Macro Insights
CRC’s Macro Insights provides indispensable intelligence delivered directly to our customers in a succinct and easy-to-digest manner. From real-time macroeconomic forecasts to forward-looking recommendations, we pride ourselves on bringing clarity to dynamic markets and evolving customer needs.
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Prepare for economic challenges and update your business outlook
Today’s economic landscape is marked by high borrowing costs, mounting inventory levels, looming threat of a government shutdown, and ongoing union worker strikes. The risks to growth are substantial, especially against a backdrop of high inflation. Planning for uncertainties has never been more important – and that’s why we provide real-time insights into the latest economic developments. Whether it’s a new economic cycle, emerging trend, or shifting forecast, our goal is to frame growth opportunities and update your business outlook along the way.
Understanding real-time macroeconomic trends by diving into key themes across the globe
We tie together all our work across key channels and industry sectors with global economic dynamics to offer a comprehensive view of the macroeconomic indicators influencing the consumer, housing market, and geopolitical landscape. Through written reports, data sets, and webinars, we shed light on trends around inflation, the labor market, consumer spending, supply chain, and more.
Our unique research process unlocks interactive insights and proprietary data
We’re known for digging in the channel – and we combine that bottoms-up approach with top-down economic data. This holistic view enables us to identify inflection points and uncover what’s truly behind the numbers.
At CRC, we provide interactive insights and dashboards that empower our customers to monitor the slope of the US economy. Our recurring reports include:
- Weekly High-Frequency Economic Data and Channel Insights
- Monthly Economic Dashboards covering retail, home improvement, eCommerce, foodservice, farm & ranch sectors
- Monthly Store Foot Traffic Report
- Monthly Transportation Industry Update
- Quarterly Consumer Purchasing Behavior Analysis
- Quarterly International Dashboards covering China & Canada
We also offer exclusive surveys and forecasts addressing key themes across the macroeconomic landscape, spanning everything from GDP and inflation to consumer spending and unemployment rate.
A Macro Insights subscription* encompasses CRC’s most holistic view of macroeconomic trends
Research and reports
Our Macro Insights research includes thematic reports, interactive dashboards, proprietary surveys, and updated forecasts. Market research customers have access to CRC’s Partner Portal, where you can download the latest updates or browse the research library.
Webinars
We host quarterly topical webinars and semi-annual China focused webinars to discuss key shifts and emerging themes that will help you navigate the complexities of today’s challenging economic environment.
Analyst engagement
With 25 years of experience analyzing the market, CRC analysts have deep industry knowledge of your customers and channels. Combined with regular interactions with other CRC partners, this produces industry-leading best practices and valuable insights that help shape your business strategies.
*A Cleveland Research Company Council subscription is required to unlock the full product offering of Macro Insights. To learn more about our market research councils, click here.
Macro Insights market research FAQs
The macroeconomic environment significantly influences business decisions in various ways. For example, the change in the macroeconomic situation could significantly impact consumer spending which is a major driver of business revenue. It is crucial for businesses to have a comprehensive understanding of the macroeconomic landscape, including inflation level, consumer sentiment, households’ financial health, job market situation, and purchasing behavior to develop the right strategy and hedge potential risks.
CRC provides weekly and monthly economic trackers with summaries and highlights. The reports cover broad topics including economic barometers, foot traffic data, inflation index, labor market, consumers’ financial situation and more. We constantly add new data to our report. Our Weekly High-Frequency Economic Data report is the most popular product among our readers. We also provide interactive charts so you can browse and analyze the data easily.