Data in Focus: A New Way of Looking at Water

As the world’s population approaches 10 billion people and chronic droughts and water shortages proliferate, water has become our most critical and contested resource. Although technological advances have helped alleviate the threat of shortages in oil…

Bringing Transparency to Oil Supply in Closed Economies

From the Macroscope: Home Improvement Stores End 2015 With a Whimper

Improving our View of the Changing World with Planet

Exabytes (billions of gigabytes) of information travel the world on fiber optic cables at nearly the speed of light, but economic reports generally update on monthly, quarterly, and even yearly schedules. At Orbital Insight, we extract…

Orbital Insight Correctly Predicts Retail Sales Miss, Hit Rate Grows to 78%

On January 12th, Orbital Insight’s US Retail Traffic Index predicted a miss of Bloomberg consensus estimates for Retail Sales ex-Auto in December (+0.2% MoM). On Friday, January 15th, the census reported a -0.1% MoM decrease in Retail Sales ex-Auto…

Orbital Insight Announces Expanded Product Coverage in Retail and Energy Verticals

Orbital Insight is excited to announce enhancements to both its US Retail Traffic and Worldwide Oil Storage and Production product suites.