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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.

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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”.

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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.

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Data sources

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

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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.

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Tier & gating

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

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