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Global Economic Index

Global Economy · Issue Fri, Aug 21, 2026

Reading the world economy,
carefully.

A live index of the world economy across growth, inflation, labor, rates, and markets — the median across every economy we track, updated every weekday.

● Global markets today

How the world's markets are trading

Explore the globe
● Economic weather
Partly cloudy
A reading on current macro conditions.
● 60-second brief
The macro today
Friday, August 21 · in plain English

Commentary will appear once data refresh runs. Try npm run ai:generate-all.

● what moved today
Biggest movers
top 5 changes since yesterday
Movers will appear after the first data refresh.