Indexes

FinanceLab publishes news-based attention indices: how much of the day's news covers a market theme, indexed to 100 = the historical average (frozen at end-2025) and 7-day averaged. Every prominent spike is traced to the source headlines that drove it. The indices are descriptive - a measure of news attention, not a trading signal. See Methodology.

Three indices are available today:

List indices

curl -H "X-API-Key: flk_..." https://api.financelab.ai/api/v1/indexes

{
  "indexes": [
    {
      "slug": "bank-stress",
      "name": "Bank / Financial Stress Index",
      "blurb": "Relevance-filtered media attention to banking and credit stress.",
      "current": 104.2,
      "updated": "2026-06-30"
    }
  ]
}

Get one index

Returns the daily series plus the grounded spikes for one index.

curl -H "X-API-Key: flk_..." https://api.financelab.ai/api/v1/indexes/bank-stress

{
  "slug": "bank-stress",
  "name": "Bank / Financial Stress Index",
  "blurb": "Relevance-filtered media attention to banking and credit stress.",
  "baseline": 100,
  "current": 104.2,
  "updated": "2026-06-30",
  "series": [
    { "date": "2023-03-13", "attention": 318.6, "sentiment": -0.42, "stress": 0.61 }
  ],
  "spikes": [
    {
      "date": "2023-03-13",
      "value": 319,
      "headlines": [
        {
          "title": "Regulators close Silicon Valley Bank",
          "url": "https://example.com/svb",
          "source": "reuters.com"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Fields

• series - the daily index. Each point has a date, the attention value (100 = the historical average, frozen at end-2025), the day's average sentiment, and a stress sub-score.
• spikes - the prominent peaks, each with its date, value, and the top headlines (title, url, source) that drove it.
• current / updated - the latest value and the last day covered.

Tiers

Series depth is tier-gated, the same as the news feed: Free keys return the last 30 days, Pro returns the full history. See Tiers. Requests authenticate with the X-API-Key header - see Authentication.

The indices are also public and citable at financelab.ai/indexes.