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Every data source on the platform, the licence it is published under and the attribution we give
Global Macro Expert shows only data whose owners allow public, free reuse, or reuse with attribution. Each series on the platform names its source; this page lists the licence behind each source.
Sources and licences
| Source | Used for | Licence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Central Bank | FX reference rates; policy and money market rates; euro area yield curve and EU 10Y yields; Eurosystem projection assumptions (Outlook) | ECB reuse policy: free reuse with the source acknowledged | Terms |
| FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Access route for US rates and Treasury yields, EIA spot prices, BLS/BTS freight indexes and IMF breakevens | FRED terms of use; the underlying series used here are public domain or IMF data (attribution) | Terms |
| U.S. Energy Information Administration | Crude oil and product spot prices, weekly inventories, international production, Short-Term Energy Outlook (Outlook) | Public domain, with attribution | Terms |
| World Bank | Pink Sheet monthly commodity prices and indices; Commodity Markets Outlook forecasts; World Development Indicators | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| International Monetary Fund | World Economic Outlook, Primary Commodity Prices, Regional Economic Outlook breakevens, trade statistics (IMTS), PortWatch | IMF copyright and usage terms: reuse with attribution | Terms |
| Bank for International Settlements | Locational banking statistics, global liquidity indicators (Capital flows) | BIS terms of use: reuse with the source acknowledged | Terms |
| U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Commitments of Traders (Positioning, oil positioning) | Public domain | Terms |
| Ember | European daily wholesale electricity prices | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), data from Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de | Hourly day-ahead electricity prices by bidding zone (zones licensed CC BY 4.0 only) | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) | Australian electricity prices | AEMO copyright permissions, with attribution | Terms |
| ENTSO-E and ENTSOG | TYNDP 2024 scenarios | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Global Supply Chain Pressure Index | Free use with attribution (New York Fed terms of use) | Terms |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Dallas Fed Energy Survey breakevens | Reproduction permitted with attribution | Terms |
| U.S. Geological Survey | Mine production and reserves of metals and critical minerals, including lithium, cobalt and graphite (Resource map) | Public domain | Terms |
| Natural Earth | Country outlines for the maps | Public domain | Terms |
| European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin | Retail prices: petrol, diesel, heating oil and LPG by EU country | Reproduction authorised provided the source is acknowledged | Source |
| OECD, Taxing Wages | Labour costs: gross to net for OECD members | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| ILOSTAT (International Labour Organization) | Labour costs: hourly earnings by occupation | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| Eurostat: energy prices, HICP, net earnings, labour cost levels, minimum wages | Retail prices and labour costs | CC BY 4.0 | Terms |
| ECB and World Bank exchange rates | Conversion of national currencies to euro | ECB: free reuse with attribution; World Bank: CC BY 4.0 | Method |
| Official releases of 27 central banks, statistics offices, international organisations and regulators | Intelligence · News: archive and search of official announcements | Full text only where the source allows republication: public domain (Federal Reserve, BLS, BEA, EIA, SEC, CFTC), open licences (Eurostat and European Commission CC BY 4.0, ONS Open Government Licence, RBA, Bundesnetzagentur CC BY-ND 3.0 DE, reproduced verbatim) or reuse with attribution (ECB, Riksbank, Norges Bank, Bank of Canada, Destatis, ACER, ESMA, EBA, EIOPA). Bank of England, Bank of Japan, SNB, BIS, ENTSO-E, FCA and FMA: title, date and link only | News |
| Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Daily News Sentiment Index (Intelligence · News) | Published research data, used with the citation the Bank asks for (Shapiro, Sudhof and Wilson, FRBSF Working Paper 2017-01) | Source |
| Baker, Bloom and Davis (policyuncertainty.com), via FRED | Economic policy and equity market uncertainty indices, US and global | Free to use with citation | Source |
| Federal Reserve, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, BEA, BLS schedules | Economic calendar (dates and times of decisions and releases, linked to the source) | Dates are facts; each entry links to the institution's own schedule | Calendar |
| Inter typeface (Rasmus Andersson) | Text on the site and on share-preview images | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | Terms |
Not shown, and why
Exchange prices and private price assessments are licensed for a fee. We do not show them unless we hold a licence.
| Data owner | Data | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| CME Group (CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX) | Futures prices including end-of-day settlements | Public display requires a CME licence and fees |
| ICE (ICE Futures Europe and U.S., ICE Endex) | Brent, Gasoil and TTF futures; ICE wholesale power hubs republished by the EIA | Public display requires an ICE licence; the EIA republishes ICE hub prices with permission, so they are not shown here |
| EEX and EPEX SPOT | Power and gas futures; exchange data for zones without an open licence | EEX Media Usage licence and EPEX external-usage licence; Spanish hourly prices are licensed for private use only and are not shown |
| LME, Euronext, Argus, S&P Global Platts | Metals, MATIF grains, Urals and other price assessments | Paid licences |
| Baltic Exchange, Drewry, Freightos, SSE (SCFI) | Dry bulk and container freight indices | Paid licences |
| bp Energy Outlook | Scenarios to 2050 | No reuse licence published; not used |
| Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy | Proved oil, gas and coal reserves | Free to access, but no open reuse licence is published; not shown |
Questions about a source or a licence: use the feedback form. Calculated values (for example crack spreads, positioning indices or chart aggregates) are Global Macro Expert calculations from the sources above.