SOURCE DIRECTORY

Start with the original record.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Verification policy: research records should retain the original source URL, publication date, evidence, and verification status. Missing or unavailable data is marked as such; it is never inferred as a fact.