macroeconomics
Retrieve macroeconomic indicators by country, such as GDP, inflation, trade balance, and exchange rates. Analyze growth, confidence, and crisis signals to support economic research.
Instructions
Macroeconomic indicators by country (GDP, real GDP, CPI, PPI, inflation rate, trade balance, imports, exports, investment, consumption, business/consumer confidence, house prices, rent prices, exchange rates, real effective exchange rate, money supply, household savings rate, household debt-to-income ratio, output gap, real interest rate, misery index, banking/currency/sovereign debt crisis indicators, commercial real estate prices, commodity forward curves). Requires countries='United States' — use comma-separated values for multiple countries. Do NOT use tickers= for this tool. Supports start_date/end_date and quarterly=true. Supports rolling=N (moving-average smoothing) and trailing=N (trailing N-period sum, e.g. a trailing-4-quarter sum) on the raw series. get_consumer_price_index accepts oecd_source=true for monthly/quarterly OECD data instead of the default annual GMDB source. get_commodity_forward_curve requires a commodity= argument instead of countries= (e.g. 'Crude Oil', 'Gold') and returns dated futures contracts, not a country series. Also includes six US-only, FRED-backed indicators (get_retail_sales, get_industrial_production_index, get_housing_starts, get_real_personal_income, get_recession_indicator, get_commercial_real_estate_prices) — these require a free FRED API key (optional; get one at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html) and only return a 'United States' column regardless of the countries= argument. Every rate and ratio this tool returns i
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lag | No | Number of periods to lag when computing growth rates. | |
| growth | No | Return period-over-period growth rates instead of absolute values. | |
| period | No | Observation frequency, e.g. 'monthly', 'quarterly', or 'annual'. | |
| measure | No | Sub-measure selector, e.g. 'M1', 'M2', or 'M3' for money supply. | |
| rolling | No | Rolling window size in number of periods. When set, the metric is computed over a smoothly overlapping trailing window across the full history (e.g. period='monthly' and rolling=6 gives a rolling 6-month value) instead of one value per period, or (for economics indicators) a simple moving average used to smooth the raw series. | |
| end_date | No | End of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD format. | 2026-10-02 |
| trailing | No | Trailing window size in number of periods. Sums the raw values over the trailing N periods (e.g. trailing=4 on quarterly data gives a trailing-4-quarter / TTM-style sum) instead of returning one value per period. | |
| commodity | No | Value for commodity. Leave unset to use the default of the indicator you selected. Required by: get_commodity_forward_curve. | |
| contracts | No | Value for contracts. | |
| countries | No | Comma-separated country names, e.g. 'United States,Germany,Japan'. | |
| indicator | Yes | Name of the specific metric to calculate, e.g. 'get_asset_turnover_ratio'. Required — omitting it returns the list of available indicators. | |
| quarterly | No | Return quarterly data instead of annual when True. | |
| rate_type | No | Value for rate_type. | long_term |
| start_date | No | Start of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD format. | 2021-10-03 |
| gmdb_source | No | Use the Global Macro Database as the data source when True, rather than the OECD. The two are independent providers with different country and period coverage; both return rates and ratios as decimal fractions. | |
| oecd_source | No | Value for oecd_source. | |
| standardize | No | Return the Z-Score (standard score) instead of the raw values, i.e. how many standard deviations each value is from the mean of its own series. When combined with growth=True, the growth values are standardized instead of the raw values. | |
| show_columns | No | Comma-separated names to filter the output. For historical data use the key names visible in any response record (e.g. 'Close,Volume,Return'). For financial statements use the 'metric' field values from the response (e.g. 'Revenue,Net Income,EBITDA'). Call the tool once without this parameter to see all available names, then repeat with show_columns to reduce response size and token usage. | |
| inflation_adjusted | No | Adjust nominal values for inflation when True. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |