Economy
The macro indicators that price every asset — what each one measures, how often it prints, and which primary source publishes it. Definitions, not fake live numbers.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Total value of goods and services produced. The broadest measure of economic activity; two consecutive quarters of contraction is the informal definition of recession.
Live 1.17% Euro-area real GDP growth (YoY) · 2026-Q2 · OECD Quarterly National Accounts
OECD (2026), Quarterly National Accounts, https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on 2026-10-13)
Live 2.19% US real GDP growth (YoY) · 2026-Q2 · OECD Quarterly National Accounts
Year on year, not the annualised quarter-on-quarter rate US headlines quote. The two are different numbers for the same quarter: a 0.4% quarter reads as roughly 1.5% annualised. Year on year is shown because it needs no conversion to be compared with anything.
OECD (2026), Quarterly National Accounts, https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on 2026-10-13)
Sources: BEA, Eurostat, national statistics offices, IMF
Consumer Price Inflation (CPI)
Change in the price of a consumption basket. The primary target variable of modern central banking (most target ~2%).
Live 3.4% US CPI inflation (YoY) · 2026-08 · OECD
OECD (2026), US CPI inflation (YoY), https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on 2026-10-13)
Sources: BLS, Eurostat, national statistics offices
Central Bank Policy Rate
The rate at which the central bank lends or remunerates reserves. Sets the floor of the entire yield curve and the price of money economy-wide.
Live 4.35% Australia cash rate · 2026-08-01 · BIS
Live 13.75% Brazil Selic target · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2.25% Canada overnight target rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 0% Swiss National Bank policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 3% China policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2.1% Denmark certificates-of-deposit rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2.65% ECB main refinancing rate · 2026-09-16 · ECB Data Portal
Live 3.75% UK Bank Rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 4% Hong Kong base rate · 2026-08-01 · BIS
Live 5.5% Hungary base rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 3.25% Israel policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 5.25% India repo rate · 2026-06-01 · BIS
Live 1.25% Japan policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2.75% Korea base rate · 2026-07-01 · BIS
Live 6.5% Mexico overnight target rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2.75% Malaysia overnight policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 4.5% Norway policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2.75% New Zealand official cash rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 3.75% Poland reference rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 6.5% Romania policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 4.5% Saudi repo rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 1.75% Sweden policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 1% Thailand policy rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 2% Taiwan discount rate · 2024-03-22 · Central Bank of the Republic of China
The date is when the rate last changed, not when we read it — a policy rate is a level that holds until the bank moves it. Taiwan is outside the World Bank, IMF and OECD statistical systems, so its central bank is the only source for this, and it publishes it as a figure on a web page rather than through a data API.
Live 3.875% US federal funds target (upper bound) · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Live 7.25% South Africa repo rate · 2026-09-01 · BIS
Sources: Federal Reserve, ECB, BoJ, BoE, PBoC
Unemployment Rate
Share of the labor force without work but seeking it. One half of the Fed's dual mandate; a lagging indicator of the cycle.
Live 6.4% Euro-area unemployment rate · 2026-08 · OECD
OECD (2026), Euro-area unemployment rate, https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on 2026-10-13)
Live 4.2% US unemployment rate · 2026-09 · OECD
OECD (2026), US unemployment rate, https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on 2026-10-13)
Sources: BLS, Eurostat, ILO
Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)
Survey of purchasing managers on new orders, output and employment. The most watched leading indicator; above 50 signals expansion.
This card carries no live number, and that is deliberate. PMI is a proprietary survey: ISM and S&P Global both sell it, and neither publishes a free machine-readable feed. Substituting some other activity series and labelling it PMI would be the kind of small untruth this site exists to avoid, so the definition stands on its own until a licensed feed is in place.
Sources: S&P Global, ISM, Caixin
Yield Curve (10Y–2Y spread)
Difference between long and short government yields. Inversion (negative spread) has preceded every modern US recession, with long and variable lags.
Live 5.24% US 10-Year Treasury par yield — the 10-year level, not the 10Y–2Y spread this card defines · 2026-10-09 · US Treasury daily par yield curve
Sources: US Treasury, FRED
M2 Money Supply
Cash, deposits and near-money. Its expansion and contraction frame the liquidity backdrop for asset prices.
Live 3.49% Euro-area M3 growth (YoY) · 2026-08 · ECB Data Portal
Two things this number is not. It is M3, not the M2 this card defines: the euro area's headline aggregate is broader, adding repos, money-market fund shares and short-term debt securities. And it is the ECB's own published growth rate rather than one computed from the stock of money, because the stock moves on revaluations and reclassifications that the published rate strips out.
Live 6.79% Taiwan M2 growth (YoY) · 2026-09-23 · Central Bank of the Republic of China
Sources: Federal Reserve, ECB
Current Account Balance
Trade plus income flows with the rest of the world. Persistent deficits or surpluses drive currency valuations and global capital flows.
Live -3.02 US current account — % of GDP · 2026-Q2 · OECD Balance of Payments
OECD (2026), Balance of Payments (BPM6), https://data-explorer.oecd.org (accessed on 2026-10-13)
Sources: IMF, national central banks
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