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FOMC statement and ECB policy decision changes
What changed in each FOMC statement and each ECB monetary policy decisions release, compared word by word with the one before it, with a link to every text as published.
The FOMC statement of October 28, 2026 changed 23.0% of its words from the September 16, 2026 statement: 56 words added, 14 removed. The ECB's monetary policy decisions release of October 29, 2026 changed 36.8% of its words from the September 10, 2026 release: 103 words added, 226 removed.
Kresmion compares each FOMC statement with the previous FOMC statement, and each ECB monetary policy decisions release with the previous release, word by word, once, when the text is stored: the share of words changed is one minus twice the words kept over the words of both texts, and the counts are the words removed from the earlier text and the words added in the later one. The texts themselves are shown as published on each record page.
- FOMC statement changes since 2020
56 statements, January 29, 2020 to October 28, 2026
- ECB monetary policy decision changes since 2020
55 releases, January 23, 2020 to October 29, 2026