Financial Stress

The Financial Stress panel (internal id fsi) surfaces two parallel stress composites — one for the US, one for the EU — in a single reading so analysts can see when financial-market stress is co-moving across the two anchors.

What the panel shows

Two side-by-side readings:

• US KCFSI — Kansas City Fed Financial Stress Index: 11-indicator composite built from yield spreads, volatility, and cross-correlations. Positive values indicate above-average stress; negative values, below-average.
• EU FSI — ECB's EU Financial Stress Indicator.

Each reading includes:

• Current level with a label (Low Stress / Moderate Stress / Elevated Stress / High Stress).
• Colour-bucketed indicator — green (#27ae60) at Low, orange (#f39c12) at Moderate, burnt orange (#e67e22) at Elevated, and deep red (#c0392b) at High (fsiLabelColor() in src/components/FSIPanel.ts).
• Interpretation string explaining what the current level means for financial conditions (fsiInterpretation()).

Panel id is fsi; canonical component is src/components/FSIPanel.ts. Title from i18n; config name: "Financial Stress".

How you reach it

• Cmd+K: type fsi, financial stress, or kcfsi.
• Availability by variant: registered in the full/geopolitical variant (disabled by default — opt-in, enabled: false, priority: 2) and enabled by default in the finance variant (priority: 1). Not present in the tech, commodity, or happy variants. Source: 'fsi' entries in FULL_PANELS (:108-ish) and FINANCE_PANELS of src/config/panels.ts.

Data sources

The panel uses generated RPC clients directly and prefers bootstrap-hydrated values before fresh calls.

Reading	Method + route	Feeds
US KCFSI	GET /api/market/v1/get-fear-greed-index	KCFSI value and market-stress inputs from the Fear & Greed payload; bootstrap-first via fearGreedIndex.
EU FSI	GET /api/economic/v1/get-eu-fsi	ECB CISS SS_CIN latest value and history; bootstrap-first via euFsi.

Upstream KCFSI data is from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; EU FSI is from the ECB CISS SS_CIN daily series, the live successor to the legacy SS_CI series.

EU FSI label buckets follow the seeded CISS value directly:

ECB CISS SS_CIN value	Label
< 0.2	Low Stress
>= 0.2 and < 0.4	Moderate Stress
>= 0.4 and < 0.6	Elevated Stress
>= 0.6	High Stress

Refresh cadence

Weekly for KCFSI (published by KC Fed). EU FSI is seeded daily from the ECB CISS SS_CIN daily series. The panel reads the hydrated snapshot on mount; no polling.

Tier & gating

Free. No premium flag in either variant registration. Both backing RPCs are public.

API reference

• Economic service — includes GetEuFsi and the broader macro family.
• Markets service — includes the KCFSI series.