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SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Sentiment Analysis

Live news sentiment for SPDR S&P 500 ETF — the benchmark US large-cap ETF — sentiment proxies the broad US equity market. SentimentFX scores every SPY headline with FinBERT and tracks how sentiment moves alongside price, updated hourly.

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What we track for SPY

Every hour, SentimentFX collects the latest SPDR S&P 500 ETF news from major financial publishers and RSS feeds, then scores each headline using FinBERT — a transformer model fine-tuned on financial text. The output is a sentiment score between -1 (very bearish) and +1 (very bullish), and we plot the daily average against SPY price so you can see how news flow moves with the market.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF is the benchmark US large-cap ETF — sentiment proxies the broad US equity market, which makes SPY an especially useful ticker for sentiment-driven analysis. Our pipeline pulls from Yahoo Finance and other major financial newswires, deduplicates by URL, and only stores headlines whose title actually mentions SPY or a recognised alias.

Sentiment vs price correlation

The dashboard plots SPY sentiment against price on a single chart, with a rolling 180-day correlation analysis that reports Pearson r, p-value, a 95% confidence interval and a plain-English strength label (strong / weak / inconclusive). You can also pull the raw correlation via the public API endpoint /v1/correlation/SPY.

Developer access

All SPY sentiment, price and correlation data is available via the SentimentFX REST API. Generate a key on the developer portal, then call GET /v1/sentiment/SPY with an X-API-Key header. Free tier included, metered billing beyond that.

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SPY sentiment FAQ

How is SPY sentiment calculated?
SentimentFX scrapes SPDR S&P 500 ETF news headlines from major financial outlets every hour and scores each one with FinBERT, a finance-tuned transformer model. The score is the model's positive probability minus negative probability, giving a value between -1 (very bearish) and +1 (very bullish).
How often is SPY sentiment data updated?
The scraper runs every hour, pulling new SPY headlines from GNews and Yahoo Finance RSS feeds. New sentiment scores are usually live within 1–2 minutes of scrape completion.
Can I correlate SPY sentiment with its price?
Yes — the SentimentFX dashboard plots SPY sentiment against price on the same chart, and the correlation endpoint returns a Pearson r value, 95% confidence interval and strength label over a rolling 180-day window. You can also pull this via the public REST API at developers.sentimentfx.org.
Is SPY sentiment data available via API?
Yes. The SentimentFX public API exposes /v1/sentiment/SPY, /v1/summary/SPY, /v1/prices/SPY and /v1/correlation/SPY endpoints. Authentication is via X-API-Key header. See the developer portal for full reference.