Germany / France / Italy / Spain on one sheet — industrial production, producer prices, HICP and unemployment, every row read against the euro-area aggregate beside it
Germany / France / Italy / Spain on one sheet — industrial production, producer prices, HICP and unemployment, every row read against the euro-area aggregate beside it
Use it when: Euro-area data mornings, and any week the ECB decision is close enough to matter. This is the sheet that answers whether Europe is one story this quarter or four different ones.
Euro-area data is where the second-largest rate complex in the world gets repriced, and it reaches US futures twice: through the dollar leg, and through the export earnings of the S&P names that sell into Europe.
Second order, and worth knowing as a second order. A weak German print lifts the dollar, and a stronger dollar is a small headwind for the multinationals in the index - background, not a trigger.
Weaker still. The megacaps sell into Europe but their revenue lines move on their own cycle; use this desk for context on a European session that is dragging the tape, not as an NQ signal.
Euro-area industrial production is real demand for crude and gas. A run of contracting IP across Germany and Italy is a demand story that reaches the crack spreads before it reaches the headlines.
Presets in the menu bar, under the category this desk belongs to — one click applies the whole layout, and a checkmark tracks which one is active.Ctrl+P, which finds it by name.Add Panel menu.The tell: Four economies pulling in different directions with a flat aggregate is the setup one policy rate cannot solve. That is when periphery spreads start to matter more than the headline rate, and the Euro Desk board is where you go next.
This desk is built from dense sheet panels rather than individual tiles — see below.
Plus 1 dense sheet — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles: