• for the previous month
  • https://get.ycharts.com/resources/blog/monthly-market-wrap/ - latest month
• for months before the previous month
  • https://get.ycharts.com/resources/blog/monthly-market-wrap-march-2024/
  • https://get.ycharts.com/resources/blog/monthly-market-wrap-april-2024/
  • https://get.ycharts.com/resources/blog/monthly-market-wrap-may-2024/

• https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/calendar
  • +1 - Their calendar covers speeches from important people like President Biden etc.,
  • On Wed 2023-05-17, the market went up from 4123 (prev day close) to 4169 (today's close). The jump is attributed to “President Biden Speech on Debt Ceiling”. This calendar showed that event.
    • https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-051723/card/stocks-climb-after-biden-speaks-on-debt-ceiling-0AVkvEjgloggFe93B8ns - Stocks Climb After Biden Speaks on Debt Ceiling

• United States 30-Year Mortgage Rate (tradingeconomics.com)

tags | aum history of money market funds

• https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MMMFFAQ027S shows the level of total financial assets in in money market funds over time.
  • For example, asof Q3 2023, \$6.1 trillion is in money market funds.
  • Data is updated quarterly.

• https://github.com/maread99/market_prices - market_prices
  • Is this better than yfinance?
  • How is it different from yfinance?
• https://github.com/gerrymanoim/exchange_calendars - exchange_calendars
  • {asof | 2024-07-14} Fork of https://github.com/quantopian/trading_calendars, which is no longer maintained.
  • referenced in https://github.com/maread99/market_prices
• https://github.com/rsheftel/pandas_market_calendars - trading_calendars
  • Was mentioned in https://github.com/quantopian/trading_calendars

• “Consumer spending” is same as “personal consumption expenditures (PCE)”
• I found three data sources for this:
  • https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96 - Real Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCEC96)
    • real = inflation-adjusted
    • published monthly
  • https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)
    • published monthly
  • https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-spending
    • published every quarter
    • Is there a way to recon this with BLS or FRED data?
    • data is not matching with either https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96 or https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE
• Is consumer spending same as consumer discretionary spending? What is the difference?

• https://maps.semcog.org/EconomicDashboard/chart/bc_per_cons.html
  • Tells that https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96 is what we should look at.
  • Consumer spending is broken into three categories
    • durable goods
      • have an average useful life of at least 3 years (e.g. motor vehicles)
    • nondurable goods
      • have an average useful life of less than 3 years (e.g. food)
    • services
      • commodities that cannot be stored or inventoried and are consumed at the time of purchase (e.g., dining out)

See also:

• https://maps.semcog.org/EconomicDashboard/ → chart on the bottom left