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Excess Bond Premium

What it is

Excess Bond Premium — registry key ebp.

Federal Reserve Excess Bond Premium ingested from the monthly FEDS Notes CSV and persisted on daily_signals for future scoring / matcher use. NOT yet a health-score or alignment component — the score wiring is a later, separately-gated step.

Source

Source module: ebp
Data source: back_fillable

Fetched directly from app/sources/ebp.py; see source code for the upstream API call and any provider-specific handling.

How it’s computed

Gilchrist-Zakrajšek (2012) Excess Bond Premium: the residual of the GZ corporate credit spread after removing the component predicted by expected default risk (firm-level distance-to-default and bond characteristics). A positive EBP means investors demand compensation above expected credit losses (risk aversion / tighter credit supply); a negative EBP means credit is priced cheap relative to fundamentals. Sourced verbatim from the Fed’s monthly FEDS Notes ebp_csv.csv ebp column (percentage points), last row. See app/sources/ebp.py.

Where it surfaces

Health-score / alignment role

Data carrier — no implication, no health-score contribution.

Persisted for downstream consumers (sparklines, base-rate matcher, calibration substrate) but does not classify into BULLISH / NEUTRAL / BEARISH and does not contribute to the 0-100 health score.

Release cadence

Federal Reserve FEDS-notes monthly Excess Bond Premium CSV (ebp_csv.csv); the Fed refreshes the file roughly once per month, last row is the latest month dated YYYY-MM-01.

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