Macro Workstation

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Comprehensive U.S. Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecast Model With Custom Flexibility

Overview

Macro Workstation provides not only timely reviews and forecasts of the U.S. macroeconomy and all its subsectors but also access to the Moody's Economy.com U.S. Macro Model that allows users to analyze their own "what-if" scenarios.

The macro research includes extensive written analysis of current economic conditions, outlook, and risks, supplemented by the most recent performance statistic tables. Also included are detailed five-year macro baseline and alternative scenarios forecasts.

The U.S. Macro Model allows users to examine "what-if" questions and create their own scenarios:

• Oil price shocks
• Housing bust or boom
• High or low interest rates
• Terrorist attacks
• Natural disasters
• Inflation

Applications

Macro Workstation has broad appeal among customers from different industries such as commercial real estate, utility, local governments, consumer lending, and retail, etc.

The valuable applications include:

• Stress testing your portfolio.
• Forming contingency plans.
• Evaluating shocks.
• Preparing forecasts based on your corporate assumptions.
• Linking the U.S. model to your own models.
• Planning resource allocation efficiently.

Key Features

Our macro research is the only U.S. macro publication that also examines the implications of regional economic growth for the macroeconomy. The performance statistic tables contain most recent and five-year forecast data points for approximately 250 economic and financial variables. Standard chapters include:

• U.S. Regional Economies Overview
• U.S. and International Financial Markets
• Labor Markets
• Cost Pressures
• Federal, State and Local Government Activity
• Business Investment
• Consumer Activity
• Energy and Commodities
• Short- and Long-Term Economic Forecasts

And our U.S. Macro Model allows users to customize their own scenarios and run simulations.

• Web-based—no software to download or purchase.
• No mnemonics to learn—just point and click.
• Easily view the equations, residuals and add factors.
• Automatic data updates for both history and forecast.
• Chart across scenarios for easy comparison.
• Trace through the linkages—which variables affect each other.

Key model attributes:

• Over 1,200 variables
• Intuitive interface
• Household balance sheets and credit quality conditions not found in other large-scale models
• Updated monthly baseline forecast
• Re-estimated quarterly

Updates

Analysis and forecasts are updated monthly.