Glossary
Macro terms, data terms, and platform terms in one place
Search matches term names, aliases, categories, and definitions.
Platform-specific workflow terms are marked separately from standard macro vocabulary.
Macro foundations
Production, spending, hiring, income, and capacity outside the narrower financial-market layer.
Policy and finance
The extra yield investors demand for bearing default or funding risk over a safer benchmark.
The price of one currency in terms of another currency.
A broad read on rates, spreads, asset prices, lending conditions, and risk appetite.
Central-bank communication about the future path of policy meant to influence current financial conditions.
How easily assets can be traded or financing can be obtained without large price disruption.
Central-bank actions that influence interest rates, financial conditions, and the broader economy.
The willingness of investors or lenders to take on risk.
