Funding Spreads & Repo Stress API

The money-market spreads that signal whether US dollar funding is calm or seizing up, computed live from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's public rates API — no key, nothing stored. The headline overnight rates all sit within a few basis points of each other when markets are healthy; it is the spreads between them, and their spikes, that reveal stress. The most-watched is SOFR minus EFFR: SOFR is the cost of secured (collateralised, repo) borrowing and EFFR the cost of unsecured fed-funds borrowing, so when SOFR climbs above EFFR it means collateral is suddenly expensive — the classic repo-stress signal that blew out in September 2019 and around quarter-ends. This API computes that and the other key spreads — SOFR vs the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, SOFR vs the Broad General Collateral Rate, and the general-vs-tri-party collateral spread — in basis points, with a funding-stress regime read. The spreads endpoint returns the live rate board and every spread; the distribution endpoint returns SOFR's intraday percentile spread (99th minus 1st), a within-day dispersion gauge that widens when funding is segmented; the history endpoint returns the time series of any spread and counts the stress days. This is the funding-stress / money-market-spread cut — distinct from the raw NY-Fed rate-level feed (which lists the rates but not the spreads or the stress signal), the central-bank-policy and the yield-curve APIs. It is the gap between the rates, which is where the stress lives.