Datastream macroeconomic analysis
Datastream
Identify trends, generate and test hypotheses, and develop viewpoints and research. Loaded with 120 years of information, Datastream is the world’s most comprehensive financial time series database.
Why choose Datastream?
The foundations for building your own macroeconomic analysis, creating market scenarios and testing investment strategies should be deep and rock-solid.
Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 35 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 8.5 million active economic indicators. It features 120 years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles and the impact of world events.
Unique content includes I/B/E/S Estimates aggregates, Worldscope Fundamentals, point-in-time data and Reuters Polls.
Data spans bond indices, bonds, commodities, convertibles, credit default swaps, derivatives, economics, energy, equities, equity indices, ESG, estimates, exchange rates, fixed income, funds, fundamentals, interest rates and investment trusts.
Datastream can be accessed as a data feed, via an API or integrated into Eikon, with a Microsoft Office add-in for dynamic updates. APIs for Matlab and Eviews are also available for back-testing.
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120+years of historical data
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9,000pre-built charts
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175countries covered
Features & benefits
What you get with Datastream
Build and test investment strategies with 120 years of data and 35m+ instruments or indicators across all major asset classes.
Includes I/B/E/S Estimate Aggregates, Worldscope Fundamentals, point-in-time data, and Reuters Polls.
Explore relationships between different asset types with a library of fully customisable analytical functions.
Automatically update your reports, tables, charts and presentations using the Datastream add-in for Microsoft Office.
Access Datastream through industry standard programming languages via APIs using Python or R. Or access content from Matlab and EViews.
Back-test, build and validate your models with economic and company fundamentals data as originally reported and as it evolved.
Product in action
See Datastream in action
Develop macroeconomic insights and accurate forecasting
Compare revised economic data from 1st release and polling forecasts
Articulate what market events mean for your forecasts or investment strategy. Enhance your reports with pre-built charts from leading economists with insights into countries, regions and trends.
Create insightful charts
Illustrate your research with insightful charts (data as of September 2018)
Create sophisticated charts to better present your insights using charting features such as correlation, slicing, recession bands, interactive annotations and more.
Update your reports rapidly and accurately
Update your Excel tables with the latest data at the click of a button
Create and refresh charts in PowerPoint presentations, Excel and Word documents with one click.
Easily compare economies in your research
Visually compare economies with standardised data sets
Standardised versions of 51 key indicators across 130 countries. Originally published by national sources, data is adjusted to equivalent statistical form and released on the day of the relevant event. (Image illustrates Datastream in Eikon.)
Datastream Data Loader (DDL)
Datastream Data Loader (DDL) offers fast, flexible, bulk delivery of our premium content. It covers:
- All Datastream markets worldwide
- Over 360 million time series
- And over 17,000 different fields.
DDL allows you to customise the data you need from our full-range of Datastream content and retrieve it when the latest updated data becomes available or at a scheduled time of your choice.
This simple, yet powerful FTP-based solution is the most flexible, easy-to-implement and cost-effective method of delivering large amounts of referential data.
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