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Clear explanations of macro indicators, market mechanics, and research methods.
A buyer-guide comparison of YCharts and FXMacroData for FX traders, quant developers, and research teams choosing between an advisor research platform with a large economic library and a self-serve API of timestamped official macro releases.
A buyer-guide comparison of yfinance (the unofficial Yahoo Finance Python library) and FXMacroData for FX traders and developers deciding between free price scraping and a licensed, official-source FX macro data API.
How Bank Negara Malaysia sets the Overnight Policy Rate without a numerical inflation target, how to read the stance from government bond yields and money supply, and what moves the ringgit.
How the Central Bank of Nigeria uses the Monetary Policy Rate, the cash reserve ratio and its external reserves, how the 2022 to 2026 rate cycle unfolded, and what it means for the naira.
How Taiwan's central bank sets the discount rate at quarterly meetings, why its tightening cycle was one of the smallest in the world, and how reserves and export flows shape the Taiwan dollar.
How the Central Reserve Bank of Peru combines a 1% to 3% inflation target with active foreign exchange intervention and large reserves, and how to read the sol through bond yields and the reserve position.
How the Bank of Israel sets its interest rate against a 1% to 3% inflation target, how the 2022 to 2026 cycle unfolded, and why the shekel matters as much as the rate.
How the Bank of Thailand runs flexible inflation targeting with a 1% to 3% target, how the policy rate moved from 2.50% to 1.00%, and what drives the baht beyond interest rates.
How the Magyar Nemzeti Bank sets the base rate against a 3% inflation target, what the 2022 emergency tightening and the long easing since tell you, and how policy reaches the forint.
How the People's Bank of China sets policy through the 7-day reverse repo rate, the Loan Prime Rate, reserve requirements and the daily yuan fixing, and what those signals mean for CNY.
A model nowcast, a forecaster survey, an options-implied probability and a central bank's own projection are four different objects, and only two of the seven forecast classes are a genuine consensus. Here is what each prediction_class means, which US releases have no consensus from any publisher, and how to check before you build.
Semiconductor sales can support the Korean won through export income and dollar conversion, but capital flows, exporter behavior, rates and the broad dollar decide whether USD/KRW actually falls.
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