Access to high level data to benchmark time periods and/or regions to that could link to state and country mapped by same time periods.
Examples:
Manufacturing PPI
Consumer Price Index
Consumer Confidence
Census Data
S&P 500
New housing starts
Total Building Permits
Architectures Building Index
Hardi Data
Comex for Copper
CRU for Steel
LBS for Lumber
Imagine a Dashboard with your own commodity margins on a line graph mapped right next to the corresponding Nasdaq data… Would fit neatly as a Stream in the Sales database.