Sovereign Debt workspace

Government debt to GDP on one sheet — the G7, Spain + Korea, the big emerging markets and the euro-area aggregate, IMF WEO; the stock side of the sovereign trio, same economies row for row as the fiscal + current-account boards

Use it when: When a sovereign story is building - an auction going badly, a rating review, a currency under pressure - and you want the level rather than the headline.

Annual IMF data. Nothing here prints intraday and nothing here is a trade. It is the frame you read the auction tape and the fiscal balance against, which is why it sits with those two boards rather than on a trading desk.

• 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.
• Or the command palette on Ctrl+P, which finds it by name.
• Or ask the ship for it: show me sovereign.
• Every panel can be re-pointed at another symbol from its own header, and anything the desk does not open is in the Add Panel menu.

• 1. The G7 rows first, because they set the reference for what a high number even means.
• 2. The emerging markets underneath, where the same ratio carries far more risk because the debt is not all in their own currency.
• 3. The euro-area aggregate last, as the check on whether one member's number is a bloc problem or its own.

The tell: The level matters less than the trajectory and the currency the debt is issued in. A country borrowing in its own currency at 200% and a country borrowing in dollars at 80% are not the same risk, and this is the board where that comparison is made honestly.

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:

• Sovereign Debt / GDP

• All workspace presets — how docking, link groups and saved layouts work.
• Panel reference — what each panel shows, column by column.