Global macro is an investment strategy that leverages macroeconomic and geopolitical data to analyze and predict moves in financial markets.[3][4] Large-scale or "macro" political and economic events can disproportionately impact certain sectors, such as the energy, commodity, and currency markets, over others. The strategy typically employs forecasts and analysis of interest rate trends, international trade and payments, political changes, government policies, international relations, and other broad systemic factors.