Best tools for Middle East coverage

TIKR

TIKR is a browser equity-research terminal for global fundamentals, statements, estimates, valuation, transcripts, filings, and screens. It suits long-term stock research; paid plans add history, coverage, exports, and higher workflow limits.

Uncle Stock

Uncle Stock screens more than 100,000 global stocks with financial metrics, valuation models, scores, historical tests, watchlists, and alerts. Gold adds CSV and JSON access, an MCP server, and limited portfolio tracking. It is not a broker or an intraday trading simulator.

Addepar

Addepar is a professional portfolio system for RIAs, family offices, private banks, asset managers, and institutions. It brings accounting, reporting, trading, alternative assets, client portals, and firm data together, with pricing and implementation handled through sales.

Bloomberg (Europe)

Bloomberg Europe is the regional Bloomberg.com newsroom and app experience. It offers European and global business reporting, market snapshots, watchlists, alerts, TV, radio, podcasts, newsletters, and Businessweek. It is a media subscription, not Bloomberg Terminal, execution, or institutional data access.

Bridgewater Associates

Bridgewater's public site is a research library, not a self-serve way to invest with Bridgewater. It is useful for reading the firm's macro work on Pure Alpha, All Weather, risk parity, inflation, monetary policy, debt cycles, and systematic investing. The site does not open Bridgewater mandates to ordinary investors.

CB Insights

CB Insights is an enterprise intelligence service for strategy, innovation, venture, corporate development, M&A, and investment teams. It maps private and public companies, investors, deals, markets, and competitive signals, with AI scouting and workflow integrations. Pricing and data-feed scope are commercial discussions.

Cbonds

Cbonds is a bond-data service for professional and private investors. Search bonds, quotes, yields, ratings, new issues, events, watchlists, and portfolios. Companies can also license API and file feeds or an Excel add-in.

Dune

Dune lets users query decoded blockchain data with SQL and turn it into dashboards, APIs, alerts, uploads, and agent workflows. It is for custom onchain research across many chains, not a fixed crypto market-data screen.

EIA Open Data

EIA Open Data is the U.S. government's source for energy statistics and operational data. Browse the series or use the free API, bulk files, and spreadsheet tools for commodity, utility, macro, and energy-market research.

Envestnet Wealth Management Platform

Envestnet is an enterprise wealthtech suite for RIAs, broker-dealers, banks, asset managers, and fintechs. It connects planning, proposals, trading, reporting, billing, client portals, data, APIs, and integrations. It is built for firms, not self-directed investors.

ETF Action

ETF Action is a professional ETF research and model-building service. It covers classification, look-through holdings, overlap, flows, model portfolios, 13F screens, exports, and enterprise data workflows. It is for teams that need more than a free quote page.

Euromonitor (Passport)

Euromonitor Passport is a paid market-research database for industries, economies, consumers, countries, sales channels, forecasts, reports, and structured data delivery. It can add global consumer or industry context to research based on company filings.

Federal Reserve Board (FRB.gov)

FRB.gov is the Federal Reserve's primary source for policy material, FOMC dates, statistical releases, interest rates, balance sheets, bank data, FX, industrial production, and downloadable series. It is official macro infrastructure, not a commercial investing terminal.

Financial Modeling Prep (FMP)

Financial Modeling Prep provides API and spreadsheet access to market data, fundamentals, news, calendars, transcripts, ownership, and macroeconomic data. The free Basic tier is an end-of-day test plan. Real-time, global, transcript, 13F, intraday, and bulk access require paid plans. Display or redistribution requires a separate commercial agreement.

FinancialReports.eu

Financial Filings provides public-company filings through a free web index, APIs and a hosted MCP server. It supports document search, Markdown extraction, standardized financials, webhooks and enterprise data delivery.

Finbox

Finbox combines global stock screens with company financials, valuation models, charts, watchlists, and spreadsheet exports. Investors can move from a screen into a company model or peer comparison. Regional access and export rights depend on the subscription.

Fintel

Fintel brings short interest, off-exchange volume, institutional ownership, insider trades, ETF exposure, options sentiment, filings, screens, alerts, APIs, and AI research into ticker pages. It is useful for studying positioning and crowding before deeper fundamental work. Premium data, exports, options flow, AI, and portfolio tools depend on the plan, and the signals are inputs rather than recommendations.

Firstrade

Firstrade is an online brokerage for stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, options, and fixed income, with web and mobile access for U.S. and supported international users. It advertises $0 online commissions for stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and options, while regulatory, fund, borrow, fixed-income, transfer, and service costs still apply. International eligibility follows its 27-country matrix.

FlightAware

FlightAware tracks flights and sells aviation data. Investors can use it as alternative data when routes, delays, airports, airlines, logistics, business travel, or private aviation matter. Consumer tracking is free; AeroAPI, Firehose, Foresight, FlightAware Global, and Rapid Reports serve developer and enterprise workflows. It is not financial data, so flight signals still need sector-specific work.

Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan sells analyst research, industry reports, Frost Radar studies, economic research, and a market-intelligence platform. Use it for market structure, competition, technology adoption, and market forecasts, not ticker-level fundamentals. Store reports have public prices, while platform and enterprise access require a sales conversation.

FT Markets (Markets data - Financial Times)

FT Markets brings Financial Times market data close to global equities, funds, ETFs, bonds, commodities, currencies, watchlists, portfolios, alerts, charts, and screens. It is useful for FT readers who want consumer-grade tracking beside the newsroom. Data is delayed, and deeper data, director dealings, archives, and parts of the FT require a subscription.

FX Replay

FX Replay lets traders replay forex, futures, stocks, crypto, and commodity markets in a browser. It supports multi-chart sessions, multi-asset tests, journaling, checklists, risk simulation, CSV import, and an economic calendar. It does not automate strategies or place live broker orders.

Global Factor Data (JKP Factors)

Global Factor Data publishes equity factor returns, underlying portfolios, industry returns, reference files, and construction code. It covers 153 published factors across 93 countries and four regions. The data is for noncommercial research, not live trading.

Google Trends

Google Trends measures relative search interest by place and time. Investors use it to watch attention, demand proxies, brand momentum, consumer themes, and news spikes. The index is normalized, not exact query volume or revenue. The web interface is broad, while official API access is limited and BigQuery covers selected queries.

ICE Index Platform (ICE Data Indices)

ICE Index Platform provides licensed ICE index levels, constituents, historical performance, fixed-income benchmarks, automated feeds, custom index tools, and the ICE Global Index Feed. It serves benchmark, risk, product, and data teams. Access and reuse depend on subscriptions and licensing, not a free public database.

Intrinio

Intrinio sells licensed market data for developers and data teams. APIs, WebSockets, MCP, files, Snowflake, S3, and selected FTP workflows cover markets, fundamentals, options, ETFs, funds, analysts, dividends, splits, and company news. Price, entitlements, redistribution rights, and delivery methods vary by plan and dataset.

Kubera

Kubera is a paid balance-sheet and portfolio tracker for households, founders, expats, advisors, and family offices. It aggregates banks, brokers, crypto, real estate, private equity, alternatives, documents, beneficiaries, and currencies, with scenarios, estate handoff, advisor portals, and an API. It is reporting software, not a broker, tax engine, or rebalancer.

Listen Notes

Listen Notes is a podcast search engine, API, alerts service, and dataset seller. Investors can search interviews, monitor keywords, and analyze podcast metadata as one research input. A podcast mention is not a verified financial disclosure.

MacroMicro

MacroMicro visualizes economic cycles and markets through macro dashboards, ETF tools, institutional holdings, COT flows, events, correlations, backtests, and AI earnings summaries. It is a visual macro research service with paid exports and APIs. Higher plans control downloads, API access, commercial charts, and reuse rights.

MarineTraffic

MarineTraffic tracks vessels, voyages, ports, routes, custom areas, alerts, historical tracks, and AIS data APIs. Investors can use ship movements and port calls as supply-chain, shipping, and commodity context. It is not securities data, a price feed, broker, or portfolio tool, and API access depends on entitlement.

MarketInOut

MarketInOut screens stocks, ETFs, forex, and crypto with formulas, historical screens, strategy backtests, alerts, watchlists, portfolios, correlations, and one-time membership terms. It suits traders who want custom rules without a monthly SaaS bill. Free use is limited and there is no broker execution, sync, or automation.

Marketlog

Marketlog tracks portfolios on web and mobile through manual or broker-connected holdings, dividends, goals, target allocation, benchmarks, forecasts, alerts, market pages, calendars, and portfolio sharing. It is useful for monitoring positions and behavior, not for brokerage, advice, execution, or a public market-data API.

Markets.com

Markets.com is a global CFD broker with web, mobile, desktop, MetaTrader, TradingView, and social or copy trading across supported products and jurisdictions. It is an execution service, so availability, protections, and costs vary by country. A free account does not remove spreads, swaps, FX, taxes, or other charges.

MarketScreener

MarketScreener combines global quotes, news, watchlists, screens, charts, calendars, analyst data, financials, transcripts, ESG data, insider data, newsletters, and published portfolios. Several screens, reports, and portfolios require a paid plan.

Marketstack

Marketstack is an APILayer REST service for prices, end-of-day history, intraday bars, corporate actions, reference data, ETF holdings, bond yields, commodities, analyst ratings, and SEC EDGAR datasets. It suits prototypes and products that need a simple stock API. It is not a charting app, broker, portfolio tracker, or unlimited institutional license.

MarketWatch

MarketWatch combines Dow Jones financial news with quotes, watchlists, screens, calendars, BigCharts, options chains, fund research, rates, newsletters, and Virtual Stock Exchange. It is a consumer market site, not a broker, professional terminal, API, or modeling system; delays and subscription boundaries still apply.

MoatMap

MoatMap combines daily Quality, Value, and Momentum scores with AI reports, insider filings, portfolio analysis, macro regimes, Top Picks, and investor lenses. Premium actions consume one-time Feather credits. Its market data and AI output still need source checks.

MSN Money

MSN Money is a free Microsoft finance portal for market news, quotes, watchlists, company pages, earnings calendars, funds, and basic personal finance. It is for casual monitoring and beginner research, not professional analytics or trading.

Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC)

The Observatory of Economic Complexity maps countries, products, industries, exports, imports, rankings, and trade relationships through visualizations and an API. It supports macro, supply-chain, and thematic research, not security-level analysis.

Oilprice.com

Oilprice.com covers oil prices, crude blends, rig counts, energy news, and commodity context. It is useful for energy and macro monitoring; premium access is research and newsletters, not a trading terminal.