# Alephant Finance News Report Service

> Alephant Finance News Report Service is a paid API for AI agents from pay.alephant.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches real-time finance news and returns a formatted English Markdown report with up to 10 results, optionally with deep content retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://pay.alephant.io/x402/finance-news-report-service
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alephant-finance-news-report-service-49de3c3e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HC5ClRrzZd-qjeMB7-qqB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability alephant-finance-news-report-service-49de3c3e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the top 5 finance news stories right now and give me a full detailed report — make sure to do the deep fetch so I get the complete content?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs a ready-made, formatted Markdown finance news report without having to scrape or aggregate sources manually. Ideal for agents that need to present financial news digests to users quickly, especially when full article content is needed via deep_fetch. Prefer over generic web search when structured, paid, reliable finance-specific output is required.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream news sources unavailable — empty or partial report returned
- limit out of range (must be 1–10) — validation error
- Payment not processed — 402 Payment Required before content is served
- deep_fetch timeout if remote articles are slow to respond

## How this service works

Fetches real finance news and returns an English Markdown report.

## Output

A formatted English Markdown report containing up to 10 real finance news items, with either basic headlines/summaries (default) or expanded full-content articles when deep_fetch is enabled.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1,
   "examples": [
    3
   ],
   "description": "The maximum number of results to return or process."
  },
  "deep_fetch": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "default": false,
   "description": "When true, enables deeper data fetching or expanded retrieval. When false, only basic fetching is performed."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/alephant-finance-news-report-service-49de3c3e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from pay.alephant.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/pay.alephant.io/llms.txt)