Foreign Exchange · USD/CAD

US Dollar / Canadian Dollar (USD/CAD) Sentiment Analysis

Live news sentiment for US Dollar / Canadian Dollar — closely tied to crude oil prices and Bank of Canada policy. SentimentFX scores every USD/CAD headline with FinBERT and tracks how sentiment moves alongside price, updated hourly.

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What we track for USD/CAD

Every hour, SentimentFX collects the latest US Dollar / Canadian Dollar 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 USD/CAD price so you can see how news flow moves with the market.

US Dollar / Canadian Dollar is closely tied to crude oil prices and Bank of Canada policy, which makes USD/CAD an especially useful ticker for sentiment-driven analysis. Our pipeline pulls from FXStreet, ForexLive, DailyFX, ActionForex and Reddit alongside GNews search results, deduplicates by URL, and only stores headlines whose title actually mentions USD/CAD or a recognised alias.

Sentiment vs price correlation

The dashboard plots USD/CAD 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/USDCAD.

Developer access

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

USD/CAD sentiment FAQ

How is USD/CAD sentiment calculated?
SentimentFX scrapes US Dollar / Canadian Dollar 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 USD/CAD sentiment data updated?
The scraper runs every hour, pulling new USD/CAD headlines from GNews and forex RSS feeds (FXStreet, ForexLive, DailyFX). New sentiment scores are usually live within 1–2 minutes of scrape completion.
Can I correlate USD/CAD sentiment with its price?
Yes — the SentimentFX dashboard plots USD/CAD 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 USD/CAD sentiment data available via API?
Yes. The SentimentFX public API exposes /v1/sentiment/USDCAD, /v1/summary/USDCAD, /v1/prices/USDCAD and /v1/correlation/USDCAD endpoints. Authentication is via X-API-Key header. See the developer portal for full reference.