---
title: "Liminal Macro coverage and data sources"
description: "Verified countries, regional indices, policy areas, sources, asset classes, and update distinctions."
date_published: 2026-10-19
last_updated: 2026-10-19
canonical: https://liminalmacro.com/coverage
---

# Liminal Macro coverage and data sources

Liminal Macro is a free, independent market-intelligence system for portfolio-aware news, global macro context, and primary-source research.

### Countries and regions

| Geography | Named index | Implemented scope |
|---|---|---|
| United States | S&P 500 | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| Germany | DAX | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| United Kingdom | FTSE 100 | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| France | CAC 40 | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| Japan | Nikkei 225 | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| China / Hong Kong | Hang Seng | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| Taiwan | TAIEX | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| India | Sensex | Regional historical index/exposure context |
| Israel | TA-125 | Regional historical index/exposure context |

The active cross-country policy comparison covers the United States, euro area, United Kingdom, and Japan through BIS. Japanese CPI is read through e-Stat. Regional index support does not imply a complete local-equity universe, national inflation feed, or real-time exchange entitlement. Saudi Tadawul is excluded from the regional registry because that history source was too thin.

### Data sources and publication cadence

| Source | Implemented use | Observation cadence |
|---|---|---|
| [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/) | Treasury yields and economic time series | Series-specific official observations; releases can be revised |
| [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/) | U.S. prices, employment, and labor measures | Monthly and quarterly measures; not an intraday feed |
| [Bureau of Economic Analysis](https://www.bea.gov/) | U.S. GDP and international accounts | Quarterly GDP and dataset-specific releases |
| [U.S. Census Bureau](https://www.census.gov/economic-indicators/) | Monthly U.S. goods trade by commodity and partner | Monthly observations; service checks for newly published periods |
| [U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data](https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/) | Treasury cash, debt, debt service, and auction measures | Dataset-specific daily, monthly, or auction schedules |
| [Federal Reserve Bank of New York](https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets) | SOFR, repo, and primary dealer observations | Daily funding observations and periodic dealer data |
| [Bank for International Settlements](https://www.bis.org/statistics/) | Policy rates, U.S. credit-to-GDP gap and debt-service ratio | Policy-rate series monthly; credit measures quarterly |
| [International Monetary Fund](https://www.imf.org/) | Reserve-currency composition and commodity price series | COFER quarterly; commodity prices monthly |
| [Japan e-Stat](https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en) | Japanese CPI and trade data | Monthly statistics; English API parameter |
| [SEC EDGAR](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings) | Reported company financials and filing evidence | As filed; annual, quarterly, and event-driven documents |
| [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation](https://www.fdic.gov/) | Bank regulatory and balance-sheet measures | Periodic regulatory reporting, commonly quarterly |
| [Commodity Futures Trading Commission](https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm) | Commitments of Traders positioning | Weekly reports; position and publication dates differ |
| [U.S. Energy Information Administration](https://www.eia.gov/) | Energy production, stocks, and market data | Dataset-specific weekly and monthly releases |
| [Financial Modeling Prep](https://financialmodelingprep.com/) | Analyst estimates and company data; companion services handle profiles, filings, transcripts, news, calendars | Endpoint and provider-dependent observations |
| [Finnhub](https://finnhub.io/) | Analyst recommendations and earnings/calendar integration | Endpoint-specific; issuer schedules can change |
| [Alpaca](https://alpaca.markets/) | Equity and ETF bars using the IEX feed | Single-exchange observations, not consolidated-market coverage |
| [Yahoo Finance historical feed](https://finance.yahoo.com/) | Historical market closes, including regional indices | Daily closes; availability and adjustments vary by symbol |
| [Deribit](https://www.deribit.com/) | Crypto derivatives volatility and perpetual funding | Market-dependent derivatives observations |
| [Alpha Vantage](https://www.alphavantage.co/) | Independent earnings-date corroboration | Provider calendar updates; dates require verification |
| [GoldAPI](https://www.goldapi.io/) | Precious-metals spot observations | Provider-dependent quote observations |
| [OpenSanctions](https://www.opensanctions.org/) | Sanctioned-securities lookup | Dataset updates; lookup, not a daily additions time series |

### News sources

The Wire’s configured source names include:

- Ars Technica
- Axios
- BBC
- Banking Dive
- CNBC
- CoinDesk
- Crunchbase News
- Defense News
- European Central Bank
- Federal Reserve
- Financial Times
- Fox Business
- GeekWire
- MIT Technology Review
- MarketWatch
- NPR Business
- Nvidia Newsroom
- OilPrice
- OpenAI Newsroom
- Retail Dive
- SEC
- Semiconductor Industry Association
- TechCrunch
- The Economist
- The Guardian
- Wall Street Journal

These are configured ingestion sources, not a claim that every feed is healthy at every moment or that Liminal owns the full publisher articles. Research discovery also includes official central-bank and agency feeds. Original publisher rights remain separate from Liminal’s educational guide license.

### Asset classes and exchange scope

The instrument registry contains indices, ETFs, equities, yields, commodities, currencies, crypto, and alternative-market proxies. Credit research also uses banking and financing data. Alpaca’s implemented feed is IEX, a single-exchange source; it is not a consolidated-tape entitlement. Index names such as DAX and Sensex establish index context, not unrestricted instruments on their underlying exchanges.

### What an update means

The inspected warm client polling policy requests quotes every second, news every minute, the calendar every five minutes, and primary-source signals every thirty minutes. These are request intervals, not promises that an upstream observation or written brief changes at those speeds. Monthly and quarterly series remain monthly and quarterly. Always read the observation and publication dates.

[Official-source directory](/guides/central-banks-and-official-data-sources) · [Global macro workflow](/guides/global-markets-and-macro) · [Data reliability](/guides/free-financial-information)