Macrobond 1.0

Macrobond is happy to announce that we today released a new version of the Macrobond application. Our goal is to continue to rapidly expand and develop our application much based on client feedback. A selection of news relating to data and functionality is included if you read on.

You upgrade in the application by clicking the yellow line that appears or by Help > Check for Update. A description about how to upgrade if you need help from IT-department is given on https://redir.macrobond.com/go/installation where you click Upgrade for further instructions.

Selection of new functionality:

• Chart style sheet editor – Creating and saving style sheets is now a separate function which you will find among the Action tabs to the left in the application.
• Storage of style sheets – Style Sheets can now be stored locally or on our servers (in either your personal or company account) and accessed from there.
• Printer selection – Added choices for print properties with Landscape / Portrait and also the ability to choose your printer in the Macrobond application instead of automatically going to the Windows Default Printer.
• Simple formula language – In the series list you can now use +, -, *, /, parenthesis and numerical constants.
• Chart annotations – using text boxes and drawing
• The Real Time Data (RTD) function which retrieves data directly from the Macrobond database in real time in Microsoft Excel.

Selection of data added recently:

• MSCI Index Module – The Index module includes Price and Total Return (Gross and Net) for Developed, Emerging and Asia Pacific markets. They are available with a daily and monthly frequency and with full history.
• Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States – Quarterly statistics from the Federal Reserve with history back to 1945.
• Quarterly statistics from Federal Reserve with history back to 1945
• Commitment of Traders Report – The report is published by the CFTC, which is a US government entity. CFTC data includes the COT report, CIT report and disaggregated report.
• Hours worked per sector for Sweden – Hours worked (ESA95), working day and seasonally adjusted by industrial classification published by SCB.
• Danish house price data – Sourced from Association of Danish Mortgage Banks.
• Private Equity index series from LPX – The LPX indices are widely used to track the performance of listed alternative asset classes and for benchmarking actively managed portfolios.
• Euro area bank lending survey – The survey addresses issues such as credit standards for approving loans as well as credit terms and conditions applied to enterprise and households.