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Trading Economics operates a web platform and API that aggregates historical data and forecasts for more than 20 million economic indicators across 196 countries, spanning exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices. Its data is drawn from official sources such as national statistics offices and central banks rather than resold third-party feeds, and the site pairs that indicator library with a real-time economic calendar of scheduled releases and a stream of related news. The company differentiates itself from terminal-based data vendors by putting a large share of its indicator library on a free, browsable public website, then monetizing deeper access through tiered API subscriptions, an Excel add-in and client libraries for languages including Python, R and Node.js. This makes it a common reference point for analysts, journalists, students and developers who need a quick, citable macro data point or a chart without a Bloomberg or Refinitiv terminal, while its API and proprietary forecast series target quant researchers and financial applications that need programmatic, high-volume access. Trading Economics was founded in 2007 by Antonio Sousa and Anna Fedec and is headquartered in New York; company profile pages also list an office presence in Lisbon, Portugal. Its public site has recorded more than a billion page views, and the API is offered as a metered trial capped at 100,000 data points and 100 requests before a paid plan is required.
