# US Economic Indicators (Treasury Yields, Fed Funds, Inflation, Employment)

> US Economic Indicators (Treasury Yields, Fed Funds, Inflation, Employment) is a paid API for AI agents from x402-agent-api.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Returns current US macroeconomic indicators — treasury yield curve, fed funds rate, inflation, and employment data — with optional monthly history up to 24 months.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402-agent-api.onrender.com/api/v1/economic-indicators?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-economic-indicators-treasury-yields-fed-funds-inflation-employment-7fd3f1ca
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lFX67HvAVba8Xgq5oJLo3

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 us-economic-indicators-treasury-yields-fed-funds-inflation-employment-7fd3f1ca -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the current US treasury yield curve, the fed funds effective rate, and the last 6 months of inflation history for me?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need current or recent historical US macroeconomic data — treasury yields, fed funds rate, inflation, or employment — without managing API keys or data subscriptions. Ideal for agents doing financial research, SEC filing analysis follow-up (e.g., after reading risk factors mentioning interest rate risk), investment analysis, or any workflow needing real-time macro context. Prefer over manual scraping of Treasury or Fed websites. Not suitable for international economic data, real-time tick data, or corporate financial metrics.

## Known failure modes

- Indicator data may be unavailable or null if source (BLS, Treasury) has not yet published latest release — returned in 'unavailable' array with reasons
- history_months exceeding 24 returns validation error
- Payment required (402) if USDC payment signature not included
- Empty indicators array fails minItems:1 validation
- Source APIs may be temporarily unavailable causing partial responses

## How this service works

Where US rates, inflation and jobs stand now, from official sources: Treasury par yield curve (1m to 30y, 10y-2y spread, inversion), BLS CPI and core CPI year over year, unemployment rate, nonfarm payrolls and monthly change, New York Fed effective fed funds rate and target range; optional monthly history. Not charged if no source answers. $0.003 USDC per call.

## Output

A JSON object with current values for requested indicators: treasury yield curve (1m through 30y maturities, inversion flag, 10y-2y spread), fed funds target range and effective rate, inflation figures, employment data, as-of timestamp, data source citations, unavailable indicator explanations, and suggested next API calls for follow-on research.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "indicators": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "enum": [
     "treasury_yields",
     "inflation",
     "employment",
     "fed_funds"
    ],
    "type": "string"
   },
   "minItems": 1,
   "description": "Which to return: treasury_yields, inflation, employment, fed_funds. Default: all four."
  },
  "history_months": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 0,
   "maximum": 24,
   "minimum": 0,
   "description": "Also return this many months of monthly history (inflation, employment, month-end 10-year and 2-year yields). Default 0."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "as_of": "2026-10-06T22:00:00.000Z",
  "sources": [
   {
    "url": "https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates",
    "name": "U.S. Treasury, daily par yield curve rates"
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/effr",
    "name": "Federal Reserve Bank of New York, EFFR"
   }
  ],
  "fed_funds": {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "target_range": "3.50-3.75",
   "effective_rate_percent": 3.64
  },
  "inflation": null,
  "employment": null,
  "next_calls": [
   {
    "why": "Which companies are warning about interest rates or inflation in their latest filings?",
    "tool": "sec_full_text_search",
    "price": "$0.01",
    "arguments": {
     "forms": [
      "10-Q"
     ],
     "limit": 10,
     "query": "\"interest rate risk\""
    }
   }
  ],
  "unavailable": [],
  "treasury_yields": {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "curve": {
    "1m": 3.95,
    "1y": 3.7,
    "2y": 3.55,
    "3m": 3.9,
    "5y": 3.68,
    "6m": 3.82,
    "10y": 4.05,
    "30y": 4.6
   },
   "inverted": false,
   "spread_10y_2y": 0.5
  },
  "unavailable_reasons": {}
 }
}
```

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