SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move opposite each other about 38% of the time
Light inverse
Weak relationship — not much actionable signal here beyond directional colour.
Netflix's relatively simple business model involves only one business, its streaming service. It has the biggest television entertainment subscriber base in both the United States and the collective international market, with more than 300 million subscribers globally. Netflix has exposure to nearly the entire global population outside of China. The firm has traditionally avoided a regular slate of live programming or sports content, instead focusing on on-demand access to episodic television, movies, and documentaries. The firm introduced ad-supported subscription plans in 2022, giving the firm exposure to the advertising market in addition to the subscription fees that have historically ac
Market cap 384.7B · 16,000 employees
St. Louis Financial Stress Index
STLFSI4
What to Watch
Drifting from pattern
Recent correlation (+10%) is running 1.3σ away from the long-run average of -38%.
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (-11%) and fall (-7%) — reliable in both directions.
Regime-dependent
The correlation has flipped sign across time windows — not reliable as a standalone signal.
Time Series
Time-Shifted Correlation
See how correlation changes when one series is offset in time. A taller bar at a non-zero shift means the two move together better when one leads the other — that's a potential lead/lag signal.
Correlation by shift
Click a bar to inspect. Range: -12 to 12 weeks.
Selected shift
No shift
Correlation at this shift
-38%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
260 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with St. Louis Financial Stress Index at original dates
Indexed to 100 at start
Deep Dive
Stability
How the correlation evolves over time. A stable line means the relationship is reliable; large swings signal regime-dependent behavior.
Corr
-38%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
-48% → -27%
Likely range
R²
14.5%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
37.8%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
260
Robust
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
260 paired data points survived the weekly window.
Raw input
1,255
1,687
Normalized
1,255
1,687
Prepared
261
1,687
Aligned
260
260
Invalid removed
Explore
The strongest positive and inverse pairs we’ve saved for each side of this comparison — good jumping-off points if this result raised a question.
Do They Crash Together?
How these series behave when markets are rising, falling, or diverging. A correlation that holds in drawdowns is very different from one that only works in rallies.
Both Rising
-11%
50 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-7%
42 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-51%
157 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
1,428
A: 1 / B: 1427
Series A
NetFlix Inc
NFLX
Market cap 384.7B · 16,000 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 261 prepared
Series B
STLFSI4
FRED · 1,687 raw → 1,687 prepared
Sign agreement
8.8%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
9
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-0.0041
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-0.2333
Linear regression intercept.
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STLFSI4
St. Louis Financial Stress Index
Strongest positive