sources of wide range of historic and real-time macro data?

Discussion in 'Data Sets and Feeds' started by Buurzgoth, Nov 11, 2011.

  1. (This is a re-post of a question asked to Trading Software forum http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230068; I'm hoping users here can provide some more advice, especially regarding Bloomberg)

    Hi everyone,
    Could anyone point me to companies which provide both historic and current data for a wide arrange of macro data (i.e. ags acreage and yield estimates, interest rates, ags imports/exports, energy storage levels, stock/index/commodities prices, etc.)?

    I believe Bloomberg has some (or all?) of that data, but do they also have API to pull in historical data? Do any other companies provide something like that?

    I appreciate your help,
    Buurz