Permutable launches data catalogue for macroeconomic, commodity and geopolitical sentiment intelligence

OExplore Permutable’s data catalogue for macroeconomic sentiment datasets, asset-level intelligence for commodities and geopolitical risk research. Designed for hedge funds, banks, asset managers and trading desks, the catalogue brings together sentiment indices, historical time series and source-linked news signals, helping institutional teams identify relevant data, assess coverage and scope point-in-time evaluations for research, modelling and market monitoring.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our our data discovery catalogue to help institutional teams explore the breadth of Permutable’s data and assess how it could support their investment process.

The catalogue brings together information on our datasets, coverage, historical availability and delivery options. You can search by topic, ticker or sector, compare products and access sample data to begin investigating a specific market or research question.

Explore the data behind market narratives

Our offering spans sentiment indices, historical time series, underlying sentiment signals and source-linked news intelligence. Together, these help researchers examine how narratives are changing and investigate the developments behind those changes.

We organise global information around economies, policy themes, commodities and geopolitics. This allows teams to move between an aggregate view of sentiment and the news and context contributing to it.

“An index provides a useful reference point, but researchers also need to understand what is driving it,” says Wilson Chan, our founder and CEO. “Our data connects changes in sentiment with the news, themes and market context behind them. The catalogue helps institutions explore that depth and identify the information relevant to their own research.”

Find data for your research question

For macroeconomic research, our datasets support analysis across inflation, growth and monetary policy narratives alongside government bond yields, and economic releases. Teams can compare sentiment across economies and topics, including differences between domestic and international reporting.

For commodity research, our data helps teams investigate supply disruptions, demand conditions, inventories, geopolitics and policy. Asset-level sentiment and supporting news intelligence provide context for assessing changing market drivers and their implications for related exposures.

Depending on your investment process, applications include:

• Systematic research: Evaluate historical sentiment signals as potential model inputs and test whether they add information alongside existing datasets.
• Discretionary analysis: Investigate the developments behind sentiment changes, challenge investment assumptions and monitor evolving market narratives.
• Risk monitoring: Track policy, geopolitical and economic developments relevant to country, sector and cross-asset exposures.

Build a focused evaluation

The catalogue makes it easier to establish what a dataset measures, review its coverage and history, and understand how to access it through our Developer Platform, API or Excel plugin.

Our point-in-time data architecture preserves the information available at a given time, supporting historical analysis and helping researchers address look-ahead bias. Source-linked information also allows teams to examine the evidence behind the signals.

“Different desks need different levels of detail. A quantitative researcher may want historical observations for model testing, while a portfolio manager may need to investigate the developments behind a shift in sentiment,” says Michael Brisley, our chief commercial officer. “The catalogue gives teams a clearer view of the available data, its coverage and delivery options, so they can define an evaluation around how they actually work.”

Explore the catalogue

Browse our data discovery catalogue to explore available datasets and sample data.

To discuss an evaluation, email enquiries@permutable.ai with the market, exposure or research question you want to investigate. We can help identify relevant datasets and agree a focused scope for testing.