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Macro

Macro section of LSEG provides the following data:

  • Countries & Regions — LSEG compiles macro‑financial profiles for each country and region, combining economic indicators (growth, inflation, trade, labour, fiscal, external balances) with market data (equity indices, FX, bond yields, ratings, and sometimes ESG or climate indicators).
  • Economic Monitor — This pulls together high‑frequency “now” data, such as PMIs, confidence surveys, industrial production, unemployment, inflation releases, and surprise indices, into near‑real‑time dashboards for major economies, with historical time‑series behind each indicator.
  • Datastream Chartbook — A pre‑built library of Datastream macro time‑series charts based on LSEG’s economic database: long histories of GDP, inflation, rates, yields, FX, and selected structural variables, typically organized by theme or country and directly backed by Datastream series.
  • Key Economic Indicators — A curated subset of “headline” data (e.g., GDP growth, CPI, PPI, unemployment, retail sales, trade balance, industrial production) for each country, with release calendars, historical observations, and often consensus‑forecast fields.
  • Economic Indicator — The underlying indicator‑level database: each macro series (e.g., German CPI YoY, US Non‑farm Payrolls) with its full history, units, transformations (levels, growth, index), and metadata on source agency and release conventions.
  • Interest Rate Probabilities — LSEG converts interest‑rate futures, OIS curves, and options data into implied probabilities of central‑bank rate moves for upcoming meetings, providing term structures of policy‑rate expectations and derived probabilities of hikes, cuts, or holds.
  • Macro Explorer — A configurable explorer over LSEG’s macro database that lets you drill into topic families (growth, inflation, labour, sectoral output, trade, housing, credit, fiscal), pull long time‑series, and compare indicators across countries with consistent classifications.
  • Macro Monitor — More cross‑country comparative than Economic Monitor: multi‑country scorecards and heatmaps of key indicators (growth, inflation, external balances, credit, policy stance) plus rankings and trend signals that highlight macro strengths, vulnerabilities, and turning points.
  • Macro Vitals — A focused set of risk‑relevant macro “vital signs”, such as debt ratios, current‑account balances, FX reserve coverage, credit growth, and market‑based stress indicators, designed to support macro‑risk and sovereign‑risk monitoring.
  • FX Polls — Survey‑based FX forecast data: consensus expectations for major and emerging‑market currency pairs at different horizons, along with dispersion measures (high/low, number of contributors) from LSEG’s polling of market participants and analysts.
  • Economic Indicator Polls — Consensus macro‑forecast polls for key releases (e.g., next CPI print, payrolls, GDP releases), including median, mean, high, low, and sometimes error statistics, collected from banks and research houses and matched to the corresponding actual indicators.
  • Central Bank Polls — Forward‑looking policy‑rate and central‑bank decision forecasts from surveyed economists/strategists, including expected policy path, probability distributions or scenario splits where available, and commentary on policy direction.
  • Money Market & Bond Yield Polls — Poll‑based expectations for money‑market rates and government bond yields (e.g., 3‑month, 2‑year, 10‑year) at specific future dates, capturing consensus views on the rate cycle, yield curves, and term premia.
  • Long Term Economic Outlook — Structured long‑horizon projections for real growth, inflation, demographics, productivity, and sometimes fiscal/debt paths at the country level, combining surveyed forecasts, model‑based projections, and scenario analysis over multi‑year horizons.
  • Commodities Polls — Survey‑based price and balance forecasts for key commodities (oil, gas, metals, agriculturals), including expected spot prices at future horizons, supply/demand views, and risk scenarios, sourced from commodity analysts and market participants.