dailytreasuryrates 0.1.4

Daily Treasury Rates Downloader

Daily Treasury Rates Downloader

A simple command line tool for downloading or updating daily treasury rates.

Installation

To install run:

> pip install dailytreasuryrates

Usage

To create or update the file rates.csv with the latest treasury rate, run the following command:

> dailytreasuryrates rates.csv

This will look for the rates.csv file in the current folder and append any new data that is available for downloaded on the US treasury site. You can also specify a fully qualitied path like C:\dataset\myrates.csv if you want to maintain the rates files at a specific location.

A common usage for the rates-file it to load it into Python with Pandas for processing:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('rates.csv', parse_dates=["Date"]).set_index("Date")

Output format

The output file is a csv file.

Date,1 Mo,2 Mo,3 Mo,4 Mo,6 Mo,1 Yr,2 Yr,3 Yr,5 Yr,7 Yr,10 Yr,20 Yr,30 Yr
1990-01-02,,,7.83,,7.89,7.81,7.87,7.9,7.87,7.98,7.94,,8.0
1990-01-03,,,7.89,,7.94,7.85,7.94,7.96,7.92,8.04,7.99,,8.04
...
2023-03-06,4.75,4.79,4.93,5.02,5.22,5.05,4.89,4.61,4.27,4.16,3.98,4.14,3.92
2023-03-07,4.8,4.88,5.04,5.12,5.32,5.22,5.0,4.66,4.31,4.17,3.97,4.11,3.88

The first columns contains the date in yyyy-mm-dd format.

Dates are sorted in ascending order.

Over time new tenors were added. E.g. in 1990 there was no 1 Month and 2 Month tennor, but now there is. These missing values have empty string in the csv file.