Federal Reserve Economic Data

Equity Market Volatility: Infectious Disease Tracker (INFECTDISEMVTRACK)

Observation:

Jul 2024: 6.46300 (+ more)   Updated: Aug 6, 2024 8:01 AM CDT
Jul 2024:  6.46300  
Jun 2024:  6.70650  
May 2024:  4.05437  
Apr 2024:  4.86487  
Mar 2024:  3.59603  
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Units:

Index,
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Monthly

NOTES

Source: Baker, Scott R.

Source: Bloom, Nick

Source: Davis, Stephen J.

Release: Economic Policy Uncertainty  

Units:  Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Notes:

Assessing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is essential for policymakers, but challenging because the crisis has unfolded with extreme speed. We identify three indicators: stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic uncertainty, and subjective uncertainty in business expectation surveys that provide real-time forward-looking uncertainty measures. We use these indicators to document and quantify the enormous increase in economic uncertainty in the past several weeks.

For more information, see Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2020), 'COVID-INDUCED ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY'

Suggested Citation:

Baker, Scott R., Bloom, Nick and Davis, Stephen J., Equity Market Volatility: Infectious Disease Tracker [INFECTDISEMVTRACK], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INFECTDISEMVTRACK, .

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