Economic data

Economic data

Economic data is plentiful and widely available on free platforms such as OECD, World Bank, IMF, Eurostat, ONS, Central Banks, the ECB, ILO, the EU Commission, the UN, FAO, leading and second tier Universities, etc. Private vendors of economic data include well-known brands such as Refinitiv, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Bloomberg, Markit, Oxford Economics, Dun & Bradstreet, S& P Global and many others. Economic data covers national accounts, regional accounts, balance of payments, trade balance, current account, foreign reserves, international trade, government accounts, business and consumer surveys, industry and services (industrial production, wholesale and retail trade, turnover in services etc), FDIs, foreign exchange rates, FX markets, ETF markets, securities markets, crypto currency exchanges, inflation, budget balance, money creation, interest rates, yield curves, savings, investment (also referred to as gross capital formation), consumption, household lending, government debt, private debt, house prices, wages, consumer prices, asset prices, credit markets, labour markets, indexes (time series), social expenditure, Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), etc. 
What takes time is the analysis and presentation of relevant economic data. This is why many companies purchase data or reports from vendors rather than spend the money on time-consuming in-house analysis by economists.

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Keywords: economic data, data vendor, OECD, World Bank, IMF, Eurostat, ONS, Central Banks, the ECB, the EU Commission, the UN, FAO, ILO, current account, budget balance, trade balance, industrial production, services trade, foreign reserves, international trade, government accounts, business and consumer surveys, FDIs, foreign exchange rates, FX markets, ETF markets, asset prices, securities markets, crypto currency exchanges, inflation, budget balance, money creation, interest rates, yield curves, savings, investment, gross capital formation, consumption, household lending, government debt, private debt, house prices, wages, consumer prices, credit markets, labour markets, Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), indexes, time series, price series