Monetary Dashboard (simple version)

A. Monetary aggregates

• Broad money: M4ex SA is B56Q

• Household Divisia: VTSU

B. Inflation

• CPI: D7G7, CPIH: L550

• BoE/NOP Inflation Attitudes

C. Output

• Real GDP (on previous quarter): IHYQ; (on same quarter of previous year): IHYR

• Nominal GDP (on same quarter of previous year): IHYO

• The Output gap: via OBR

D. Labour market

• Unemployment: LMS

• Average weekly earnings: EARNO1 (I use 1. AWE Total Pay > Whole Economy, 3 month average (KAC3))

A good overview of key data can be found on the Bank of England homepage. The main page of the ONS website has a good snapshot, and they also has a useful dashboard.

The CFM surveys collates the views of prominent economists on macroeconomic and public policy issues.

Also see our Taylor rule calculator and the OECD natural rate of unemployment estimates.

Monetary Dashboard (full version)

You can download the full template here.

A. Monetary aggregates: Bankstats

• M1, M2 and M3: A2.3 "M3 (estimate of EMU aggregate for the UK)"

  • M3 SA is VWYQ

• MA via Kaleidic Economics

• Broad money: A2.2.3 "Monthly M4 and M4 lending excluding intermediate OFCs"

  • M4ex SA is B56Q

    • M4ex NSA is B3DC

    • Divisia: A6.1 "Sectoral deposits and Divisia money"

    • For a Eurozone measure of Divisia M3 see here

    • Monetary Base: A1.1.1 "Notes and coin and reserve balances"

B. Inflation

• CPI: "Time Series"

• RPI: "Time Series"

• See Table 2 for RPI and RPIJ (see this article for an explanation of RPIJ)

• See here for background notes

• PPI: "Producer Price Indices"

  • For data click on statistical bulletin and then "data in this release" (top right). Download PPI Reference Tables and see Table 1 for output prices and Table 2 for input prices.

  • For the US economy the Atlanta Fed has an excellent dashboard here.

C. Inflation expectations

• BoE/NOP Inflation Attitudes

• Fed 5 year b/e

D. House prices

• ONS

• Nationwide

• Halifax

• Mortgage Lending: Look at Statistical Releases for "Mortgage Lenders and Administrators statistics", then Table C

E. Stock market: Yahoo! Finance

• FTSE All share: ^FTAS

• FTSE 100: ^FTSE

• FTSE 250: FT

• AIM: ^FTAI

F. Nominal GDP: 

• See our "Guide to using the UK National Accounts"

• QonpQ

  • RGDP (IHYQ) + GDP deflator (IHYT) = NGDP (IHYN)

• QonQofPY

  • RGDP (IHYR) + GDP deflator (IHYU) = NGDP (IHYO)

• Annual

  • RGDP (IHYP) + GDP deflator (IHYS) = NGDP (IHYM)

• See NGDP

G. Output

• Index of Production

  • Verify with The Economist

• Investment

• See our "Guide to using the UK National Accounts"

  1. Table F

  2. Also see "Private Investment"

• Manufacturing PMI

• The OBR publishes an annual estimate of the Output Gap

H. Labour Market

• See "Key figures" on the right hand side of http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html

• Average weekly earnings (see here)

  • On the ONS site look at the unemployment rate (key figures) > UK Labour Market Statistical Bulletin > See "Data in this release" (top right) > Download EARN01

I. HM Treasury Forecast

J. Commodity prices

• IMF Commodity Market Monthly

K. Yields: Bankstats

• UK 5yr, 10yr and 20yr gilts: Table G1.2

L. Current account

• ONS Balance of Payments:

  • Absolute amount

  • % of GDP

M. Effective exchange rates:

• Bank of England effective exchange indice: Table G1.2

• BIS effective exchange rate index (see Table I1 in Statistical Bulletin)

N. Interest rates: Bankstats

• Bank Rate: Bank of England front page and Decisions

• Interbank: Table G1.1

  • SONIA is SOIA

    • 3 month is AMIJ

• 5yr 75% LTV, SVR, 2yr bond: Table G1.3

  • 5yr 75% LTV is BV42

  • SVR is TLMV

  • 2yr bond is B6RH (see "Deposit rates" sheet)

O. Neutral interest rate: Neutral estimate via Kaleidic Economics

The Bank of England's Target 2.0 competition provides a useful monthly datasheet and long term spreadsheet.

Experimental UK data dashboard looks like an excellent resource to utilise. Also see this BBC News economy tracker. Pantheon Macro produced a nice Heatmap: