The macro that moves your stocks — US, global, and where the IMF sees it going
US series from the Federal Reserve, the whole-world view from the World Bank, and forward-looking IMF forecasts — all from free official sources, beside our own house indicators computed from filings nobody else publishes free.
// us macro // rates, inflation, jobs, energySource: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
cpi (all items, index)
334.13as of 2026-08-01
unemployment rate
4.20%as of 2026-09-01
fed funds rate
3.75%as of 2026-09-01
10-year treasury yield
5.22%as of 2026-10-08
2-year treasury yield
4.75%as of 2026-10-08
10y minus 2y spread
0.44%as of 2026-10-09
30-year mortgage rate
7.40%as of 2026-10-08
initial jobless claims
197,000as of 2026-10-03
vix
15.41as of 2026-10-08
wti crude oil
$96.24as of 2026-10-06
gdp (nominal, $b)
32,563as of 2026-04-01
nonfarm payrolls (thousands)
159,044as of 2026-09-01
// global // the whole-world viewSource: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0)
world gdp growth
2.92%as of 2025
world inflation (cpi)
3.04%as of 2025
world unemployment
4.79%as of 2025
world trade (% of gdp)
68.49%as of 2025
// forecasts // where the IMF sees it goingSource: IMF World Economic Outlook
us gdp growth
1.80%as of 2031 · 2031 is an IMF projection
us inflation (avg)
2.20%as of 2031 · 2031 is an IMF projection
us govt debt (% of gdp)
142.10%as of 2031 · 2031 is an IMF projection
us unemployment
3.90%as of 2031 · 2031 is an IMF projection
house indicators // from filings, only hereTHE LAB →
insider buy/sell ratio (45d)0.11
open-market insider buys13
open-market insider sells116
Data from FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), and the IMF World Economic Outlook. Series update on their official release schedules and may lag; IMF forward years are the fund's own projections, not ours. Educational only — not investment advice.