, which the worker records as a decoding step.

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. SourceFinch is independent of and not endorsed by the Federal Reserve.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

1

Green

100%

Failed

0

Median run time

1.2 s

Latest run

success, October 12, 2026

Measured on completed runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized, within a rolling 30-day window. First successful observation: October 12, 2026. A new recipe has only the history collected since that date; this is not a 30-day uptime guarantee.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "schema": "sourcefinch/source@1",
  "name": "Federal Reserve monetary policy press releases",
  "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/press_monetary.xml",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "item",
    "fields": {
      "url": "guid",
      "title": "title",
      "category": "category",
      "published": "pubDate",
      "description": "description"
    },
    "required": [
      "url",
      "title"
    ]
  },
  "schedule": "hourly",
  "key_field": "url"
}

{
  "name": "Federal Reserve monetary policy press releases",
  "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/press_monetary.xml",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "item",
    "fields": {
      "url": "guid",
      "title": "title",
      "category": "category",
      "published": "pubDate",
      "description": "description"
    },
    "required": [
      "url",
      "title"
    ]
  },
  "key_field": "url",
  "schedule": "hourly",
  "rights": true,
  "catalog": {
    "slug": "federal-reserve-monetary-policy-press-releases",
    "version_id": "906100be-c70a-45c2-adbd-71891973375c"
  }
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/federal-reserve-monetary-policy-press-releases -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get federal-reserve-monetary-policy-press-releases --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@sourcefinch/sdk";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("federal-reserve-monetary-policy-press-releases");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  catalog: { slug: entry.slug, version_id: entry.recipe.version_id },
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor Federal Reserve monetary policy press releases: get_catalog_source federal-reserve-monetary-policy-press-releases,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default hourly schedule this source uses about 720 runs a month. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

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