SOURCE DIRECTORY
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ForexMax prioritises official releases and source data. Inclusion here identifies a research starting point, not a claim that every source has been used for every publication.
United States / OFFICIAL API
Federal Reserve Data & FRED
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System / Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Coverage
- Federal Reserve releases and historical macroeconomic series.
- Access
- Official data pages and FRED series reference links.
- Activation gate
- Document the requested series and API entitlement before any stored retrieval is enabled.
Open official source ↗United States / OFFICIAL API
Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Coverage
- Consumer prices, labor-market releases, and statistical release calendar links.
- Access
- Official releases, data tables, charts, and subscriptions.
- Activation gate
- Pin a BLS series identifier, reference period policy, and validation rule before persistence.
Open official source ↗United States / OFFICIAL API
Bureau of Economic Analysis
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Coverage
- GDP, income, trade, and national economic accounts releases.
- Access
- Official releases and data tools.
- Activation gate
- Register an approved API key and record methodology and release calendar before use.
Open official source ↗United States / OFFICIAL API
U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
- Coverage
- Debt, revenue, spending, interest rates, savings bonds, and fiscal datasets.
- Access
- Official REST API with dataset metadata, filters, pagination, and JSON/CSV/XML responses.
- Activation gate
- Approve one named endpoint and field contract; do not interpret values outside its dataset methodology.
Open official source ↗United States / OFFICIAL REPORTING
CFTC Public Reporting
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Coverage
- Commitments of Traders, swaps, bank participation, margin, and related regulatory reports.
- Access
- Official reporting portal with documented COT dataset API routes.
- Activation gate
- Select the exact COT report family and preserve report date, market name, and reporting methodology.
Open official source ↗United States / OFFICIAL API
EIA Open Data
U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Coverage
- Energy statistics across electricity, natural gas, petroleum, crude oil, coal, nuclear, emissions, and international energy.
- Access
- Official API, bulk files, and release tools subject to EIA API terms.
- Activation gate
- Register an API key, approve a series contract, and record its release cadence before use.
Open official source ↗Euro area / SDMX API
ECB Data Portal
European Central Bank
- Coverage
- Euro-area statistical data, metadata, exchange rates, monetary aggregates, and policy-relevant datasets.
- Access
- Official SDMX 2.1 REST data and metadata discovery service.
- Activation gate
- Record the dataflow, dimensions, attributes, and units before a series can be displayed.
Open official source ↗United Kingdom / OFFICIAL PORTAL
Bank of England Database
Bank of England
- Coverage
- Bank Rate history, interest and exchange rates, yield curves, monetary and credit statistics.
- Access
- Official searchable and exportable data-series database.
- Activation gate
- Approve the series code, observation frequency, and export method before retrieval is automated.
Open official source ↗Japan / OFFICIAL API
BOJ Time-Series Data Search
Bank of Japan
- Coverage
- Japanese rates, FX, money, prices, balance of payments, TANKAN, and other Bank of Japan time series.
- Access
- Official JSON/CSV API, portal tables, metadata, and flat-file downloads.
- Activation gate
- Select the official series code and retain the source metadata and update timestamp with every observation.
Open official source ↗International / SDMX API
IMF Data APIs
International Monetary Fund
- Coverage
- IMF datasets, release calendar, and international macroeconomic indicators.
- Access
- Official SDMX APIs and API portal documentation.
- Activation gate
- Confirm the dataset, API access requirements, unit, and release provenance before adding a source contract.
Open official source ↗International / OFFICIAL PORTAL
World Bank Open Data
World Bank
- Coverage
- World Development Indicators, country/economy data, and global development datasets.
- Access
- Official open-data portal and linked data resources.
- Activation gate
- Approve the indicator definition, geography, period, and revision treatment before persistence.
Open official source ↗International / SDMX API
OECD Data API
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Coverage
- OECD statistical datasets, structural metadata, and internationally comparable indicators.
- Access
- Official SDMX API, subject to OECD terms and documented rate limits.
- Activation gate
- Document the dataflow, dimensions, API version, and responsible-query policy before activation.
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