As the coronavirus pandemic hits the auto industry hard, investors need to find ways to weather the storm. In this Intelligence report, we explore different types of alternative datasets that can help investors evaluate auto companies and OEMs. We will discuss a variety of datasets, ranging from clickstream datasets that can gauge consumer demand, to crowdsourced and economic datasets that can shed light on auto production, inventory, and sales.

As healthcare systems around the world are inundated and drug companies race to find a cure, we struggle to think of a time when healthcare stocks have been in the spotlight as much as they are today. In this report, we discuss 11 ways that investors can use alternative data to (a) broadly monitor the state of the healthcare sector, and (b) identify the companies that matter in the fight against COVID-19.

In Part II, we continue our assessment the alternative datasets that can enhance nowcasting models. In this report, we focus on the datasets that track business activity, consumer spending, oil prices, inflation and central bank sentiment.