# Heurist Mesh – Yahoo Finance Market Overview

> Heurist Mesh – Yahoo Finance Market Overview is a paid API for AI agents from mesh.heurist.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns the market-open/closed status and a compact benchmark summary (indices, key movers) for a specified Yahoo Finance market region.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mesh.heurist.xyz/x402/agents/YahooFinanceAgent/market_overview
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/heurist-mesh-yahoo-finance-market-overview-2afedb44
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_w-M5_AE0kqOKVVVaSZia1

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 heurist-mesh-yahoo-finance-market-overview-2afedb44 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Is the US stock market open right now, and can you give me a quick benchmark summary of the major indices for the US Yahoo Finance region?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, real-time snapshot of market open/close status and benchmark indices for a specific Yahoo Finance region. Prefer it over general web search for structured, reliable market status data. Use it when you need a compact summary rather than deep historical analysis or individual stock quotes.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or invalid market region identifier returns an error
- Yahoo Finance data source unavailable causes a timeout or empty response
- Querying outside of any market session may return limited benchmark data
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the request via x402 protocol

## How this service works

Return market-open status and a compact benchmark summary for one supported Yahoo market region.

## Output

Returns a structured response indicating whether the specified Yahoo Finance market region is currently open or closed, along with a compact summary of benchmark indices and key market metrics for that region (e.g., major index levels, performance indicators).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/heurist-mesh-yahoo-finance-market-overview-2afedb44/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mesh.heurist.xyz](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mesh.heurist.xyz/llms.txt)