In order to make it easier to identify certain key series in Macrobond, they have been given structured aliases that you can use when entering series names in the Series List or when searching.
Economics
Names of some economic key series are constructed by combining the ISO country code with a suffix from the table below. Please note that all key series do not exist for all countries.
| Variable | Series suffix |
|---|---|
| Bank Prime Rate | prime |
| Business Confidence | busconf |
| Building Permits | bpermits |
| Business Cycle Reference Dates | recession |
| Capacity Utilization | caputil |
| Capital Account | capaccount |
| Central Government Budget | cgbal |
| Consumer Confidence | cci |
| CPI | cpi |
| Core CPI | corecpi |
| Current Account Net Balance | account |
| Exports | export |
| Export Prices | epi |
| Earnings | earn |
| Employment | employment |
| Final Consumption Expenditure | consexp |
| Financial Account | finaccount |
| Foreign Debt | debt |
| GDP (Constant Prices) | gdp |
| GDP (Current Prices) | gdpcp |
| GDP per capita | gdppc |
| General Government Budget | ggbal |
| Government Benchmarks | 3mgov,6mgov, 2ygov, 5ygov,10ygov etc |
| Gross Capital Formation | gcf |
| Gross Fixed Capital Formation | gfcf |
| HCPI | hcpi |
| Household Consumption Expenditure | houseexp |
| Housing Starts | hstarts |
| IIP | iip |
| Imports | import |
| Import Prices | ipi |
| Industrial Confidence Indicator | indconf |
| Industrial Production | indprod |
| Interbank Rates | 1wibr, 2wibr, 1mibr, 3mibr, 6mibr etc |
| LIBOR rates | 1mlibor,3mlibor etc |
| Money Supply | m0,m1,m2,m3,m4 etc |
| Mortgage Rate | 2ymort, 5ymort etc |
| New Passenger Car Registrations | cars |
| New Heavy Truck Registrations | trucks |
| PMI | pmi |
| Policy Rate | keyrate |
| PPI | ppi |
| Real Estate Prices | hpi |
| Retail Trade | retailtrade |
| Trade Balance | tradebalance |
| Unemployment | unemployment |
| Wages | wages |
Some examples: sebusconf, usprime, sepmi, gbcpi
Equity
| Variable | Series name |
|---|---|
| Equity Indices | Some index names supported like spx, omx, obx |
Exchange Rates & Swaps
Names of some exchange rate and swaps can be constructed by combining the ISO currency code with a suffix or prefix.
| Variable | Series name |
|---|---|
| Exchange Rate vs SDR | Currency + sdr. Ex. usdsdr, seksdr |
| Exchange Rate vs the USD | Just currency. Ex. sek, eur |
| Exhange Rate vs USD (WM/R) | wmr + currency. Ex. wmreur, wmrsek |
| Swap Rates | Currency+years+yswap. Ex. sek1yswap, gbp2yswap |
Commodities
| Variable | Series name |
|---|---|
| Aluminium | aluminium |
| Broilers | broilers |
| Cattle | cattle |
| Copper | copper |
| Crude Oil | crude |
| Dram | dram |
| Feeder | feeder |
| Gold | gold |
| Hides | hides |
| Iridium | iridium |
| Lead | lead |
| Leanhogs | leanhogs |
| Livehogs | livehogs |
| Lumber | lumber |
| Nickel | nickel |
| Oilstocks | oilstocks |
| Palladium | palladium |
| Platinum | platinum |
| Plywood | plywood |
| Frozen Pork Bellies | pork |
| Pulp | pulp |
| Rhenium | rhenium |
| Rhodium | rhodium |
| Ruthenium | ruthenium |
| Shipping (Baltic Dry) | balticdry or bdi |
| Shipping (Harpex) | harpex |
| Silver | silver |
| Sorghum | sorghum |
| Tin | tin |
| Zinc | zinc |