VOL. XCIV, NO. 247
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The official portal of the European Central Bank, including its Data Portal. Provides free access to monetary policy information, publications, and structured datasets. Data is available through a public SDMX 2.1 REST API with CSV and SDMX-JSON formats, bulk downloads, and chart-level exports. Key scheduled releases include €STR at 08:00 CET, FX reference rates around 16:00 CET, and daily euro area yield curves at 12:00 CET.
Key features
- Public SDMX 2.1 REST API with access to the ECB Data Portal (data-api.ecb.europa.eu). Existing SDW endpoints continue to work with unchanged syntax.
- Flexible format support including SDMX-ML, SDMX-JSON, CSV, and pivot-table-optimized CSV. Supports HTTP compression for efficient transfers.
- Excel integration via Power Query using CSV endpoints or the application/vnd.ecb.data+csv MIME type.
- Bulk dataset downloads available directly from dataset pages, including CSV and SDMX 2.1 exports.
- €STR (Euro Short-Term Rate) published daily at 08:00 CET, with revisions at 09:00 CET if errors exceed 2 basis points.
- Euro foreign exchange reference rates updated around 16:00 CET on working days, provided for information purposes.
- Euro area yield curves published every TARGET business day at 12:00 CET.
- Official calendars of Governing Council monetary policy meetings and press conferences.
- RSS feeds for press releases, speeches, publications, exchange rates, and more.
- Charts across the portal can be downloaded as images (PNG), PowerPoint, PDF, or exported as CSV/XLS/SDMX data.
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