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Economics

FactSet’s Economics section provides a macro-focused workspace for tracking economic events, country and regional conditions, cross-country comparisons, consensus and broker-level economic estimates, and policy rates. It ties FactSet’s large standardized economics database and economic-events feeds into calendars, tables, and comparison tools suitable for macro and cross-asset research.

Economics section of FactSet provides the following data:

  • Calendar — An economic-event calendar that lists upcoming and past releases across countries and regions, including indicator name, release date and time, importance level, period reference, actual result, consensus forecast, surprise, and prior value.
  • Country/Region — Country and regional synopsis pages that summarize macro indicators, key economic trends, and standardized data series for each economy.
  • Comparison — Tools that compare standardized economic indicators across multiple countries or regions, allowing users to view relative performance or levels for metrics such as growth, inflation, employment, and trade.
  • Estimates — Economic estimates coverage, including broker-level and consensus economic forecasts for key indicators, with histories of forecast changes and statistics such as mean, median, high, and low.
  • Policy Rates — Data on central-bank policy rates and related benchmark rates across economies, including current levels, historical paths, and in some cases market-implied expectations.