Caravan: a global markets dashboard

Most finance dashboards take a clear position: they are made for someone who sits in front of a terminal all day, with ten windows open, waiting on notifications. Caravan takes a different one. Five synchronised panels that give the read of the day on the markets in a few minutes, meant to be opened once or twice, not lived in.

Caravan Overview page in light mode. Left sidebar with Overview, Macro, Markets, Events, Outlook and a Snapshot 19 May 2026 footer. Top of frame reads Today's regime, followed by a large headline: Risk-off. Trade truce expiring, geopolitics elevated, dollar weak across G10. Six KPI cards underneath show US Interest Rate 4.13 percent set by the Fed, US Inflation 2.6 percent target 2 percent, US Growth 1.8 percent annual GDP, US Jobless Rate 4.2 percent of the labor force, Manufacturing 49.8 below 50 shrinking, Market Fear 22.8 VIX elevated. Below, a Global tensions panel with a dotted world map and 22 active conflict and policy flux markers. To the right, a Top files panel ranked by severity plus recency lists US–China 90-day tariff truce nears expiration, Israel–Iran direct strikes resume after 6-month pause, Houthi missile barrage targets Red Sea shipping lane, Sudan RSF advance on El Fasher. — The first thing the product shows. Top of the page, the verdict of the day in plain language. Below, six leading indicators with the trend at a glance. On the left, the world map of tensions; on the right, the news panel ordered by severity.

Five panels, one read

Macro. Where the global cycle is. Inflation deviation country by country, yield curves, central bank stance, employment. One page that tells you which economies are still hot, which are at target, which are slipping.

Central banks. Who is hiking, who is cutting, who is holding. Eight gauges that read the stance against each bank assumed neutral, the latest move written underneath.

Markets. Equity, bonds, FX, commodities, crypto on one page. Six tiles up top with current value and YTD variation, a single chart ranking forty-plus tickers below.

Active conflicts. The geopolitics that moves prices. A dotted world map with markers on the hotspots, the conflict list ordered by intensity.

Scenarios. The synthesis. Four structural themes that matter now and three scenarios for the next two quarters with their first-order impact on assets.

The panels share one timestamp. The read has to be coherent, not an aggregate of misaligned prices.

Caravan Macro page in light mode. Top breadcrumb CARAVAN · SNAPSHOT 2026-05-19, page title Macro briefing, lede about four readings on the global cycle. Section overline INFLATION, title The last mile sticks. Dot plot shows deviation from the 2 percent target by country: BR +2.8pp, IN +2.2pp, GB +0.7pp, US +0.6pp, JP +0.4pp, CA +0.2pp, EU 0.0pp, CN -1.7pp. KPI strip below: US deviation 0.6pp, EU deviation 0.0pp, reference target 2.0 percent. Next section starts: SOVEREIGN CURVES, title Front flat, long re-pricing. — On the Macro page, inflation deviation from the 2% target country by country, in a single dot plot. Which economies are still hot, which are at target, which are slipping, all in one glance.

Caravan Macro page deeper view in light mode. Section overline CENTRAL BANKS, title Eight banks, eight tones. Description: needle points to stance, where each bank sits versus its assumed neutral rate. Eight gauge dials laid out in two rows show: FED 4.13 percent Hawkish -25bp, ECB 2.25 percent Neutral -25bp, BOE 4.25 percent Hawkish -25bp, BOJ 0.50 percent Dovish +25bp, PBOC 1.30 percent Dovish -10bp, BOC 2.75 percent Neutral -25bp, SNB 0.25 percent Neutral -25bp, RBA 3.85 percent Hawkish -25bp. Below: section GROWTH AND LABOR, title The Phillips quadrant, with a quadrant chart preview marked Overheating and Stagflation. — Eight central banks rendered as eight gauges. The dial shows where each policy rate sits today, the label below names the last move and its direction. The global rate landscape in one row.

Caravan Markets page in light mode. Page title Markets, lede on the defensive regime with dollar broadly weak across G10, gold bid on safe-haven flow, crude soft on China demand fears, equities offered into the trade-truce expiry. Section overline TODAY'S READ, title Cross-asset signals. Six KPI cards in a row with inline sparklines: SPX 5,920 +7.28 percent, US10Y 4.470 +5.72 percent, DXY 99.40 +3.52 percent in red, Gold 3,210 -0.98 percent in red, Brent 66.10 +1.19 percent, BTC 103,400 +18.59 percent. Section PERFORMANCE, title YTD ranking, all tradables begins below with the first horizontal bars visible: SILVER, DAX, HSI. — The Markets page is the densest in the product. Six tiles up top, one per asset class, each with current value, year-to-date variation and a 60-day sparkline. Equity, rates, FX, commodities, crypto, all on the same row.

Caravan Markets page deeper view in light mode. Full YTD ranking horizontal bar chart with more than 40 tradables sorted from best to worst across equity, commodity and crypto. Top of frame: SILVER +19.0 percent, DAX +15.2 percent, HSI +11.0 percent, BTC +9.8 percent, IBOV +9.8 percent, GOLD +8.4 percent, XRP +7.3 percent, COPPER +5.7 percent, CAC +5.4 percent, WHEAT +2.6 percent, SENSEX +2.3 percent, FTSE +1.8 percent, SHCOMP +1.2 percent. Crossover to negatives: SPX -2.2 percent, NDX -2.7 percent, NKY -3.5 percent, NATGAS -3.0 percent, RTY -8.3 percent, BNB -8.5 percent, BRENT -9.7 percent, WTI -11.5 percent, ETH -13.5 percent, SOL -13.8 percent, ADA -25.0 percent, AVAX -30.8 percent, DOGE -41.0 percent. Legend at the bottom: Equity, Commodity, Crypto. Next section AT A GLANCE, title Cross-asset matrix begins below. — Below the tiles, a single chart ranks forty-plus tradeables on the year, coloured by sign and sorted best to worst. Equity, commodities, crypto on the same axis.

Design choices

Editorial voice, not raw data. Each panel carries a synthetic read on top of the numbers. The macro regime panel does not just show the percentages, it spells out in two lines what they mean for the day. The product reads more like an editorial than a terminal.

No alerts, no notifications. Caravan opens when the reader chooses. Nothing flashes, nothing buzzes, nothing pings. The opposite of a Bloomberg desk, where attention is pulled constantly.

Terminal density, broadsheet typography. Full screen width, six indicators in the first view without scrolling. IBM Plex Sans on the prose, IBM Plex Mono on the numbers. Fixed-width digits make three columns of prices line up one under the other, the way they do in a financial broadsheet.

Two themes, designed together. Light and dark are not the same surface with one colour swapped for another. Both were designed at the same time: greens stay confident on black, reds stay legible on white, dividers stay quiet on either ground.

Caravan Outlook page in light mode. Page title Outlook, lede on synthesis, where the data suggests capital should rotate, what themes are running, scenarios pricing into the curve. Section overline PERFORMANCE, title Asset class matrix. Heatmap shows five asset classes (Equity SPX, Rates US10Y, FX DXY, Commodity Gold, Crypto BTC) across four periods (1D, MTD, YTD, 1Y). Below, two side-by-side panels. Left WORKING: Top 8 YTD with green bars: 01 Silver +19.0 percent, 02 DAX +15.2 percent, 03 Hang Seng +11.0 percent, 04 Bitcoin +9.8 percent, 05 Bovespa +9.8 percent, 06 Gold +8.4 percent, 07 XRP +7.3 percent, 08 Copper +5.7 percent. Right NOT WORKING: Bottom 8 YTD with red bars: 01 Dogecoin -41.0 percent, 02 Avalanche -30.8 percent, 03 Cardano -25.0 percent, 04 Solana -13.8 percent, 05 Ethereum -13.5 percent, 06 WTI Crude -11.5 percent, 07 Brent Crude -9.7 percent, 08 BNB -8.5 percent. — On the Outlook page, the heatmap at the top reads each asset class across one day, one month, year-to-date and one year, side by side. Below, the two leaderboards: what is working YTD on the left, what is not on the right.

Caravan Events page in light mode. Page title Events, lede on geopolitics, central banks, tariffs, sanctions and what is moving capital allocation today and over the next quarter. Section overline GEOPOLITICS, title Active conflict hotspots. A dotted world map fills the frame, with subtle markers across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and East Asia. Beneath the map the conflict list begins: Ukraine status CEASEFIRE TALKS, frontline static along Donetsk axis, talks resumed Doha 12 May. Israel–Iran status ESCALATING, direct strikes resumed 10 May after 6-month pause. — Geopolitics gets a page of its own. A dotted world map with markers on the active hotspots, then a list of conflicts with status badges (Ceasefire talks, Escalating, Active, Frozen) and one-line context. The picture sits inside the dashboard, not somewhere else.

Caravan Events page deeper view in light mode. Full active conflict list with status badges next to each name: Ukraine CEASEFIRE TALKS, Israel–Iran ESCALATING, Gaza ACTIVE, Yemen civil ACTIVE, Sudan ESCALATING, Haiti ESCALATING. Each row shows latitude and longitude and a one-line context note: sustained urban operations in Gaza, ceasefire mediation stalled. Houthi consolidation north, humanitarian collapse persists. RSF closing on El Fasher, famine risk in Darfur corridor. Gang coalition controls 80 percent of Port-au-Prince. Secondary list: Lebanon ACTIVE Red Sea shipping, Sahel (Mali/BF) ACTIVE Niger, Ethiopia ESCALATING DRC east, Taiwan Strait ESCALATING Myanmar, Mexico cartels ACTIVE Syria, Cabo Delgado ACTIVE Nigeria-BH, Korean DMZ ACTIVE Kashmir, Essequibo ACTIVE Colombia-ELN. Section CENTRAL BANKS, title Upcoming rate decisions begins below. — Fourteen active hotspots, ordered by intensity. On each row: the name, a status badge in the right tone (red for escalating, amber for active, neutral for frozen), coordinates and a one-line context. The map above shares the same source.

Caravan Outlook page deeper view in light mode. Section title What's running. Four theme cards in a two-by-two grid: COMPUTE AI capex, hyperscaler capex run-rate above 290B annualized after Blackwell ramps, GPU supply tight but easing, cloud margins inflecting, +34 percent YoY. DECARBONIZATION Energy transition, EU CBAM enforcement begins Q3 2026, US clean-energy credits intact post-tariff regime, China BEV growth slowing to mid-teens, 6 sectors. SECURITY Defense, EU rearmament cycle accelerates after Bundestag election, US base spending +6 percent YoY, European defense ETFs +18 percent YTD, +18 percent. INDUSTRIAL POLICY Reshoring, Liberation Day tariffs accelerate friendshoring to Mexico, India, Vietnam, US advanced-manufacturing capex +14 percent YoY, +14 percent. Below: PRICING IN section, title Scenarios for next two quarters. Tri-band probability selector with Soft landing 45 percent, Inflation re-acceleration 30 percent, Geopolitical shock 25 percent. Three scenario cards detail first-order asset impacts: Soft landing inflation glides to 2 percent by Q4 with US equities and IG credit tighter, USD gradual weakness. Inflation re-acceleration tariff pass-through. Geopolitical shock Taiwan strait or Iran escalation. Disclaimer band at the bottom noting that Caravan is a research-grounded design demo with mock data, not investment advice. — The synthesis. Four structural themes (AI capex, energy transition, defense, reshoring), each with a number that says why the theme matters now. Below, three scenarios for the next two quarters with their first-order impact on assets. The footer is the honest line: research-grounded mock data, not investment advice.

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