StationFX
Weekly count of new unemployment insurance claims — the most timely labor market indicator available. Released every Thursday, one week lag. First sign of labor market deterioration. Use for real-time recession monitoring and NFP forecasting. Weekly frequency with full derived metrics.
Offering
- Provider
- stationfx.com
- Method
- GET
- Offering type
- Api Endpoint
- Transport type
- http
- Category
- Financial Analysis
- Delivery
- Not provided
- Pricing model
- Not provided
- x402 version
- 2
Endpoint context
- URL
https://stationfx.com/economic-data/labor/initial-claims- MIME type
- application/json
- First seen
- 2026-10-16T01:50:38.788Z
- Last seen
- Tags
- economic-data, time-series, fred, X402, USDC
Payment pricing
x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.
- Payment option 1
- 0.005 USDC
Atomic price: 5000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact - Payment option 2
- 0.005 USDC
Atomic price: 5000 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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]Observed health
- Status
- Healthy
- Latest latency
- 106 ms
- Average latency
- 367 ms
- HTTP status
- 402
- Last checked
- Reachability
- 100% over 14 checks
Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.
Input schema
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