Datastream

Identify trends, generate and test hypotheses, and develop viewpoints and research. Loaded with 70 years of information, Datastream is the world’s most comprehensive financial time series database.

Why choose Datastream?

The foundations for building your own macroeconomic analysis, creating market scenarios, and testing investment strategies should be deep and rock-solid.

Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 35 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 8.5 million active economic indicators. It features 70 years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events.

Unique content includes I/B/E/S Estimates aggregates, Worldscope Fundamentals Point in Time data, and Reuters Polls.

Data spans bond indices, bonds, commodities, convertibles, credit default swaps, derivatives, economics, energy, equities, equity indices, ESG, estimates, exchange rates, fixed income, funds, fundamentals, interest rates, and investment trusts.

Datastream can be accessed as a data feed, via an API, or integrated into Eikon, with a Microsoft Office add-in for dynamic updates. APIs for Matlab and Eviews are also available for back-testing.

Product in action

Develop macroeconomic insights and accurate forecasting
Articulate what market events mean for your forecasts or investment strategy. Enhance your reports with pre-built charts from leading economists with insights into countries, regions, and trends.

Create insightful charts
Create sophisticated charts to better present your insights using charting features such as correlation, slicing, recession bands, interactive annotations, and more.

Update your reports rapidly and accurately
Create and refresh charts in PowerPoint presentations, Excel, and Word documents with one click.

Easily compare economies in your research
Standardized versions of 51 key indicators across 130 countries. Originally published by national sources, data is adjusted to equivalent statistical form and released on the day of the relevant event.

What you get with Datastream

Comprehensive historical financial database

Build and test investment strategies with over 65 years of data and 35m+ instruments or indicators across all major asset classes.

Unique content

Includes I/B/E/S Estimate Aggregates, Worldscope Fundamentals point-in-time data, and Reuters Polls.

Powerful analytical tools

Explore relationships between different asset types with a library of fully customizable analytical functions.

Integrated with Microsoft Office

Automatically update your reports, tables, charts, and presentations using the Datastream add-in for Microsoft Office.

Flexible API access to data

Access Datastream through industry standard programming languages via APIs using Python or R. Or access content from Matlab and EViews.

Consistent point-in-time data

Back-test, build and validate your models with economic and company fundamentals data as originally reported and as it evolved.

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