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Markets

FactSet’s Markets section provides a cross-asset view of global market activity, combining live and historical pricing, rates, futures, flows, estimates, and market-monitoring tools in one workspace. It is designed to help users track broad market conditions across equities, fixed income, commodities, ETFs, and foreign exchange, with both overview dashboards and asset-specific drill-downs.

Markets section of FactSet provides the following data:

  • Overviews — FactSet brings together high-level market dashboards that summarize cross-asset performance, major benchmarks, interest-rate expectations, new issuance activity, and region-specific risk developments.
  • Markets Overview — A global snapshot of major equity indices, commodities, rates, and other headline market indicators, showing current levels, changes, and recent trend context across regions.
  • Performance Comparison — Side-by-side comparison of asset-class, index, sector, country, or regional performance over selected time periods, helping users identify relative winners and losers.
  • Policy Rate Tracker — Tracks central-bank policy settings and market-implied expectations for future rate moves using policy rates, short-term interest-rate instruments, and probability-style rate scenarios.
  • Capital Market New Issues — Covers newly issued securities in capital markets, including equity and debt deals, with details such as issuer, size, pricing, structure, and issuance timing.
  • Ukraine & Russia Monitor — A themed market monitor focused on the financial impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, combining affected asset prices, regional risk indicators, commodities, and related market developments.
  • Middle East Risk Monitor — A regional monitor for geopolitical risk in the Middle East, bringing together energy-sensitive assets, regional markets, and macro-sensitive indicators that may react to disruptions.

  • US Monitor — A United States-focused market dashboard summarizing key equity, rates, macro, and cross-asset indicators relevant to U.S. market conditions.

  • Equities — FactSet provides equity-market monitoring tools built on global exchange and index data, including headline benchmarks, derivatives, trading-session views, and stock-level momentum screens.

  • Indices — Tracks major global and regional equity indices with current values, returns, breadth measures, and historical comparisons.
  • Index Movers — Highlights the stocks contributing most positively or negatively to index performance, helping explain which names are driving benchmark moves.
  • Futures — Provides prices and change data for equity index futures, supporting views on market direction, hedging, and overnight sentiment.
  • Pre & Post Market — Focuses on trading activity outside regular exchange hours, showing early price moves, gaps, and after-hours reactions.
  • Market Movers — Screens for stocks with the largest gains, losses, volume spikes, or unusual trading activity across selected markets.
  • 52 Week Highs — Identifies securities trading at or near their highest level over the past year, often used for momentum and breakout analysis.

  • 52 Week Lows — Identifies securities trading at or near their lowest level over the past year, useful for weakness, distress, or reversal screening.

  • Fixed Income — FactSet’s fixed-income tools combine sovereign, municipal, corporate, mortgage, loan, and derivatives data with curve and spread analytics for rate and credit markets.

  • Yield Curve Analysis — Shows the shape of government or benchmark yield curves across maturities and compares current curves with prior periods to analyze steepening, flattening, and inversion.
  • Government Yields — Provides sovereign yield levels across countries and maturities, often including changes, spreads, and curve comparisons.
  • Municipal Yields — Covers tax-exempt municipal bond yields and related benchmarks, supporting valuation and relative-value analysis within the muni market.
  • CDS & Ratings — Combines credit default swap spreads with agency or market-based credit ratings to assess issuer credit risk and changes in perceived default risk.
  • Corporate Benchmarks — Displays benchmark corporate bond yields, spreads, and reference curves used to value credit instruments across rating buckets and maturities.
  • US MBS Market — Focuses on the U.S. mortgage-backed securities market, including agency mortgage benchmarks, spreads, yields, and related rate sensitivity measures.
  • Futures — Covers interest-rate and bond futures used for duration management, rate expectations, and macro hedging.
  • Lending Rates — Tracks short-term lending and reference rates such as interbank benchmarks and secured overnight financing rates across currencies.
  • Leveraged Loans — Provides data on below-investment-grade syndicated loans, including pricing, spreads, issuance, and benchmark-level monitoring.

  • Interest Rate Swaps — Covers swap rates, swap curves, and spread relationships used in fixed-income valuation, hedging, and interest-rate strategy.

  • Commodities — FactSet offers commodity-market views spanning spot prices, futures curves, analyst expectations, and positioning data across energy, metals, and agricultural products.

  • Spots — Tracks current spot prices for key commodities, providing the cash-market reference for major energy, metal, and agricultural products.
  • Futures — Provides exchange-traded commodity futures prices and changes across maturities, supporting curve analysis and forward-looking pricing.
  • Estimates — Aggregates market or analyst expectations for commodity prices and related outlook measures over future periods.

  • Commitments of Traders — Uses positioning data to show how different trader groups are positioned in commodity futures markets, helping gauge speculative and commercial sentiment.

  • ETFs — FactSet provides ETF monitoring across listed products, combining pricing, classification, holdings-aware analytics, and investor activity measures.

  • Fund Flow — Tracks net inflows and outflows into ETFs by fund, asset class, sector, and time period, helping users see where investor demand is moving.

  • FX — FactSet’s FX tools monitor currency markets using spot rates, historical time series, derivatives, and consensus expectations.

  • Spots — Displays current foreign-exchange spot rates and day-over-day moves for major and emerging-market currency pairs.
  • Historical — Provides historical FX series for return analysis, volatility studies, and long-run currency comparisons.
  • Futures — Covers currency futures pricing and changes, supporting hedging and market-expectation analysis.
  • Estimates — Aggregates consensus or analyst FX forecasts across time horizons for major currency pairs.