FOMC Statement Diff, Fed Rate Decisions & Central Bank Events

Keywords: FOMC statement diff, Federal Reserve rate decision, Fed funds target range, SEP dot plot, hawkish dovish tone, ECB BoE calendar, central bank API, macro data for AI agents.

Pull structured central-bank events from official sources — rate decisions, sentence-level FOMC statement diffs, SEP/dot-plot medians, speeches and calendars — ready for quant research, dashboards and AI tools.

Why this Actor

• Fed (full parse): target range low/high, change in bps, sentence-level added / removed / changed diffs, SEP medians (GDP, unemployment, PCE, core PCE, dot-plot fed funds), speeches, minutes, FOMC calendar
• ECB & BoE (metadata): title, link, UTC time, event type; BoE Bank Rate parsed from headlines (no full-text redistribution)
• Market session flags: whether NYSE / LSE were in regular hours at release time
• Official sources only (Fed / ECB / BoE) — not scraped from aggregators

Example input (try this)

{
  "banks": ["FED"],
  "eventTypes": ["rate_decision", "sep", "minutes"],
  "maxItems": 15,
  "includeDiff": true,
  "includeText": true,
  "includeCalendar": true
}

Input fields

Field	Meaning	Default
banks	FED, ECB, BOE	all
eventTypes	rate_decision, minutes, sep, speech, press_conference, mpr, other	all
dateFrom / dateTo	YYYY-MM-DD (UTC)	–
maxItems	newest events first (calendar not counted)	50
includeDiff / includeText / includeCalendar	toggles	true

Sample output (truncated)

{
  "bank": "FED",
  "eventType": "rate_decision",
  "timeUtc": "2026-09-16T18:00:00Z",
  "targetRangeLow": 3.75,
  "targetRangeHigh": 4.0,
  "rateChangeBps": 25,
  "diff": {
    "changed": [{
      "before": "...maintain the target range ... at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent...",
      "after": "...raise the target range ... by 1/4 percentage point to 3-3/4 to 4 percent..."
    }]
  },
  "marketSession": { "nyseOpen": true, "lseOpen": false }
}

Pricing (pay per event)

• Actor start — ~$0.00005
• Central bank event — $0.02 per returned event (primary)
• Statement diff — $0.08 when a FOMC statement diff is produced

Tip: set maxItems low (10–20) for cheap exploratory runs.

Compliance

Official public pages / RSS only; identifying User-Agent; ≥1 s between requests. Fed content is U.S. government work. ECB/BoE rows are metadata + links only. Not affiliated with any central bank. Not investment advice.

Limitations

• tone / toneDelta are transparent keyword heuristics — prefer toneDelta; do not trade on them alone
• Early closes are not modeled in market-session flags

Use cases & scheduling

• FOMC statement diff on meeting day — schedule shortly after each FOMC announcement (2:00 pm ET) with eventTypes: ["rate_decision"] to get the added/removed/changed sentences.
• Fed rate decision tracker — target range low/high and change in bps as clean numbers for dashboards or backtests.
• Central bank calendar — includeCalendar: true returns upcoming Fed meetings; ECB/BoE rows give decision headlines and links.
• Macro context for AI agents / LLM tools — small, structured JSON instead of raw HTML pages.
• Dot plot / SEP medians — eventTypes: ["sep"] for quarterly projections.

Tip: create an Apify Schedule for the Actor or one of the tasks below to turn it into a recurring monitor, and add a webhook/integration to get results in Slack, email or Google Sheets.

Ready-made example tasks

One-click, pre-filled inputs you can run or copy:

• fomc-rate-decision-tracker
• fomc-statement-diff-latest
• ecb-boe-fed-central-bank-calendar

FAQ

Where does the data come from?
Official federalreserve.gov, ecb.europa.eu and bankofengland.co.uk pages/RSS only.

How do I keep costs low?
Set maxItems to 3–15 and disable includeText if you only need numbers and diffs.

Is the hawkish/dovish tone reliable?
It is a transparent keyword heuristic. Use toneDelta as a hint, not a trading signal.

Does it parse ECB/BoE statements in full?
No — ECB/BoE are metadata + links (BoE Bank Rate parsed from headlines).