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High-yield OAS minus investment-grade OAS — isolates the incremental risk premium for lower-quality credit. Widens when credit stress is conce…

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge, measuring price changes in personal consumption. Broader than CPI, covers more goods and services. Used d…

JOLTS job openings divided by BLS unemployed persons count. Above 1.0 means more open jobs than unemployed workers — historically tight labor …

Average of Chicago Fed NFCI and St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index, normalized to a common scale. Positive = tighter/more stressed than aver…

Median price of newly constructed homes sold in the U.S. Measures affordability trends in the new home market. Sensitive to mortgage rates and…

FRED economic data API. Fetch the latest official Federal Reserve economic-series value and metadata by FRED series ID.

FRED economic data API. Fetch the latest official Federal Reserve economic-series value and metadata by FRED series ID.

St. Louis Fed composite stress index measuring strain in U.S. financial markets. Constructed from 18 weekly data series including rates, sprea…

Upper bound of the FOMC's target range for the federal funds rate. The ceiling of the Fed's policy corridor. Pair with the lower limit to dete…

Total U.S. employment excluding farm workers — the broadest monthly labor market measure. Reported on the first Friday of each month (jobs rep…

GDP divided by M2 money supply — measures how efficiently money circulates in the economy. Declining velocity means more money is needed to ge…

10-year Treasury yield minus 10-year breakeven inflation rate. Represents the real return demanded for long-dated government bonds. Negative r…