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Fed Communications: FOMC Statements, Minutes, Speeches

Full text of Federal Reserve communications with exact release timestamps: FOMC statements (rate decision, target range, votes, dissents), FOMC minutes, speeches by Fed governors, congressional testimony and Board press releases.

$1.60 per 1,000 documents

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What it returns

Full text of everything the Federal Reserve Board says in public, with the exact release time, from federalreserve.gov.

FOMC statements**: rate decision (hike / cut / hold), federal funds target range, vote count, voters, dissenters and their stated preference, link to the implementation note. FOMC minutes**: full minutes text, meeting date, PDF link. Speeches**: every speech by the Chair, Vice Chairs and Governors, with speaker, role, venue and video link. Congressional testimony**, **discount rate minutes**, and all other **Board press releases** (enforcement actions, regulatory policy, bank applications), filterable by category. Every record has `datetime` (Eastern, with offset) and `datetimeUtc`, so you can line documents up against market data.

Common uses

Central bank text analysis, hawkish/dovish scoring, event studies around FOMC releases, speech trackers, compliance monitoring of Fed enforcement actions. Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (public domain). Pricing: per document returned.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/federal-reserve-communications/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
typeslist of stringsFOMC statements, FOMC minutes, speeches, congressional testimony, discount rate minutes, other monetary policy releases, and all other Board press releases. Default: ["fomcStatement", "fomcMinutes", "speech", "testimony"].
dateFromstringYYYY-MM-DD. Default: 90 days before the end date.
dateTostringYYYY-MM-DD. Default: today.
speakerslist of stringsOnly speeches and testimony by these officials (name contains), e.g. Waller, Bowman.
keywordstringCase-insensitive match on the title or speaker.
pressCategorieslist of stringsLimits the pressRelease type to these categories. Empty means all.
includeTextbooleanReturn the full document text. FOMC minutes text comes from the minutes page. Default: true.
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/federal-reserve-communications/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"dateFrom": "2026-07-01", "maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $1.60 per 1,000 documents. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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