T raditional economic indicators can be inadequate owing to issues of timeliness, granularity, difficulty in collection, and lack of reliability due to their “rear-view mirror” biases. A real-time measurement of economic conditions is unavailable within a traditional framework.

Traditional indicators like GDP are not frequently updated given the complexity in compiling them. Relying on this data involves waiting for several months, as quarterly data on these indicators are released several weeks after the end of the reference quarter. While these data are considered to provide a fair picture of the state of the economy in the near past, they do not help gauge the impact of exogenous shock or swift changes in the business cycle in real-time.

SquareMacro indicators are focused on the systematic integration of alternative and traditional data. They are designed specifically to track economic conditions in real-time and at higher frequency than traditional measurements or analytical frameworks.

SquareMacro economic indicators are powered by a proprietary machine learning methodology which efficiently handles large numbers of alternative and traditional data set relevant to track the evolution of economic conditions in real-time. Our approach is robust across any geographical dimension and degree of granularity, including multi-country, country, regional and local level.

Unique insights to track the economy in real time
SquareMacro’s proprietary methodology enables to manage and process highly dimensional and heterogenous data by adjusting for noise, asynchronicity, mixed frequencies, and varying data histories.

Robust Approach
SquareMacro methodology is model and view agnostic, deploying unsupervised learning algorithms extracts real-time economic insights without imposing subjective or arbitrary views.

Systematic Data Integration
SquareMacro identifies and screens thousands of economic data sources, focusing on the systematic integration of alternative and traditional data.

Timely and Frequent
SquareMacro delivers indicators able to track economic conditions in real-time and at higher frequency than traditional measures.

Insightful and Actionable
SquareMacro indicators identifies key economic drivers in a actionable and standardised format across countries, customizable regional or thematic aggregations.