Alphatour: Navigating Global Financial Data with Alphacast

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Alphacast has become a crucial tool for those seeking up-to-date and high-quality information on global economy, market fluctuations and financial trends, as it provides easy and fast access to a wide variety of large-scale data sources, allowing for precise and comprehensive analysis and metrics.

Acces to financial data is of vital importance, due to this we offer a wide variety of repositories with valuable information that will be essential when our users perform analysis and metrics on various topics and sectors of economies located throughout the world.

Below, you will find a list of the most reputable sources for international data.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental organization composed of 38 member countries, which primary aim is to promote economic well-being and international trade. The OECD is also responsable for collecting, analyzing and publishing information and statistics on a wide range of environmental, economic, and social worldwide issues.

• Financial & Monetary datasets: Finance, Monetary & Financial, Balance of Payments & International Trade

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FED) is the central bank of the United States. FRED also operates as a significant economic and financial research center, consolidating data from over 100 sources, such as economic indicators and financial data for analysis, forecasting, and policy formulation purposes.

You can now access all that data directly into Alphacast, using Alphacast pipelines. Just select the "Fetch FRED data" option and to load data into Alphacast you need to know the series code, which is a unique identifier assigned to each series. You can find these series codes in two places on the FRED website: in the URL or next to its names. Include as many series as you like, separating them by a comma

Otherwise, we have included some popular datasets in Alphacast to use:

• Monetary datasets available: Assets & Liabilities of Financial System & Interest Rates
• Metrics of the market: Exchange Rates, Dollar Real Index, & Foreign Exchange Rates

The World Bank is a multinational organization whose primary goal is to promote economic development and reduce poverty by providing financing or loans and technical assistance to emerging countries. This organization publishes a wide range of economic and social data, which are available for free.

• Markets: Commodities Prices, Terms of Trade & Stock Market,
• Monetary: Domestic Credit to Private Sector, Total Reserves, Real Effective Exchange Rate, & Nominal Effective Exchange Rate

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) is a global financial marketplace for trading futures and options on a variety of financial and commodity products. Real-time and historical data on futures and options contract prices traded on its exchange is published by CME.

• Future contracts datasets: Grains & Oilseed Prices- All Positions & Grains & Oilseed Prices- First Position

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization created to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange rate stability and orderly exchange arrangements, and also provides resources to help countries to address balance of payments difficulties. The informtion which is published by IMF icludes exchange rates, international trade, balance of payments, government finance, monetary and financial stability, among others.

• View monetary indicators such as International Reserves, SDR Currency Basket & Commodity Prices

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international organization that serves as a forum for central banks to coordinate their actions, conducts research on monetary and economic policy issues and provides a platform for central banks to share information and best practices.

• Monetary data points: Policy Rates, Real Policy Rates, Nominal Exchange Rate & Effective Exchange Rate
• Monetary by economic status: Monetary Policy Stance of Developed Economies & Monetary Policy Stance of Developing Economies

Yahoo Finance is a platform that provides its users with a wide range of financial information and tools for a multitude of countries worldwide. This includes real-time stock quotes, historical pricing data, financial news, investment analysis, and portfolio management features, among others

With Alphacast's pipelines, you can fetch information from Yahoo Finance in a matter of seconds. Simply use the "Fetch Yahoo Finance Data" option and select as many tickers as you would like, such as "NQ=F, AAPL, MSFT."

Top-5 Central Bank's Balance Sheet

If your goal is being up-to-date about relevant monetary events around the world, Alphacast offers you the perfect solution. Our Global Central Banks Dashboard provides a comprehensive and contemporary view of monetary policies implemented by major central banks, which includes Assets, Liabilities & Policy Rates.

• The People's Bank of China: Assets-Selected Items, Liabilities- Selected Items & Balance Sheet

• The Bank of England: Assets-Selected Items, Liabilities- Selected Items & Balance Sheet

• The Bank of Japan: Assets-Selected Items, Liabilities- Selected Items & Balance Sheet

• The European Central Bank: Assets-Selected Items, Liabilities- Selected Items & Balance Sheet

• The Federal Reserve: Assets-Selected Items, Liabilities & Balance Sheet

LATAM Central Banks Data at Your Fingertips

Every single of them are the entity responsible for issuing and regulating the country's currency and managing its monetary policy. Additionally, these institutions publish a variety of reports and data related to the economy, including inflation rates, foreign exchange rates, and balance of payment statistics

In Alphacast we collect information from numerous Central Banks across Latin America, here are the main ones:

Banco de México (BANXICO) is the Central Bank of Mexico.

Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) is the Central Bank of Argentina.

Banco Central de Chile (BCCh) is the Central Bank of Chile.

The Central Bank of Ecuador(BCE) is the Central Bank of Ecuador.

Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) is the Central Bank of Brazil.

The Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP) is the Central Bank of Paraguay.

Banco de la República de Colombia (BANREP) is the Central Bank of Colombia.

Banco Central de Bolivia (BCB) is the Central Bank of Bolivia.

Banco Central del Uruguay (BCU) is the Central Bank of Uruguay.

Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (BCRP) is the Central Bank of Perú.

Banco Central de Costa Rica is the Central Bank of Cost Rica.

Have you explored our datasets related to Central Banks? Here is a full list of them.