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Global Macro

Cross-country inflation, short rates, leading indicator, house and equity indices. · fred

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How do major economies compare across inflation, rates, cycle and asset-price direction?

A compact cross-country comparison. It is best for spotting divergence, then drilling into the original country series.

Hub refresh: 6 hours · underlying data ranges from monthly to annualJSON /api/reference/global-macro ↗Source: OECD CLI ↗ + FRED ↗

source · fredassembled · 2026-10-07 03:49:52Zcached · 2026-10-07 03:49:52Z

↗CLI uses 100 as each economy’s own long-term trend. Read both level and direction: above/rising differs from above/falling.
↗The price indices use a common base year for within-country change; they are not comparable price levels across countries.

!CLI is qualitative and can be revised. Do not translate a value such as 100.4 into a GDP growth forecast.
!CPI currently uses a lagged annual World Bank series while the other columns are generally more frequent.

Annual change in consumer prices.

This board currently uses a lagged annual World Bank series.

Three-month money-market interest rate.

A compact view of near-term monetary conditions.

OECD composite leading indicator around a long-term trend of 100.

Read level and direction together; compare phases, not raw levels across countries.

Index normalized to 100 in the base year.

Shows change through time within one country, not price levels between countries.

Country	CPI YoY	Short rate (3M)	CLI	House (2015=100)	Equity (2015=100)
United States	2.95%	3.63%	101.0	156.4	230.7
China	0.06%	2.90%	98.1	85.1	106.0
Japan	3.17%	0.98%	100.3	121.4	263.9
Germany	2.17%	2.19%	101.0	128.5	163.2
United Kingdom	3.88%	3.73%	101.1	109.3	164.1

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