#investment

How fast each economy's businesses and governments are investing in new capital, on one comparable screen — real gross fixed capital formation growth from the OECD's official Quarterly National Accounts as an API, live, no key. Gross fixed capital formation — investment in machinery, buildings, infrastructure and equipment — is the most cyclical and forward-looking component of GDP: firms only commit to new plant and projects when they are confident about demand, so investment turns down before recessions and surges first in recoveries. Its year-on-year change is one of the cleanest reads on the business cycle, and a swing factor that moves the currency and the capex-exposed parts of the equity market. The OECD harmonises and seasonally adjusts the real, chain-linked-volume figures so they are genuinely comparable across countries. This API serves the two growth rates people quote — quarter-on-quarter (the latest quarter's pace) and year-on-year (versus the same quarter a year earlier) — for real investment. The board endpoint ranks every economy by its year-on-year investment growth, so you can see where capex is booming and where it is collapsing. The momentum endpoint ranks by the latest quarter-on-quarter move. The country endpoint gives one economy's investment growth with a plain-language read. Each reading carries its own quarter and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The capital-investment / capex cut — distinct from the headline GDP-growth board (this isolates the investment component), the consumer-demand and trade boards, the annual IMF World Economic Outlook database, and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are quarterly, in percent.

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Investment return analysis as an API, computed locally and deterministically. The cagr endpoint computes the compound annual growth rate, (end/begin)^(1/years) − 1 — the single constant yearly rate that turns a starting value into an ending value — along with the total return and growth multiple, or runs the other way to project an ending value from a CAGR. The doubling endpoint gives how long an investment takes to double at a given rate, both the exact figure ln(2)/ln(1+r) and the quick Rule-of-72, -70 and -69.3 estimates, or inverts it to the rate needed to double within a target time. The real-return endpoint applies the Fisher equation, real = (1+nominal)/(1+inflation) − 1, to strip inflation out of a headline return — or works backwards to the nominal return needed for a target real return — showing how the rough nominal-minus-inflation shortcut drifts at higher rates. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for fintech, robo-advisor, portfolio and personal-finance app developers, return and retirement calculators, and finance education. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. This analyses a lump-sum return; for regular-deposit savings projections use a savings API and for loan amortization a loan API.

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