Source:
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Release:
Survey of Business Uncertainty
Units:
Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:
Monthly
Notes:
This series was discontinued by the source following revisions to the methodology and panel design for the Survey of Business Uncertainty. For more details, see the revised methodology.
This index reflects firms' uncertainty about the growth of their own capital expenditures over the next 12 months. The index can respond to news about the overall economy, changes in business sentiment, policy developments, stock market moves, interest rate changes, and changes in the outlook of firms in the sample. The uncertainty index captures uncertainty about the outlook for sample firms.
For more details about the index or the survey, visit the Survey of Business Uncertainty.
Suggested Citation:
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta,
Business Uncertainty: Capital Investment Rate Index (DISCONTINUED) [ATLSBUIRUI],
retrieved from FRED,
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis;
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATLSBUIRUI,
January 20, 2021.