// core glossary
The minimum vocabulary for reading l0g.
This is not yet a full translation of the French atlas. It is a compact English glossary for the concepts used most often in the English guides, API/MCP documentation and risk surfaces.
Consumer Price Index, the market-moving U.S. inflation release from the BLS.
Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, the inflation gauge targeted by the Federal Reserve.
Nonfarm payrolls, the headline job-creation figure in the U.S. Employment Situation report.
Job openings, hires, quits and layoffs: the flow view beneath the payroll headline.
The annual SEC report: business, risks, management discussion, audited financials and notes.
Quarterly long-position disclosure for large institutional investment managers.
Two-business-day disclosure of insider transactions by executives, directors and 10% holders.
Beneficial-ownership filings above 5%: activist intent versus passive holding.
The Treasury General Account at the Fed: when it fills, it drains reserves; when it spends, it releases cash.
Reverse repo facility, a money-market cash absorber and former liquidity buffer.
Secured Overnight Financing Rate, the transaction-based overnight Treasury repo benchmark.
Option-adjusted spread, the reference credit spread measure used by ICE BofA indices.
Implied volatility of S&P 500 options over roughly 30 days.
Implied volatility of Treasury options, the bond-market fear gauge.
U.S. Dollar Index, a narrow dollar basket heavily weighted toward the euro.
The hidden premium for synthetic dollar funding through FX swaps.
The European Union crypto-asset regulation covering EMTs, ARTs and CASPs.
The U.S. federal payment-stablecoin framework enacted in 2025.
U.S. sanctions enforcement and the list of blocked persons, entities and sometimes crypto addresses.
Total value locked in DeFi protocols, useful but prone to price effects and double counting.
Market value to realized value, an on-chain valuation ratio often used for Bitcoin cycle regimes.
Yellowcake uranium, the market unit quoted in dollars per pound.
The two dominant crude-oil benchmarks: maritime global Brent versus inland U.S. WTI.