The St. Louis Fed’s Financial Stress Index (STLFSI) is constructed using principal components analysis, which is similar to the construction of the Kansas City Fed’s FSI (KCFSI). Briefly, principal components analysis is a statistical method of extracting factors responsible for the comovement of a group of variables.
Interest Rates:
• Effective federal funds rate
• 2-year Treasury
• 10-year Treasury
• 30-year Treasury
• Baa-rated corporate
• Merrill Lynch High-Yield Corporate Master II Index
• Merrill Lynch Asset-Backed Master BBB-rated
Yield Spreads:
• Yield curve: 10-year Treasury minus 3-month Treasury
• Corporate Baa-rated bond minus 10-year Treasury
• Merrill Lynch High-Yield Corporate Master II Index minus 10-year Treasury
• 3-month London Interbank Offering Rate–Overnight Index Swap (LIBOR-OIS) spread
• 3-month Treasury-Eurodollar (TED) spread
• 3-month commercial paper minus 3-month Treasury bill
Other Indicators:
• J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Plus
• Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index (VIX)
• Merrill Lynch Bond Market Volatility Index (1-month)
• 10-year nominal Treasury yield minus 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Security yield (breakeven inflation rate)
• Vanguard Financials Exchange-Traded Fund (equities)
Original content Bob DeMarco, Look Beyond the Obvious
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