Skip to main content
Macro by MarkMacro by Mark
  • Home
  • News
  • Calendar
  • Indicators
  • Macro
  • About
Sign inSign up
Sign up
Macro by Mark

Global economic data, empirical models, and macro theory
All in one workspace

Public data from government agencies and multilateral statistical releases, anchored in official sources.

© 2026 Mark Jayson Nation

Product

  • Home
  • Indicators
  • News
  • Calendar
  • Pricing

Macro

  • Overview
  • World
  • Models
  • Labs
  • Glossary

Learn

  • Concepts
  • Schools
  • Policy
  • History
  • Simulators

Account

  • Create account
  • Sign in
  • Free Trial
  • Help
  • Trust and security

Contact

  • Feedback
  • Customer Support
  • FAQ
  • Buy me a coffee
AboutDocsPrivacy PolicyTerms of ServiceEthics and ComplianceEditorial process
Indicators/Topics/GDP/Investment/United States

United States

Investment expenditure

Gross capital formation and investment spending.

IndicatorsGrowthFixed Investment
World BankBEAFRED
Frequencyquarterly · +1Transformlevel

Source: FRED · FPIC1

Stored official data

Fixed Investment in United States was 4.5K on January 1, 2026, higher by 67.1 (+1.5%) from the prior observation. Charted from quarterly observations in bil. of chn. 2017 $.

Latest$4.47K
QoQ+1.52%
YoY+3.21%
10Y Avg$3.88K
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026
Model surprise-38.52

Timeframe

Value transform

Version overlay

Chart appearance

Overlays & outputNBER bandsAuto Y
Axis & export

Fixed Investment time series chart. Showing observations from 2007 01-01 to 2026 01-01. Latest value 4.5K.

Min$2.17K
Mean$3.3K
Max$4.47K
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026

Source evidence

Tier 1 - criticalU.S. macro backbone via St. Louis Fed; revision/vintage capable.Action: deepen nowExpected coverage: 800,000 series.
Source noteProvider health
SourceFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
FRED
Native keyProvider-native identifier used to reconcile this country/provider series.
FPIC1
FreshnessDisplayed as stored official data.The provider-backed series is outside its expected freshness window, so this view should be refreshed before production use.Fetched: May 26, 2026.Latest observation flag: Preliminary.
Stored · 2026-01-01
HistoryPoint-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.Vintage history is derived from FRED ALFRED's realtime_start/realtime_end query parameters.
Source-native vintage
ReuseCommercial use: dataset specific.Redistribution: review required.Do not treat FRED as an automatically reusable commercial-display source. Prefer direct BEA, BLS, Census, FRB, Treasury, and EIA feeds where possible.Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FPIC1). Accessed 2026-05-26. Underlying-source rights may differ.
Dataset exceptions

Research notes

82 · Acceptable
ComparabilityAggregator is not the statistical authority: Use the source agency, source code, and methodology link when citing or reconciling with official releases.Real, nominal, and chain measures are not interchangeable: Use real growth for cycle analysis, nominal levels for revenue/size questions, and PPP or per-capita variants for welfare comparisons.
2 notes
QualitySource authority: 82/100. Aggregator source: useful access layer, but official methodology remains with the originating agency.Methodology completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, and revision fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 90/100. 77 observations available; latest observation 2026-01-01; platform fetch 2026-05-26T09:45:37.669Z; release status none; data status liveRevision and vintage depth: 100/100. Point-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.
4/6 strong
CitationFixed Investment (FRED (St. Louis Fed): FPIC1, United States, retrieved May 26, 2026)
Retrieved May 26, 2026

Continue browsing

Browse all Growth indicatorsAdjacent concepts across providers and countries.View United States macro coverageEvery curated indicator for this country.View FRED catalogFilter the discovery catalog by this provider.
Series details, provenance, and revision toolsMetadata, release notes, revision history, and related series.

Series details

SourceFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
CategoryGrowth
FrequencyQuarterly
UnitBil. of Chn. 2017 $
Latest observationJanuary 1, 2026
Platform last fetchMay 26, 2026
Transformslevel, yoy, annualized
About this series

Real Private Fixed Investment

Related measures

Adjacent and similar concepts available for United States.

NominalRealYoY growthQoQ growthGDP per capitaReal per capitaDeflatorAgriculture
Open country pivot

The reading right now

As of January 2026, Investment expenditure for United States stood at 4.5K. That is up 67.1 from the prior quarter. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 4.2K, ranging from a low of 3.9K in January 2021 to a high of 4.5K in January 2026. The current reading sits 604.7 above its trailing ten-year mean of 3.9K.

Computed from the observation series on this page. Numbers update when the underlying provider revises the data.