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Currencies and foreign exchange news API

Exchange rates, devaluations, intervention and currency stress. Pass topic=ECON_WORLDCURRENCIES to filter.

969articles
552outlets
2per outlet

What does the currencies and foreign exchange topic actually cover?

Exchange-rate movements and commentary, central bank intervention, devaluations and currency crises, and the domestic consequences of each. Routine market commentary and genuine stress coverage sit in the same topic and read very differently.

How do I filter news to currencies and foreign exchange?

Pass topic=ECON_WORLDCURRENCIES on /search or /stories. Pair with a country. A currency is a national story with a global wire layer on top, and emerging-market currencies attract far more domestic-language coverage than developed ones — often the earliest coverage of a stress episode is in the local language and reaches English days later.

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GET /stories?topic=ECON_WORLDCURRENCIES&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with currencies and foreign exchange coverage?

Reading the constant baseline as signal. Financial outlets publish exchange-rate commentary on a fixed daily rhythm whether or not anything moved, so volume is close to flat and only the deviation carries information. This is the same structural problem as stock-market coverage and it catches people the same way.

Who publishes on it

Financial wires produce the continuous baseline. National business press adds the domestic consequence — import costs, fuel prices, foreign debt — which is usually the part that matters and is usually in the local language. Specialist emerging-market publications lead on stress episodes.

In the sample, 552 outlets carry currencies and foreign exchange coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is finanznachrichten.de at roughly 4%, and finanznachrichten.de, finanzen.net, finanzen.ch account for about 9% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best for detecting the onset of a stress episode and for tracking how a devaluation is being explained domestically. Weakest as a source for rates, which are market data and available as such, and weak for anything requiring a number: coverage reports a move after it has happened and frequently rounds or paraphrases it, so a series built on reported figures will disagree with the market data it is describing.

Monitoring it over time

Baseline against the daily commentary rhythm and alert on deviation. During a developing episode, watch local-language coverage rather than the wires: it moves first, it carries the domestic detail, and by the time the English wires escalate, the lead time has gone.

Which signals pair with currencies and foreign exchange?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

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GET /search?topic=ECON_WORLDCURRENCIES&signal=finance&signal_min=0.25

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Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

finanznachrichten.de · finanzen.net · finanzen.ch · wallstreet-online.de · aktiencheck.de · tickerreport.com · haberler.com · beurs.nl · riotimesonline.com · teleborsa.it · themarketsdaily.com · dailypolitical.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.