Markets

Rows showing a time are live, or up to 15 minutes behind where marked delayed. Rows showing a date are the official figure for that day, published once a business day (Australia’s once a week).

Sources: U.S. Treasury yields, U.S. Department of the Treasury daily par yield curve. Exchange rates, European Central Bank euro reference rates, crossed through the U.S. dollar. 10-year yields for Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia: Deutsche Bundesbank, Japan Ministry of Finance, Bank of Canada and Reserve Bank of Australia. Bitcoin: Coinbase, with the change over the last 24 hours. Market cap to GDP: Federal Reserve, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1), which counts every publicly traded U.S. company but not funds or foreign companies, against GDP over the past year; published about ten weeks after each quarter, with history back to 1947. Inflation: Bureau of Labor Statistics, the change in the consumer price index (CPI-U) from one year’s average to the next, from 1914. 10-year yield: Federal Reserve (H.15), the year’s average, from 1954. GDP growth: Bureau of Economic Analysis, the change in real GDP, from 1930. Housing value: Federal Reserve (Z.1), owner-occupied homes plus rental housing held by landlords’ partnerships, LLCs and sole proprietors (but not by corporations, such as apartment REITs), land included, at each year’s end and for the latest quarter. Housing units: Census Bureau, Housing Vacancy Survey, from 1965 (2025’s figure covers 11 months, as the October survey was skipped during the shutdown). Median value: Census Bureau, American Community Survey, the median value owners give for their homes, from 2005; there was no standard survey release for 2020. Federal receipts, outlays and surplus or deficit: Office of Management and Budget, Historical Tables (Table 1.2), as a share of GDP for each fiscal year (to September 30 since 1977, June 30 before), from 1930; a year OMB hasn’t published yet is worked out from Treasury’s Monthly Treasury Statement and BEA’s GDP until it does. Total public debt: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny for the latest day and Historical Debt Outstanding for each fiscal year’s end. Everything else: CNBC. Not investment advice, obviously.