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Data sources and credits

Every number on this site comes from one of these sources. Events are checked every minute and index data every half hour.

SourceTerms
FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
How we use it

We use three series: the St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index (STLFSI4) and the 10-year minus 2-year Treasury spread (T10Y2Y), which FRED marks as copyrighted with citation required, and WTI crude oil (DCOILWTICO, from the US Energy Information Administration), which is public domain. Each is cited here and on its index page. Check FRED's terms before any commercial use. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Citation required; some series are copyrighted by their original owner
European Central Bank via Frankfurter
How we use it

Euro foreign exchange reference rates (against the dollar, pound, zloty, krona, franc, koruna and krone) published by the European Central Bank, served by the open-source Frankfurter API. Source: ECB.

ECB reference rates, free reuse with attribution
CoinGecko
How we use it

Bitcoin prices in euros. Data provided by CoinGecko.

Free public API, attribution required
Alpha Vantage
How we use it

Daily prices for the SPY fund, used only to measure how far US stocks are below their recent high. Needs a licence check before any commercial use.

Free API key, check terms before commercial use
US Geological Survey
How we use it

Earthquake catalog. US government work in the public domain.

Public domain
NASA EONET
How we use it

Natural events tracked from satellite and agency data. NASA data is not copyrighted in the United States.

Public domain
The GDELT Project
How we use it

Counts of news reports and lists of headlines with links. We show headlines and link to the original articles; we never copy article text. Data from the GDELT Project (gdeltproject.org).

Free for any use, with citation
Cloudflare Radar
How we use it

Internet outage annotations, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. Because of the non-commercial licence, this source switches itself off whenever a sponsor is shown on the site.

CC BY-NC 4.0
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
How we use it

The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: software flaws the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has confirmed attackers are using. US government work in the public domain.

US government work, public domain

News headlines

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Newsreader, by Production Type, under the SIL Open Font License. Schibsted Grotesk, by Schibsted Media, under the SIL Open Font License. Both are served from this site, not from a third party.