---
title: "Board Signals Economic Indicators – Pre-built Datasets for Strategic Analysis"
slug: "board-signals-economic-indicators"
description: "Learn how the Board Signals add-on delivers more than 750 economic indicators; activate industry packages, load data into Cubes, create Screens and Presentations for strategic insights."
tags: ["Economic Indicators", "Signals", "Data Model"]
updated: 2025-10-14T06:32:13Z
published: 2025-10-14T06:32:13Z
canonical: "help.board.com/board-signals-economic-indicators"
---

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# Economic Indicators in Board Signals

## Overview

Starting in version 14.3, Board introduces the **Board Signals** add-on, enabling users to access curated **Economic indicators**. These indicators can be added to Screen Objects as Cubes to:

- Enhance forecast accuracy
- Identify emerging trends
- Support data-driven decision-making

**Setup Requirements:** The Economic indicators add-on must be enabled during instance configuration or version upgrades. An API connection must be established in Foresight.

## Step-by-Step: Adding Economic indicators to Cubes

### Accessing the Data Model

Once enabled, a new **Economic indicators** data structure will be available in your Data Model.

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### Viewing Industry Properties

Once you click on the Economic indicators data structure, a new screen will appear. This will be populated with the Signals industry activated in your instance, and includes the following properties:

- **Industry**: The name of the Signals industry (e.g. Retail, Manufacturing).
- **Number of Economic Indicators**: The total indicators available for that industry.
- **Description**: The region associated with the industry (e.g. United States, European Union).

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### Viewing and Configuring Indicators

Clicking on an industry opens a modal listing the Economic indicators within that segment. Each indicator includes the following properties:

- **Name**: A clean, user-friendly name.
- **Active**: A bubble (blue when active); activating this will create a Cube, deactivating it will remove the Cube. See [Indicator Activation Behavior](/v14/docs/board-signals-economic-indicators#indicator-activation-behavior).
- **Technical Name**: The Foresight platform's internal name.
- **Description**: A short explanation of the indicator.

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Click on an indicator to access two tabs:

- **Configuration tab**: Activate/deactivate the indicator and/or optionally rename the indicator.

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- **Details tab**: View additional details on the indicator, such as a time-series chart, frequency, data type, units, seasonality, provider ID, number of historical and forecast points, and indicator tags.

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### Indicator Activation Behavior

When an indicator is activated:

- The **Active** status is visually confirmed (the row no longer appears greyed out).

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- A **Cube** is automatically created in the Data Model. The Cube is grouped under the corresponding **Industry name**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/8d6f1ae8-0cac-4d0d-a208-6245b83df94a/Images/Documentation/image(75).png)

- You can now add the indicator directly to Screen Objects as a Cube using the Layout Editor.

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