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Data Sources — FRED, Market Data & Prediction Markets

12+ data sources including FRED, Yahoo Finance, ECB, SEC EDGAR, GDELT, and prediction markets. Premium data sources available on demand.

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Overview

StressGen grounds every scenario in live economic, market, news, filings and prediction-market data.

Economic Data

Economic data provides the foundation for scenario generation. These sources deliver up-to-date macroeconomic indicators that help the AI understand current economic conditions and calibrate shock magnitudes accordingly.

  • FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) — The primary source for US economic indicators — GDP growth, unemployment rate, inflation, Treasury yields, and hundreds of other series maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
  • FED (Federal Reserve) — Direct Federal Reserve data including policy statements, meeting minutes context, and official economic projections.
  • ECB (European Central Bank) — European economic data including Eurozone GDP, inflation, and ECB policy rate information.

News & Search

News sources provide current events context that helps the AI understand the market narrative surrounding your scenario. Recent headlines and analysis influence how the AI interprets your scenario description.

  • Tavily (News & Web Research) — AI-optimized search engine that finds the most relevant financial news articles and broader web research for your scenario topic.
  • GDELT — Global news coverage from the GDELT Project, providing broad international news monitoring with no API key required.

Market Data

Market data sources provide real-time and historical prices for stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies. This data establishes the baseline values that shocks are measured against.

  • Yahoo Finance — Real-time and historical prices for equities, ETFs, indices, commodities, and currency pairs.

Prediction Markets

Prediction markets aggregate crowd-sourced probability estimates for future events. These provide a market-based signal for the likelihood of specific economic outcomes.

  • Kalshi — US-regulated prediction market offering probabilities on economic events, Fed rate decisions, and market milestones.
  • Polymarket — Decentralized prediction market covering a wide range of economic and geopolitical events.

Premium Data Sources

Premium data sources are available on demand. Contact us to add them.