national_index

Get a St. Louis Fed national index: financial stress, price pressures, or nowcast.

Examples

from openbb import obb
# The St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index (weekly).
obb.federal_reserve.stl.national_index(index='financial_stress_index', provider='federal_reserve')
# The Price Pressures Measure (monthly).
obb.federal_reserve.stl.national_index(index='price_pressures', provider='federal_reserve')
# The Economic News Index real-GDP nowcast (quarterly).
obb.federal_reserve.stl.national_index(index='economic_news_index', provider='federal_reserve')

Parameters

• standard
• federal_reserve

index: str | None | list[str | None]
One or more indexes (columns) to return; the default returns all three: 'financial_stress_index' (STLFSI4, weekly), 'price_pressures' (STLPPM, monthly), and 'economic_news_index' (STLENI, quarterly). Multiple items allowed.

start_date: date | None | str
Start date of the data, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

end_date: date | None | str
End date of the data, in YYYY-MM-DD format.

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Returns

results: FederalReserveStLouisNationalIndex

Serializable results.

provider: str | None

Provider name.

warnings: Optional[list[Warning_]]

List of warnings.

chart: Optional[Chart]

Chart object.

extra: dict[str, Any]

Extra info.

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Data

• standard
• federal_reserve

date: date | str
The observation date.

financial_stress_index: float | None
St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index (STLFSI4, weekly).

price_pressures: float | None
St. Louis Fed Price Pressures Measure (STLPPM, monthly).

economic_news_index: float | None
St. Louis Fed Economic News Index real-GDP nowcast (STLENI, quarterly).