Changelog

15 October 202620:03auslieferung-20261015-2003

GDPNow (Atlanta Fed) in the economic calendar

Added

• Economic calendar: the GDPNow nowcast of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta next to the advance GDP release, clearly labelled as a model estimate, with the Bank named and linked.

Improved

• The day view of the monthly calendar now also explains a nowcast and names its source.
• The methodology page explains how the GDPNow value is chosen.

15 October 202619:34auslieferung-20261015-1934

Oil and LNG through the Strait of Hormuz and seven more chokepoints (U.S. EIA)

Added

• Strait of Hormuz page: the oil and LNG flowing through the strait, by quarter and year (U.S. EIA estimates from tanker tracking), compared with the same quarter a year earlier and as a share of world oil supply.
• Macro Terminal: clicking one of eight chokepoints (Hormuz, Malacca, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, the Danish and Turkish Straits, Panama, Cape of Good Hope) shows its oil and LNG flows with a quarterly chart.
• DESK AI can answer questions about oil and LNG through these chokepoints.

Improved

• The methodology page explains the new figures.

Fixed

• Chokepoint details no longer mention IMF PortWatch where no PortWatch figures are shown.

15 October 202618:09auslieferung-20261015-1809

Company logos refresh as soon as they change

Fixed

• A changed company logo shows right away instead of the one the browser kept for a week

15 October 202618:02auslieferung-20261015-1802

Search finds every company and shows company logos instead of flags

Improved

• Companies in the terminal search and company tables show their logo instead of the country flag (country in the tooltip; letter tile while it loads or without a logo)

Fixed

• Terminal search finds every company of the Companies map (Interactive Brokers was missing)
• Interactive Brokers shows its real logo instead of the plain grey wordmark

15 October 202617:05auslieferung-20261015-1705

Interactive Brokers and four more US-listed firms now show their SEC figures

Fixed

• US companies without an SEC number in Wikidata now get their SEC figures: the number is taken from the SEC ticker list, strictly (US exchange, matching name, number not used elsewhere) - Interactive Brokers, Kodak, Wiley, Santander, Bradesco

15 October 202615:32auslieferung-20261015-1532

Custom dashboard: widgets appear instantly; widgets now find their tile in every language

Improved

• Custom dashboard appears instantly: each widget shows its last state right away (kept in this browser, deleted on sign-out) while the live widget loads behind it and takes over seamlessly

Fixed

• Widgets created in one language found their tile in the other only after up to 40 seconds or not at all (e.g. Radar "Most recent", Recovery) and held up the other widgets
• Journal month calendar as a widget showed the year tile when the language differed

15 October 202614:24auslieferung-20261015-1424

Second test round done – all payment and commission paths green; German price format in settings

Fixed

• Subscription prices in the settings follow the language: 99,00 € on German pages instead of €99.00

15 October 202612:20auslieferung-20261015-1220

Partner programme fully tested with real sandbox purchases – partner invitation, safer payouts, password page fix

Added

• Partner invitation: adding a partner without a DESK account creates the account and emails a link to set the password (valid 14 days, EN/DE); "Invite again" in the admin list
• Admin notice when a new partner's account still has a paid subscription

Improved

• Payouts confirm exactly the items and amount shown on screen – if a commission was released or refunded in between, nothing is booked and the admin is asked to check the new amount
• Partner emails (statement, payment confirmation, platinum, invitation) take replies at contact@ instead of noreply@
• Ended partners keep their partner area: statements, open items, payout details
• A friend whose first payment was refunded no longer counts as referred
• Partner area names "the payment provider's fee" instead of the provider

Fixed

• Password pages (reset, partner invitation) were downloaded as a file in browsers instead of being shown
• Admin messages after adding a partner or confirming a payout were invisible
• Suspected self-referral by the same card now also triggers the Telegram notice
• A payment in a currency other than EUR is no longer booked as euros (booked from the EUR payout amount, otherwise reported)

15 October 202609:40auslieferung-20261015-0940

Partner payouts: open items, tax status per partner, invoice or statement, payout table, Telegram reminder

Added

• Partner area: "Open commission" lists every commission individually (date, payment, net, rate, amount, released or "from" date) with the payout deadline, plus an overview PDF to invoice from.
• Partners choose their tax status (private person, small business, VAT-registered in Germany, business in another EU country or outside the EU) and how they are paid: a statement from DESK or their own invoice. Statements and overviews state the VAT treatment that fits, including reverse charge for businesses abroad.
• Partners who invoice: DESK records their invoice number on payout, files a payment confirmation (own number series DESK-AZ, so statements stay gapless) and emails it to them.
• Developer settings: payouts as a table – partners to pay this month on top (amount, billing, tax status, IBAN, preview, confirm), everyone else below with released and pending amounts.
• Telegram reminder to the operator on the 1st and again on the 8th if payouts are still open (count, total and deadline only).

Fixed

• Saving payout details without re-entering the IBAN no longer deletes the stored IBAN.

15 October 202609:06auslieferung-20261015-0906

Partner statements: numbered, archived, emailed and downloadable

Added

• Partner programme: confirming a payout now creates the numbered statement (self-billed invoice, DESK-GS-year-number), stores it permanently and emails it to the partner with the PDF attached.
• Partner area: new "Statements" list – every statement as a PDF download (own statements only).
• Developer settings: "Statements (archive)" with every confirmed payout, its PDF and whether the email went out; the old statement button is now clearly a preview without number.

15 October 202607:56auslieferung-20261015-0756

Partner terms online, privacy and terms updated, partner statements redesigned

Added

• Partner programme terms are online at deskalmanac.com/partner-terms (English and German), including the Platinum Partner tier; linked from the partner area.
• Privacy policy: new section "Partner and referral programme" (the 60-day referral marker, what partners can and cannot see, abuse checks, payout data). Terms of use, section 10: "Referrals" (€10 off for the new customer, €20 credit for the member, never paid out). Both note that the programme has not started yet.

Improved

• Partner statements (self-billed invoices) redesigned: DESK mark, clear sender and recipient blocks, German dates, right-aligned amounts, a highlighted payout total and the issuer's tax number in the footer once it is available.

15 October 202607:34auslieferung-20261015-0734

Radar: sanctions only count for the countries involved; region names without disambiguation suffix

Fixed

• Radar, sanctions and blockades: an event now only counts for a country if that country is one of the parties. The US sanctions against the International Criminal Court had pushed Italy to the top (z 8.5), because GDELT places the story in Rome via the "Rome Statute"; France, Germany and South Africa got the same story. Blockades without named parties count as before.
• Administrative regions: Wikidata disambiguation suffixes are dropped from capitals and parties ("Artashat (Armenia)" → "Artashat", "Faro (city)" → "Faro"); meaningful ones such as "(Queensland Branch)" stay. The nightly comparison no longer reports such a suffix as a difference.

14 October 202619:57auslieferung-20261014-1957

Reminder email after 14 days without a visit – once per break, can be switched off

Added

• Reminder after a break: a member who has not opened DESK for 14 days gets one short email – when they were last there, what is new in DESK since then (up to three points) and the latest weekly report. Once per break, at most every 30 days, in English or German. The first reminders can go out from 28 October.
• Settings › Emails: new switch "Reminder after a break" (on by default); every reminder has a one-click unsubscribe link.

14 October 202618:26auslieferung-20261014-1826

Special report fixed – broken AI answers are unpacked

Fixed

• Special reports: when the AI returned the sections of a report as packed text (all later sections inside the first one, with missing brackets), the build failed with "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'titel')". DESK now unpacks such answers and puts every section back in its place; the China special report of 14 October builds again.

14 October 202617:06auslieferung-20261014-1706

Key US releases (CPI, jobs, Fed …) now appear instantly as Official data – in news, radar and Telegram

Added

• Key US releases appear instantly as "Official data": CPI, PPI, jobs report, GDP, core PCE, retail sales, JOLTS, the Fed rate decision and the Fed minutes. DESK reads the figure from the agency in the minute of release (BLS, BEA, Census, Federal Reserve) and puts it at the top of the news stream and into the radar, highlighted in gold, in English and German – instead of waiting up to two hours for the first news headlines.
• The DESK Alerts Telegram channels post these releases right away (official figure, time, source link, no AI). On days with a key release, the AI news selection keeps one of the five daily slots free.

Improved

• News headlines about such releases (inflation, producer prices, jobs report, GDP, retail sales, central bank decisions and minutes) are highlighted in gold in the news page, the Macro news tile and the radar, like supply & infrastructure. Previews ("ahead of", "braces for") stay grey.

14 October 202616:05auslieferung-20261014-1605

Platinum Partner tier with progress bar – partner programme still off

Added

• Partner programme: Platinum Partner tier. The partner area now opens with a progress bar towards 10 active paying customers ("7 of 10 active paying customers – 3 more to go"); from 10 on the partner is a Platinum Partner and gets 30 % instead of 20 % on all of their customers' payments in that month.
• A one-time congratulations email (EN/DE) when a partner reaches Platinum for the first time.

Improved

• Every referred customer with a running, paid subscription counts towards Platinum – also after their 12 commission months. Once reached in a month, Platinum applies to the whole month.
• Refunds remove the payment from the Platinum count as well.

14 October 202606:21auslieferung-20261014-0621

UN Population licence confirmed - licence links and attribution updated

Improved

• Sources: every open licence (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, ODbL, Etalab, Open Government Licence) now links to its licence text; the UN population data (World Population Prospects, World Urbanization Prospects, International Migrant Stock) note where DESK calculated shares and changes, as the UN Population Division asked when confirming commercial use.

13 October 202621:24auslieferung-20261013-2124

Monthly summary built - sample ready for approval, still switched off

Added

• Monthly summary for members (switched on after approval): at the start of each month an email with the markets, the main releases, what the next month brings, three situations from DESK Radar, your month in DESK and what is new; switch it off under Settings › Emails or with one click in every email.

13 October 202620:44auslieferung-20261013-2044

Telegram: same story never twice

Fixed

• Telegram: the same story is no longer posted twice when it arrives under another company or source (Hyundai Motor Group and Hyundai Motor Company, two outlets) — new drafts and headlines are compared with everything posted in the last seven days, and the AI sees the recent posts

13 October 202617:39auslieferung-20261013-1739

Security check: no keys in the frontend, no open data; data export no longer shows other members' emails

Fixed

• Data export (Settings › Security & data): addresses of other members (direct messages, friends, follows, blocks, reports) now appear as their community name instead of their email address.

13 October 202616:57auslieferung-20261013-1657

Sandbox test of the partner and referral programme passed (6 cases); 4 payment fixes

Fixed

• Checkout: the payment window now always gets its security rule, including when the page comes through the route for switched content; until now it could fail to load once payments are on.
• Checkout: an account opened by the payment confirmation (buyer closed the tab right after paying) now records the payment too.

13 October 202612:39auslieferung-20261013-1239

Outbound links with a slim arrow instead of the arrow emoji; dictionary picture restored

Fixed

• Links that open outside DESK (methodology, SEC, OFAC, Wikipedia, company websites) show a slim arrow in the text colour instead of the blue arrow emoji.
• Dictionary: the picture for "Die Milchkuh" is back.

13 October 202612:30auslieferung-20261013-1230

Licence clean-up: promotional images, credits (GeoNames, Ionicons, V-Dem, GDELT), honest user agent, EODHD only with Pro

Fixed

• Promotional images: example chat messages no longer quote ship-traffic or daily oil-price figures; the crypto-traders preview image no longer mentions ETF flows; unused images removed.
• Country-page image credits GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); Ionicons licence text added; V-Dem named with its licence on the sources page.
• Telegram news posts name GDELT with a link.
• Public changelog no longer describes sources without a commercial licence.

13 October 202611:53auslieferung-20261013-1153

Footer: TradingView partner with official logo

Improved

• Footer: TradingView shown as partner with its official logo.

13 October 202611:34auslieferung-20261013-1134

Glossary search and note on the 9,400-term dictionary; TradingView as partner in the footer

Added

• Glossary: a search box at the top (English and German names, abbreviations such as P/E); with no match it points to the full DESK dictionary.
• Glossary: a note that these are the 154 basic terms and that DESK holds the full dictionary with more than 9,400 terms.
• Footer: TradingView named as partner.

13 October 202611:22auslieferung-20261013-1122

German pages link to German legal pages; calendar EIA names in German

Fixed

• German pages link to the German legal pages (privacy, terms, legal notice, withdrawal).
• Free economic calendar: weekly EIA reports with plain German names on the German page.

13 October 202611:14auslieferung-20261013-1114

Public pages: one language per page (glossary formulas, calendar, report sources), glossary in menu and footer, new /data and /explained

Added

• New overview pages: /data and /explained (also in German), with the latest value for every data page.
• The free glossary is now in the Resources menu, the footer and on the Dictionary page ("Read 154 terms free").

Fixed

• Glossary: formulas now appear in the language of the page – the English pages showed some German formulas (164 formulas translated, also in the app's dictionary).
• German glossary: term names in German ("Liquidität" instead of "Liquidity (Liquidität)"), in the A–Z list and under related terms.
• Free economic calendar: German names for all official US releases on the German page.
• Weekly reports: the source line is in German on German pages, in the email and in the PDF.
• German "About DESK" and "Methodology": footer in German, links to the German pages.
• Email addresses on legal pages, the home page, the press kit and the changelog are no longer hidden by Cloudflare.

13 October 202610:36auslieferung-20261013-1036

Sign-in page: clean console

Fixed

• The sign-in page no longer logs a 401 error in the browser console either.

13 October 202610:30auslieferung-20261013-1030

German pages fully German: product names, number formats, /de addresses; console clean

Improved

• German pages and app: product names in German throughout (Makro-Terminal, Krypto-Terminal, Marktgeometrie, Wörterbuch, Berichte, Prop-Firmen, Automatisierung); English stays English.
• German sample figures in German format (111,7 Bio. $, +2,9 %, 4.180 €), condition examples in German ("inflation < 2 und wachstum > 3").
• Market hours tool: German names for crypto, forex and CME.
• German addresses for support, cancellation, withdrawal, reporting, terms, legal notice and privacy (/de/...).

Fixed

• /de/support was a 404.
• /de/info showed its subtitle in English.
• Public pages no longer log a 401 error in the browser console for visitors without an account.
• Press kit: the email address is no longer hidden by Cloudflare.
• Weekly reports of weeks 39 and 40: German calendar figures in German format.

13 October 202609:57auslieferung-20261013-0957

Wording: DESK Pro follows your portfolio; no tracking pixels on our pages

Fixed

• Home and pricing: DESK Pro is described as a portfolio tool ("follows your portfolio") instead of "manages your money".
• Home, press and about: "no tracking pixels on our pages" – precise, as in the privacy policy.

13 October 202609:22auslieferung-20261013-0922

Public pages name CoinLore as a source

Improved

• Public pages (Crypto Terminal, Portfolio, Sources) name CoinLore as a source.

13 October 202609:12auslieferung-20261013-0912

Heatmap tiles larger; Altcoin Season badge SOON

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: larger, almost square heatmap tiles with bigger text.
• Altcoin Season: the badge now just reads "SOON…".

13 October 202608:55auslieferung-20261013-0855

Original DESK heatmap back; Altcoin Season marked SOON

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: the original DESK heatmap is back – equal tiles ordered by market value, coloured by the change over 1h, 24h or 7d, now with CoinLore data; a click opens the coin in the Dashboard.
• Altcoin Season shows a "DESK SOON" badge instead of DESK Pro until enough daily records exist.

13 October 202608:44auslieferung-20261013-0844

Crypto Terminal: coin logos, smaller heatmap, readable market list, watchlist fixed

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: coin logos in the header, the coin menu, the watchlist and the market list (web3icons, MIT; cryptocurrency-icons, CC0; stored on DESK's own server).
• Heatmap smaller; the market list below has its full height again and scrolls inside its tile.
• CME & Coinbase futures: the legend sits below the charts on the left.
• Altcoin Season shows the DESK Pro badge until 30 days of DESK's own price records exist.

Fixed

• Watchlist showed only the first letters of the coins.

13 October 202608:27auslieferung-20261013-0827

Crypto Terminal: own heatmap, market list, watchlist and header from CoinLore; Altcoin Season back

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: own heatmap (area = market cap, colour = change over 1h, 24h or 7d) and market list of the 100 largest coins instead of TradingView widgets; a click opens the coin in the Dashboard chart.
• Crypto Terminal: own coin header (price, change, market cap, volume, supply) and watchlist with CoinLore prices.
• Dominance tile: Bitcoin, Ethereum and all others as a bar with today's figures; the full history since 2013 stays a TradingView chart.
• Altcoin Season is back: DESK now records the prices of the 100 largest coins every day; the index appears after 30 days, the biggest movers of the day already show.
• Cycles: "Cycle top signals" renamed to "Cycle top indicators".
• Futures: the CME & Coinbase tile is more compact (flatter charts, tables only in the enlarged view).

Fixed

• On-chain and Futures: no more empty DESK Pro area where the derivatives data used to be.

13 October 202608:04auslieferung-20261013-0804

CoinLore is back: dominance figures, prices of 1,000 coins in ticker and portfolio

Added

• Crypto Terminal: the Dominance tile shows today's figures under the chart – Bitcoin and Ethereum dominance, total market cap with its 24h change, and 24h volume (Data: CoinLore).
• Ticker and portfolio: prices of the 1,000 largest coins, not only Bitcoin (Data: CoinLore).
• Portfolio: each coin shows its rank, market cap, volume, supply and 1h/24h/7d changes again.
• DESK AI: answers on total market, dominance and any of the 1,000 largest coins.

13 October 202607:38auslieferung-20261013-0738

Night findings fixed: calendar shutdown months, overview freshness, Wikidata pacing

Fixed

• Economic calendar: releases moved by the 2025 US government shutdown now show the right month (unemployment rate on 20 Nov 2025 = September; import prices on 3 Dec 2025 = September). Months the BLS never published are marked as not published.
• Macro overview: a source file updated overnight now refreshes the overview at once, so it no longer shows an older figure than the country page.
• Wikidata requests: one per second, and a pause requested by Wikidata now applies to every DESK process.

12 October 202622:28auslieferung-20261012-2228

Forecasts to 2060, monthly trade for UK/Canada/Australia/Norway, FDI for five more EU countries

Added

• Forecasts now run to 2060: after the European Commission, OECD or World Bank years, the OECD Long-Term Baseline continues GDP growth and the budget balance (baseline scenario). Every year names its source.
• Monthly trade by partner for the United Kingdom (HMRC), Canada (Statistics Canada), Australia (ABS) and Norway (Statistics Norway), converted at the ECB monthly rate.
• Money-flow map: direct investment positions of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta and Romania from Eurostat.

12 October 202621:57auslieferung-20261012-2157

Debt for all countries, money flows and monthly trade back without the IMF

Added

• Government debt and budget balance for about 195 countries instead of 45: countries without a Eurostat or OECD figure now come from the World Bank Fiscal Space Database
• Money-flow map is back without the IMF: direct investment positions of the OECD members by partner country (2013-2024)
• Monthly trade by partner is back without the IMF: the 27 EU members (Eurostat Comext, converted at the ECB monthly rate) and the United States (US Census), from 2015
• Four new sources on the Sources page with licence watch; methodology sections in English and German (the German page now also explains government debt)

12 October 202621:25auslieferung-20261012-2125

Forecasts back without the IMF

Added

• Forecasts are back on country pages without the IMF: European Commission (AMECO) for EU members, OECD Economic Outlook for OECD and large emerging economies, World Bank Global Economic Prospects for GDP growth elsewhere (about 190 countries). The Forecast tile names its source
• Three new sources on the Sources page, licence watch for each, methodology section on how forecasts are chosen

12 October 202620:59auslieferung-20261012-2059

Website: indicators, not signals

Improved

• Website: Pi Cycle, Puell Multiple and similar are now called cycle-top indicators instead of signals

12 October 202620:25auslieferung-20261012-2025

Theme switch: dark to light animates, rounded hint

Improved

• Light/dark switch: a rounded hint in the page style instead of the square browser tooltip

Fixed

• Light/dark switch: going from dark back to light now animates instead of turning light at once

12 October 202620:16auslieferung-20261012-2016

Theme switch: no gap between animations

Fixed

• Light/dark switch: the next animation starts straight away after a cancelled one

12 October 202620:09auslieferung-20261012-2009

Theme switch: full animation on every click

Fixed

• Light/dark switch: every click now ends with a full animation to the chosen mode, also from dark to light

12 October 202620:02auslieferung-20261012-2002

Theme switch: no flicker on fast clicks

Fixed

• Light/dark switch: clicking it quickly several times no longer leaves the page dark and flickering; the last choice is applied after the animation

12 October 202619:11auslieferung-20261012-1911

Refund link jumps to the paragraph

Fixed

• The "Refund policy" link now scrolls to the right paragraph in the language you are reading

12 October 202619:05auslieferung-20261012-1905

Refund policy link for the Paddle review

Added

• Refund policy: its own paragraph in the terms (section 10) and a "Refund policy" link in the footer of every public page

12 October 202618:06auslieferung-20261012-1806

Legal texts updated

Improved

• Privacy policy: Brevo declined to switch off its email counting (stated openly), IMF and FRED no longer named as data sources, news emails described as direct marketing with consent, full list of consents you can withdraw
• Terms: country and company pages, glossary and CSV data files listed as free; CSV files may be reused under the licence of their source
• Legal notice: contact form as a second contact route, responsible person under the Interstate Media Treaty

12 October 202616:28auslieferung-20261012-1628

Licence watch: no false alarms

Fixed

• Licence watch: no more false alarms - pages are read in English (Google redirected the server to Spanish), "not readable for 3 days" now means three days, a failed fetch no longer repeats an old finding, and the watch runs at most once every 20 hours instead of after every restart. USDA FoodData Central refuses connections from the server and is checked by hand.

12 October 202616:07auslieferung-20261012-1607

Calculator widgets load immediately

Fixed

• Calculator widgets load right away (lazy loading kept them empty on the dashboard).

12 October 202616:00auslieferung-20261012-1600

Tool widgets on the dashboard, full glossary pages

Added

• Custom dashboard: seven more widgets from the free tools - compound interest, inflation calculator, withdrawal plan, real return, central bank rates, economic calendar (week) and loan calculator - in the app's language and light/dark mode.

Improved

• Glossary pages show the whole dictionary entry: plain and detailed explanation, formula, example, what it means for traders, common pitfalls and all related terms.

12 October 202615:31auslieferung-20261012-1531

Dividend check: three quarters

Fixed

• Dividend per share check: a quarterly rate needs the same rate in at least three quarters of the fiscal year, so a dividend paid once a year and filed in two quarters (Activision) stays.

12 October 202615:15auslieferung-20261012-1515

Glossary a bit more detailed, internal links to glossary

Improved

• Glossary pages show a little more: the detailed explanation (where the dictionary has one) and what the term means for traders. Formula, pitfalls and the full network of terms stay in the app.
• Data, explainer and tool pages link glossary terms in their text (first mention, at most eight per page).

12 October 202615:04auslieferung-20261012-1504

Dividend check: per tag

Fixed

• Dividend per share check: quarters are counted per SEC tag, so a dividend paid once a year and filed as declared in one quarter and as paid in the next (Publix) stays.

12 October 202614:54auslieferung-20261012-1454

Dividend check: same fiscal year only

Fixed

• Dividend per share check: only quarters that end within the same fiscal year count, so a single dividend in a year (Nordstrom 2020) is no longer mistaken for a quarterly rate.

12 October 202614:44auslieferung-20261012-1444

Dividends: one proven quarterly rate drops the series

Fixed

• Dividend per share: one proven quarterly rate filed as an annual value is enough to drop a company's whole dividend series (Jacobs).

12 October 202614:33auslieferung-20261012-1433

Dividends: whole series dropped for quarterly-rate filers

Fixed

• Dividend per share: a company that files its quarterly rate as the annual value in at least two years loses its whole dividend series (Visa also files no quarters for 2012-2017 and 2021).
• Correction to the previous entry: Nike's fiscal year 2026 (June 2025 to May 2026) is complete and is shown correctly; the check for fiscal years that have not ended stays as a safeguard.

12 October 202614:24auslieferung-20261012-1424

Company pages: only completed fiscal years

Fixed

• Company pages: a fiscal year that has not ended yet (a twelve-month value, e.g. Nike) is no longer shown as a fiscal year; the note names the right first month (Nvidia: February 2025 to January 2026).

12 October 202614:16auslieferung-20261012-1416

Company pages: fiscal year names, no EPS; glossary fixes

Fixed

• Company pages name each fiscal year as the company does, by the year it ends (Nvidia February 2025 to January 2026 = fiscal year 2026), with a note when the year does not end in December.
• Company pages no longer show earnings per share, which the SEC data give unadjusted for stock splits.
• Glossary: English addresses come from the English term (/glossary/msci-world-index instead of msci-world-de, old addresses redirect), singular for one related term, "more than 9,400 terms", page date and its own title for the overview.

12 October 202614:03auslieferung-20261012-1403

Dividend check: fallback to companyfacts

Fixed

• Dividend per share check: when the SEC companyconcept service returns no list for a company (Visa), the values come from companyfacts instead.

12 October 202613:53auslieferung-20261012-1353

Dividend per share: quarterly filings per company

Fixed

• Dividend per share: the quarterly filings are now read for each company from SEC companyconcept (the frames service lists only one value per quarter), so quarterly rates filed as annual values are caught in every year (Visa 2010-2025, Jacobs).

12 October 202613:40auslieferung-20261012-1340

Dividend per share: precise quarterly-rate check

Fixed

• Dividend per share: the check now compares a filed annual value with the same company's quarterly filings. A value that equals the rate of at least two quarters of that fiscal year is the quarterly rate (Visa) and is left out; real annual values such as JPMorgan 2009 stay.

12 October 202613:28auslieferung-20261012-1328

Dividend per share: quarterly rates filed as annual values are dropped

Fixed

• Dividend per share: values that a company filed as the quarterly rate for the whole year (Visa 2025: $0.59 instead of $2.36) are now recognised against the dividends actually paid and left out instead of being shown.

12 October 202613:15auslieferung-20261012-1315

Company pages: short names, no dividend row

Fixed

• Company pages show the short company name (Microsoft instead of MICROSOFT CORPORATION) and no longer show dividends per share, which some companies file as a quarterly rate.

12 October 202613:08auslieferung-20261012-1308

Glossary with 154 terms, 15 more company pages

Added

• Glossary: 154 of the most searched market terms from the DESK dictionary as open pages in English and German (short definition, plain explanation, example), with an A-Z overview at /glossary.
• Company pages for 15 more large US companies (Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla and others) and an overview at /companies - annual figures from SEC filings, no share prices.

Improved

• Start page and footer link to the company overview and the glossary.

12 October 202612:22auslieferung-20261012-1222

Favicon files, 404 pages, CSV downloads, video data

Improved

• Data pages: each series can be downloaded as CSV (source and licence in the first lines); search engines see the download link. The gold price stays on the page only.
• Explainer pages describe their video for search engines; the video itself still loads only on click.

Fixed

• Addresses that do not exist now answer "not found" (404) instead of "access denied".
• The DESK icon is now a real file (favicon.ico, favicon.svg, Apple touch icon), so search engines can show it.

12 October 202612:04auslieferung-20261012-1204

Licence watch covers all 97 sources

Improved

• Licence watch now covers every one of the 97 sources on the Sources page: each has its own terms page checked daily, or a dated manual check with a reminder where the page blocks programs (OECD, UNHCR, Farside).

Fixed

• Sources page: precise licence notes for Eurostat/OECD, OECD datasets, BIS, WHOOP, Google Calendar, Farside, filings.xbrl.org, mempool.space, BEA and Anthropic; UNHCR terms link updated to its new address.

12 October 202611:29auslieferung-20261012-1129

Licence round 3: KAPSARC paused, notices and licence labels fixed

Improved

• Electricity tariffs of the UAE and Saudi Arabia are paused until the KAPSARC data portal permits reuse; Bahrain stays, without a link to EWA.
• USGS country reports: rows credited to proprietary third-party sources are no longer taken over.

Fixed

• Sources page: corrected licence notes (ECB, OECD, EU Oil Bulletin, ExchangeRate-API, CEPII BACI with version, DataHub, NASA GIBS, UN WUP, Wikipedia, USGS Minerals Yearbook, GDELT, alternative.me, EODHD, UNHCR, Frankfurter, UCDP).
• Added required notices: FHFA, UNHCR credit line, NASA GIBS acknowledgement, MIT licence text for the flags.
• GDELT and alternative.me are now linked wherever they are named on a panel.

12 October 202610:41auslieferung-20261012-1041

Sources page without paused sources

Fixed

• The public sources page and product pages no longer name sources whose commercial licence is still pending (IMF incl. PortWatch, FRED); provider counts updated (43).

12 October 202610:23auslieferung-20261012-1023

Weekly reports without press-review sections

Improved

• Company topics enter a weekly report only when an official filing (SEC 8-K) stands behind them.

Fixed

• Weekly reports no longer contain press-review sections ("Media reports"); CW 39 no longer carries the Activision/Xbox item.

12 October 202610:02auslieferung-20261012-1002

Fresh report PDFs

Fixed

• Weekly reports 39 to 41: no sections on protests or unrest, no figures from news reports (for example job cuts), and the introduction no longer mentions removed topics; new reports leave protests out.
• Checkout: the withdrawal box is hidden while payments are off.

12 October 202609:57auslieferung-20261012-0957

Weekly reports without unrest and news figures, checkout withdrawal box hidden

Fixed

• Weekly reports 39 to 41: no sections on protests or unrest, no figures from news reports (for example job cuts), and the introduction no longer mentions removed topics; new reports leave protests out.
• Checkout: the withdrawal box is hidden while payments are off.

12 October 202609:24auslieferung-20261012-0924

One language per address for About/Methodology, checkout without payments, report fixes

Improved

• About DESK and Methodology: each address serves only its own language (/info and /de/info, /methodology and /de/methodology).
• Methodology: section 6 is now a short summary of how figures are checked; the data rules stay.
• Checkout and pricing: while payments are off, the checkout says accounts open with a community code and hides the paid-order parts; the pricing page says codes are given out personally.

Fixed

• Weekly report: sections that only had news counts left are dropped, and sub-headlines that no longer fit are removed.
• About DESK no longer mentions Life & Spirit.
• Country pages: the Gini index with one decimal.

12 October 202609:13auslieferung-20261012-0913

German: Arbeitsplatz instead of desk

Improved

• German pages: "desk" as a common noun is now "Arbeitsplatz" everywhere ("Die Märkte der Welt, an einem Arbeitsplatz.", "Richte deinen Arbeitsplatz ein.", sidebar group "Mein Arbeitsplatz"); DESK as a name stays. New German link preview image.

12 October 202609:00auslieferung-20261012-0900

Website without nutrition ads, consistent sign-up, report fixes

Improved

• Website: the food diary, Life & Spirit and the MyFitnessPal comparison are no longer advertised; both pages lead to the home page. In the app everything stays.
• Sign-up texts are the same everywhere (weekly report + macro calendar), including the footer, the Strait of Hormuz page and the report archive.
• Footer "Data & updates" lists every data page, the country overview and the report archive.
• Pricing page: note that payments open soon (disappears by itself once payments are live).

Fixed

• Weekly report pages: the "7 days" column shows its values; headlines no longer mention oil once oil prices are filtered out.
• Weekly reports: no figures taken from news headlines (deal sizes, amounts) and no named private individuals or arrests; new reports follow the same rules.
• Strait of Hormuz page: no longer says "0 straits" while ship data is paused.

12 October 202608:28auslieferung-20261012-0828

Night check findings fixed: money flows paused note, long-run trade, cycle without IMF

Fixed

• Money flows map: while the IMF licence is pending it shows a clear note instead of an empty map; the flow routes answer "paused" instead of a server error.
• Long-run trade now shows exports and imports of goods and services (World Bank national accounts) instead of repeating the merchandise series.
• Business cycle: quarterly GDP from the IMF is no longer kept from older builds while the IMF is switched off.
• Fewer outside calls after restarts (source clock and OFAC sanctions list).
• Intentional locks (DESK Pro, licence pauses) no longer count as server errors.

11 October 202621:43auslieferung-20261011-2143

Old reports without EIA daily prices, German About/Methodology, visitor counts for new pages

Added

• German addresses for About and Methodology: /de/info and /de/methodology, with hreflang in both directions.

Fixed

• Licences: older weekly reports no longer show EIA daily energy prices (chart, table rows, sentences) on the web page, in the PDF, in the app or by email while permission is pending.
• Market Geometry page: no longer mentions the Nasdaq 100.
• Visitor counts now include the free tools, data and explainer pages, the country overview, the links page and the weekly report pages.
• Data pages tell search engines the real name of the source agency and its licence.

11 October 202621:13auslieferung-20261011-2113

Weekly report as a web page

Added

• Every weekly report is now also a web page (/reports/weekly-2026-41, in English and German), with text, tables and charts; /reports/latest opens the newest issue. The archive and the sitemap link the web pages, the PDF stays next to them.

11 October 202620:58auslieferung-20261011-2058

15 more country pages, 7 new data pages

Added

• Public country pages for 15 more countries (USA, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Poland, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, China, Japan, India, Canada) and an overview at /countries.
• Seven new public data pages: US GDP growth, inflation in Germany and the euro area, the 10-year Treasury yield, the gold price, FOMC and ECB meeting dates.

Fixed

• The recession explainer shows its latest figure again (US GDP now comes straight from the BEA).

11 October 202620:39auslieferung-20261011-2039

Wars with Europe count, who attacks whom, macro calendar at sign-up, licence fixes

Improved

• Major events: a war now also counts if a European state is a party (EU, UK, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland).
• DESK Radar and Important Alerts say who attacks whom ("Russia attacks Poland"), when the headlines make it clear.
• Sign-up fields: the macro calendar is offered right at the form ("Weekly report + macro calendar, free").
• Search engines: the DESK brand now lists all profiles (YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Telegram).

Fixed

• Theme switch: no more bright flash at the end of the switch to dark mode.
• Licences: no announcement of "BTC against the Nasdaq" without an index licence; FAO no longer named on the sources page of the website; methodology describes the World Bank monthly prices that replace the EIA daily prices.

11 October 202620:22auslieferung-20261011-2022

Major events only with a world power; animated theme switch

Improved

• Important Alerts and DESK Radar: a war counts as a major event only if one side is the USA, Russia or China, or both sides are nuclear powers. The Saudi Arabia – Yemen alert was withdrawn.
• Methodology page: the rule is published.
• Public pages: the moon/sun switch now slides, and the page changes like a torch switching on and off.

11 October 202620:12auslieferung-20261011-2012

Important Alerts only for wars involving a world power

Improved

• Important Alerts: a war now triggers an alert only if one side is the USA, Russia or China, or both sides are nuclear powers. Regional conflicts stay visible in DESK Radar without a push.
• Methodology page: the alert rule is published.

11 October 202620:01auslieferung-20261011-2001

Privacy policy and terms updated for the public part

Improved

• Privacy policy updated for the public part of DESK: public pages, free calculators and embedding, welcome emails, colour scheme setting, DESK Alerts channels on Telegram.
• Privacy policy now states openly that the email service counts opens and clicks (switched to anonymous; full switch-off requested).
• Terms of use: new paragraphs on the free part without an account and on embedding the calculators.

Fixed

• Welcome series: the record of sent welcome emails is now deleted when someone unsubscribes.

11 October 202619:32auslieferung-20261011-1932

Email signature with logo and social icons

Improved

• New email signature in the style of a business card: the DESK logo on the left, name, role, links and the X, YouTube and Telegram icons on the right, in every automatic email.

11 October 202619:24auslieferung-20261011-1924

Light and dark mode on all public pages

Added

• Light and dark mode on every public page: a moon and sun switch next to the language switch. The choice is remembered in your browser; without a choice the pages stay dark.

11 October 202619:16auslieferung-20261011-1916

Links page redesign, email signature, /tg to home page

Improved

• The links page has cards with icons in two columns and buttons for the profiles.
• Automatic emails to customers and subscribers end with a signature (weekly report, Telegram, all links), in the language of the email.
• Short link deskalmanac.com/tg opens the home page, like the other short links.

Fixed

• Styles and scripts of the public pages carry a version stamp, so changes show up at once instead of after up to four hours.

11 October 202619:07auslieferung-20261011-1907

Short link /tg

Added

• Short link deskalmanac.com/tg for the Telegram channel info: it opens the links page and counts sign-ups as coming from Telegram.

11 October 202617:59auslieferung-20261011-1759

Links page, weekly report on Telegram, profiles in the footer

Added

• deskalmanac.com/links: one page with everything free (weekly report sign-up, Telegram, tools, latest report, profiles) for the social media bios.
• Each new weekly report is posted once in both DESK Alerts Telegram channels, with a link to the PDF and the sign-up.

Improved

• The footer of every page links the DESK profiles on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Telegram.

11 October 202617:41auslieferung-20261011-1741

Welcome series switched on for new subscribers

Added

• The welcome series for new weekly report subscribers is switched on. Existing subscribers do not receive it.

11 October 202617:06auslieferung-20261011-1706

Email list: sign-up everywhere, welcome series (off until approved), macro calendar download

Added

• Weekly report sign-up in the footer of every page, and on every data and explainer page.
• A welcome series for new subscribers (day 0, 2, 4, 6 and 9: the latest report and the macro calendar, what DESK is, DESK Alerts on Telegram, the free tools, and one question). It stays switched off until the texts are approved.
• The macro calendar (PDF) can be downloaded only through the link in the welcome email.

Improved

• The confirmation email and the weekly report email link to the legal notice.

11 October 202616:59auslieferung-20261011-1659

Footer: logo row on top, six columns side by side

Improved

• Footer: the logo and the one-line description sit in their own row at the top, with all six link columns side by side underneath (Legal no longer drops into a row of its own).

11 October 202616:51auslieferung-20261011-1651

Public pages in the home page frame: same logo, menus and footer

Improved

• Every public page (data pages, explainers, free tools, Spain, Apple, Strait of Hormuz, weekly report archive) now uses the header, logo, menus, footer, fonts and colours of the home page, so the whole site looks the same.
• The home page footer links to the free tools.

11 October 202616:38auslieferung-20261011-1638

Search fixes: year-ago CPI, videos on click, dataset schema, sitemap dates

Added

• The 60-second explainer videos can be played right on the explainer and data pages: nothing loads from YouTube until you click play (youtube-nocookie.com). The privacy policy describes this.

Improved

• The "Free" menu on the home page opens to the right, like the other menus.
• Data pages carry licence, time period and source link in their structured data, explainer pages their publication date and an image.
• Strait of Hormuz page: shorter title and description.
• The sitemap now dates each page by its last real change instead of the delivery day. The changelog is no longer listed for search engines.
• Methodology: the PortWatch ship figures are marked as paused until the IMF answers.

Fixed

• US inflation page: "A year ago" now compares the same month of the previous year (August 2025: 2.9%). It showed July because the October 2025 figure was never published.
• The weekly report day is Saturday on every page (data and explainer pages said Sunday).

11 October 202616:22auslieferung-20261011-1622

Free tools: ten calculators and a Free menu

Added

• Free tools at deskalmanac.com/tools (German at /de/tools), no sign-up: compound interest calculator, currency converter with ECB reference rates, inflation calculator (US since 1913, euro area and ten countries since 1996), withdrawal calculator, real return calculator, position size calculator, stock market hours clock, central bank rates compared (Fed, ECB, Bank of England, SNB, Bank of Japan), this week's economic calendar from the official release schedules, and a loan and mortgage calculator.
• Each tool shows its formula, a worked example, three questions with answers, its sources, and an embed code with "Powered by DESK" for blogs.
• New "Free" menu on the home page with all tools and DESK Alerts on Telegram.

Improved

• The Telegram button and tile on the home page moved into the new "Free" menu. The weekly report stays at the top.
• The methodology page lists the formulas of the free tools.

11 October 202615:50auslieferung-20261011-1550

About and legal pages: DESK is not private-only

Improved

• The legal pages and the About page no longer describe DESK as a "private trading workspace": the app sits behind a sign-in, but the data pages, explainers and the weekly report archive are open to everyone, and /info now links them.

11 October 202615:26auslieferung-20261011-1526

AI search: llms.txt, AI crawlers in robots.txt, one name everywhere

Added

• /llms.txt: a short overview of DESK for AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity), with every public data page, explainer and product page.

Improved

• robots.txt names the AI search and AI training crawlers explicitly and lets them read the public pages; the app behind the login stays closed to every bot. Bytespider stays blocked.
• One name everywhere: "DESK (deskalmanac.com)" as site name and in the structured data, so AI search does not confuse DESK with other products called Desk.
• The first sentence of the country, company and Strait of Hormuz pages now names the source next to the year.

11 October 202614:45auslieferung-20261011-1445

About page: who is behind DESK

Improved

• The About page now says who builds and runs DESK and why it exists, in English and German.

11 October 202614:26auslieferung-20261011-1426

Public data and explainer pages, SEO titles and structured data, licence credits

Added

• Free public data pages: US inflation, US unemployment, Fed funds rate, ECB interest rate, US crude oil inventories and EUR/USD. Each shows the latest figure with date, a short history, the next release date, three questions with answers and the source.
• Explainer pages for the "Explained in 60 Seconds" series: inflation, how the Fed sets rates, recession and the euro, with the latest figures.
• The branches per company from OpenStreetMap can be downloaded under the ODbL (link on the sources page).

Improved

• Clearer titles and descriptions for all public pages, structured data (organisation, breadcrumbs, FAQ) and language versions in the sitemap.
• Every public page links to the data and explainer pages, the free weekly report and Telegram.
• Images on the public pages load as WebP and only when scrolled to, so pages load faster.
• The About page describes DESK as a research terminal for markets and the economy.

Fixed

• Logo authors are shown on company pages, not only in the tooltip.
• Map imagery credits name the layer actually shown (night lights, vegetation, relief, climate zones).
• The conscription note names the Wikipedia article and its authors; font licence texts are published.

11 October 202613:16auslieferung-20261011-1316

Second licence review: ECB rates in the ticker, store ratings out, NY Fed notice, OSM buildings back

Fixed

• The ticker shows ECB reference rates for currencies (AED via its official peg to the US dollar).
• The Guide no longer shows App Store and Google Play ratings; the links stay.
• Chart symbols on company pages come from Wikidata only.
• Notices added: the New York Fed notice next to the Fed funds rate, and alternative.me named in AI answers about the Fear & Greed index.
• The sources page now states correctly that EIA daily prices are not shown.
• Company branches stored in OpenStreetMap as buildings are back on the Companies map (the first planet run had left them out).

11 October 202611:10auslieferung-20261011-1110

OSM branches weekly from the planet file

Improved

• Company branches on the Companies map now come once a week from the OpenStreetMap planet file, with all brands of each company.

11 October 202610:53auslieferung-20261011-1053

General government figures from Eurostat/OECD, Census calendar history

Added

• Earlier US calendar dates for retail sales, durable goods, factory orders, housing starts, building permits, new home sales, trade balance, inventories and construction spending now show a figure: the current, possibly revised value from the Census Data API, marked "r".

Improved

• Government debt, budget balance, revenue and interest again mean the general government (central, state and local government and social security): Eurostat for the EU, EFTA and candidate countries, OECD for its other members.
• Countries without these figures show the central government from the World Bank as a separate, clearly named indicator.
• The methodology page explains the government figures and the gold estimate.

11 October 202610:03auslieferung-20261011-1003

Paused IMF, UNODC, prison and military data data with replacements (World Bank, CEPII BACI)

Improved

• Government debt, budget balance, revenue and interest payments now come from the World Bank (central government).
• Trade between countries (partners, flow maps) now comes from CEPII BACI, from 1995.
• Merchandise exports and imports since 1960 come from the World Bank.
• Gold reserves are estimated from World Bank reserves with and without gold.

Fixed

• Sources that have not yet agreed to commercial use are no longer shown: IMF data (forecasts, SDR rate, ship traffic, direct investment by partner), UNODC drug data, prison figures and military spending. They return once permission arrives.
• DESK Impact and the radar use World Bank monthly prices instead of daily EIA prices.
• Tiles without any remaining data are hidden instead of showing "no data".

11 October 202608:34auslieferung-20261011-0834

FRED stores removed, SEC contact header, quieter EIA probes

Fixed

• Company pages: quarterly revenue updates again (the SEC asks for a contact address in every request).

11 October 202607:56auslieferung-20261011-0756

FRED replaced by the original publishers: Federal Reserve Board, ECB, BIS, OECD, BLS, DOL, FHFA, NBER; calendar keeps first releases

Improved

• Money tab: US money supply, the Fed balance sheet and the fed funds rate now come straight from the Federal Reserve Board; the ECB balance sheet and deposit rate from the ECB; the Bank of Japan balance sheet from the BIS.
• Crypto terminal: Fed net liquidity is calculated from the Federal Reserve Board's own weekly balance sheet.
• 10-year bond yields come from the OECD, now back to the 1950s (US from April 1953).
• Economic calendar: unemployment claims and the FHFA house price index have their own release schedules; the FOMC target range comes from the Federal Reserve Board.
• Economic calendar: older rows without a figure captured on release day show the agency's current figure, marked with a small "r".

Fixed

• US everyday prices (air fares, food, chemicals, plastics) come directly from the BLS.
• The US recession flag is read from the NBER's own business cycle table.
• Sources page: the Federal Reserve Board and the FHFA are listed with their terms.

11 October 202607:05auslieferung-20261011-0705

Licence fixes 2: climate zones from Beck 2023, IDMC via HDX, Eurostat limited to EU/EFTA/candidates, Hormuz oil prices from the World Bank, currency images without verified licence removed, licence watch

Improved

• Climate zones on the map now come from Beck et al. (2023): Köppen-Geiger for 1991–2020 at 1 km resolution, CC BY 4.0.
• Internally displaced people now come from the IDMC data file on HDX (CC BY-IGO).
• Everyday prices: price levels for the United Kingdom now come from the OECD.
• Economic calendar: the figures DESK reads at the moment of release are now kept permanently, so every release keeps its first print.

Fixed

• Strait of Hormuz page: oil prices are now World Bank (Pink Sheet) monthly averages; "before the war" is the last full month before it.
• Eurostat figures are limited to the EU, EFTA and candidate countries.
• Dictionary: banknote and coin images without a verified licence are no longer shown – the currencies stay, with a short note; large images are smaller.
• Trade chapters use DESK's own names.
• Start-page images no longer show company logos or publisher names.
• Homicide rate: World Bank figures only.

11 October 202605:42auslieferung-20261011-0542

Licence fixes: military data off public pages, Trustpilot scores and example portfolio removed, TradingView credit shown, required notices added

Improved

• Sources page: the attribution and notice texts our data providers require, word for word: BEA, BLS, Copernicus (via Our World in Data), ECB, EDINET, KAPSARC, Open Food Facts, UCDP publications, World Mining Data and a link to the FRED terms.
• Pricing: a note that much of the data is also published free of charge by its providers, for example the ECB.
• TradingView: the ticker tape and every chart now show TradingView's own credit line, unchanged.

Fixed

• Guide: the star ratings and the Trustpilot scores are gone, because Trustpilot does not allow its scores to be reused. The links to Trustpilot reviews stay.
• Portfolio AI: the example portfolio with specific securities is gone. The allocation plan by asset class, region and sector stays.

10 October 202614:17auslieferung-20261010-1417

Company pages: reports for Hochtief, Cancom, DWS, ProSiebenSat.1, Covestro H1 and Ceconomy 2024/25 via download links without .pdf

Added

• Company pages: figures from the companies' own reports for Hochtief, Cancom, DWS and ProSiebenSat.1 (annual and half-year report), plus Covestro's half-year report and Ceconomy's 2024/25 annual report.

Improved

• Report reader: it now also follows download links without ".pdf" in the address and takes the file name from the server or from the page.
• Report reader: it reads the figure dash (‒) as a minus sign.

10 October 202613:32auslieferung-20261010-1332

Country pages: fresh replacements for the discontinued CIA Factbook, sources on every row; USGS fallback via printed edition

Added

• Country pages: fresh replacements for the discontinued CIA World Factbook. Elections (last and next, presidential and parliamentary), the winner, parliament and seats, seat distribution, form of government, memberships, currency, official languages, new ambassadors and territorial disputes now come daily from Wikidata. Age structure, dependency ratio, population growth, urbanisation, exchange rate, water and land use come from the World Bank. Refugees and stateless persons come from UNHCR, internally displaced people from IDMC, median age from UN WPP and the largest cities from UN WUP.
• Every Factbook row now names its source. Rows with no fresh source keep the Factbook text, marked "Jan 2026".
• Military: new rows for conscription (Wikipedia), UN peacekeeping by mission (UN DPO via HDX, monthly) and fighting in conflicts abroad (UCDP). Conflicts: armed groups per country (UCDP).
• Sources page: UN Peacekeeping (HDX) and Wikipedia "Conscription by country" listed with their licences.

Improved

• Minerals: if the USGS data file can't be reached, the newest Mineral Commodity Summaries edition is read from the printed edition on pubs.usgs.gov. Only minerals the reader gets exactly right make it in.
• The nightly check now compares USGS against World Mining Data, mineral by mineral and year by year.

10 October 202611:53auslieferung-20261010-1153

Company pages: report figures for 22 more German companies

Added

• Company pages: figures from the companies' own reports for 22 more German companies. With annual and interim report: DHL, Siemens, Vonovia, Symrise, Fresenius, EnBW, Audi, RTL, Verbio, Sto, Heckler & Koch, MLP, flatexDEGIRO and Ceconomy. Annual report only: Infineon, Covestro, Wacker Chemie, Nemetschek, HelloFresh, KUKA, VARTA and Springer Nature.

Fixed

• Lufthansa: the report figures were stored under the airline instead of the listed Lufthansa Group and never reached the company page.

10 October 202611:13auslieferung-20261010-1113

Impact chain fits its text, instant company charts, company names highlight in search

Improved

• DESK Impact: steps in the chain are only as wide as their text.
• DESK Impact: company charts open on the first click. The server loads the SEC series in advance.
• Company pages: companies with an old SEC registration but no SEC quarterly figures show their own interim report instead.

Fixed

• Macro Terminal search: hovering a company highlights its name in gold, not the flag.

10 October 202610:41auslieferung-20261010-1041

Company pages: latest interim report for German companies

Added

• Company pages: German companies with a checked report template (about 105, DAX/MDAX/SDAX) show their latest interim report under Quarterly results: revenue, operating result, net profit, equity and total assets against the same period a year earlier, with a link to the PDF and the line in the report.

10 October 202610:15auslieferung-20261010-1015

Source clock: DESK checks 55 sources hourly and rebuilds the hour they publish

Improved

• Data freshness: every hour DESK now asks 55 data sources whether they have published something new, and rebuilds the same hour when they have. Before, many sources were only checked every 7 or 30 days. Among them: CEPII BACI, FAOSTAT, USGS, OECD tax and market data, IMF trade and direct investment, Eurostat, UCDP conflicts, World Bank, BIS, CFTC, the EU Oil Bulletin, the World Bank Pink Sheet and the EIA.
• Sources without a release date (Wikidata queries, SEC frames) are rebuilt more often: company lists every 2 days, headquarters supplements daily, quarterly revenue daily instead of weekly.

10 October 202609:24auslieferung-20261010-0924

Company search opens company pages, instant search field, three months of company news, Uniper page fixes

Improved

• Macro Terminal: clicking into the search field is instant. Before, the cursor appeared only after about 0.8 seconds.
• Company pages: News & filings now look back three months. Before the move to the new server they covered only the last few days, and older news is being read in the background.
• Company pages: for companies outside the U.S. SEC, the quarterly results say that these figures come with DESK Pro.

Fixed

• Macro Terminal: a company in the search results opens its company page, not the country page of its headquarters.
• Company pages: the "New data" icon above the revenue chart was drawn huge.
• Company pages: in the relations network, a long branch label (owners & institutional holders) no longer slides under the company circle, and hints appear in the DESK style instead of the browser's white box.

10 October 202609:04auslieferung-20261010-0904

DESK Impact: figures open their history, chain side by side, equal card heights, country links, labelled back buttons

Added

• DESK Impact: click a figure to see its history. Works for central bank balance sheet, policy rate and money supply; quarterly GDP in a recession; company revenue, net income and EPS per quarter (SEC); a country's share of world imports since 1995 (BACI); and a company's extra cost over time.
• DESK Impact: central bank cards say since when the balance sheet has been growing or shrinking and how recent the data is.

Improved

• DESK Impact: the chain is laid out side by side in numbered steps.
• DESK Impact: cards in a row have the same height.
• DESK Impact: countries on the cards (central banks, rate turns, recessions) open their country page.
• DESK Impact: the main supplier in the importer table opens that country's exports of the good. The row itself opens the importer's imports, at the matching tile.
• Back buttons say where they lead ("Back to DESK Impact", "Back to the Macro Terminal").
• Website: "For staying informed" opens with the world map of DESK Radar and the live feed.

Fixed

• DESK Impact: the "New" label in an opened card sits at the top right instead of stretching across the card.
• DESK Impact: war titles were partly in German on the English page.
• DESK Impact: GDP and company growth are shown green, decline red.

10 October 202608:32auslieferung-20261010-0832

Website: live news feed highlighted, DESK Floor coming soon for Android and iOS, Altcoin Season marked Pro

Improved

• Website: the live news feed in DESK Radar now has its own place. "For staying informed" opens with it, and the News page describes how new headlines arrive within minutes and can be filtered by country, commodity or company.
• Website: DESK Floor is announced as coming soon for Android and iOS.
• Website: the Altcoin Season tile on the crypto pages is marked as DESK Pro.

Fixed

• DESK Floor app: the O2L channels show the same icons as on the website.

10 October 202608:01auslieferung-20261010-0801

Night reports 10.10: cross-check waits for reloads, Farside pause, CFTC every 6 hours, deleted Wikidata company removed

Fixed

• CFTC crypto futures: DESK now checks for the new weekly report every 6 hours instead of once a day, so Friday's report shows up the same evening.
• Companies: an entry Wikidata deleted as a duplicate (CSN Mineração) is gone from the map, rankings and company lists; the correct entry stays.

9 October 202615:49auslieferung-20261009-1549

Switch for ETF flows on the website, careful licence wording on the sources page

Improved

• Website: ETF flows are only advertised while they are actually running. A switch (data/etf-werbung.json) controls it; while it is off, the server serves the pages without ETF flows and Farside: texts, the two ETF sections, meta descriptions and structured data. The steps are renumbered.
• Sources page: more careful wording on licences. DESK uses sources whose terms allow use in a paid product or asks the provider for permission; otherwise the source is replaced.

Fixed

• Community page: muting single channels and quiet hours at night come with DESK Floor; on the web you choose which messages notify you.
• Home page: the Crypto Terminal tile says futures positioning instead of futures data.

9 October 202615:25auslieferung-20261009-1525

Website advertises only what DESK offers today (DESK Floor coming later, calendar, crypto, guide counts)

Fixed

• Website: the Android app DESK Floor is shown as coming later, not as available. This covers the plan lists, the FAQ, the community page, the press facts and the MyFitnessPal comparison; the barcode scanner comes with the app.
• Website: the economic calendar is no longer described with forecasts or stars. It shows the previous value and the actual.
• Website: the Crypto Terminal is advertised with what it offers today: futures positioning from the CFTC. The "sentiment tab" is the dashboard.
• Broker guide on the website: current counts (66 brokers and banks, 48 platforms, 26 prop firms).
• The watchlist (DESK Pro) is no longer mentioned without its Pro label.

9 October 202614:58auslieferung-20261009-1458

Public pages: no data without a commercial licence (Hormuz ships, crypto futures, screenshots)

Improved

• Strait of Hormuz page: until the IMF grants permission, the public page shows no ship numbers. It shows how much of the world's oil and gas exports has no other sea route, who depends on the Gulf, oil prices and the start of the war. The start page no longer promises ship counts.
• Crypto Terminal on the website: the futures section now shows the CFTC report on CME and Coinbase futures by trader group. That is the data members get today; exchange futures data comes with DESK Pro.
• World goods trade example on the home page: World Bank figures instead of IMF trade data.

Fixed

• Website screenshots: values from sources without a commercial licence (ship counts, earnings estimates, altcoin figures) are blurred, and the futures screenshot is replaced. The weekly report screenshot is new.

9 October 202614:06auslieferung-20261009-1406

Everyday prices refreshed daily (diesel was a week behind)

Fixed

• Everyday prices (petrol, diesel): DESK was one week behind the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin; the value for 5 October was missing. The prices are now refreshed daily instead of every three days.

9 October 202613:00auslieferung-20261009-1300

Radar: mark all as read works, no grey highlight

Fixed

• DESK Radar: "Mark all as read" (right-click on DESK Radar in the sidebar) works again. It clears all New labels and counters, and the page no longer jumps.
• Most recent: reports without a direction no longer carry a grey highlight bar. Only red, yellow and green are highlighted; grey means ordinary items.

9 October 202612:32auslieferung-20261009-1232

Radar: grey news marked New again, read stories stay read

Fixed

• DESK Radar: grey news that has just appeared in Most recent is marked New again, with its count in the sidebar. Previously a story was judged by its very first report, so a story that had been running for hours never counted as new, even when it had only just entered the list.
• A story you have already seen stays read when another site picks it up: any link from the story counts as seen.

9 October 202610:00auslieferung-20261009-1000

Radar search: no flicker while typing, no jump after adding

Fixed

• DESK Radar search: the suggestion list no longer flickers while you type. It only animates when it opens.
• Adding a country, resource or company no longer scrolls the page down. The search field stays in view, so you can add the next item right away.

9 October 202609:24auslieferung-20261009-0924

Radar: New fades once seen, counters go down while reading

Improved

• DESK Radar: a "New" label fades once you have actually seen it, after it has been on screen for about 2.5 seconds. Only the labels you saw disappear; everything you have not scrolled to stays marked.
• The counters next to DESK Radar in the sidebar now also show while you are on the Radar and go down as you read.
• What you have seen is remembered in this browser, so it stays read after a reload.

Fixed

• An older news story no longer counts as new just because another site picked it up. New is decided by the story's first report.
• The grey counter in the sidebar now updates as soon as the news stream has loaded, instead of only on the next refresh.

9 October 202608:47auslieferung-20261009-0847

Radar search as a filter: countries like the map, combined searches, filtered news

Improved

• DESK Radar search now works as a filter. A country from the search sets the same filter as clicking it on the map. You no longer get an unsorted overview of every report that mentions the country.
• Resources and companies appear in their own framed block at the top, with a divider before the rest of the Radar.
• Most recent shows only news on what you searched: news on the resource, or company news.
• You can combine searches. Countries combine with "or", as do resources and companies; a country and a resource combine with "and" (e.g. Russia and crude oil, or wheat or corn). Remove a selection with × or Backspace.
• With countries selected, the war cards, Supply & infrastructure, the situation overview and the counters also show only what concerns those countries.
• In the German version, countries can also be found by their English name, and resources too ("Wheat", "Corn").

Fixed

• A commodity now counts for a country only if the tile names that country: among the first three countries under strain or the three largest exporters. Germany was linked to 123 of 126 commodities, as an importer or through a 0.6 % re-export share.
• Most recent filtered to several countries no longer drops all news.

9 October 202608:05auslieferung-20261009-0805

Radar badges: only reports that appeared since your last look

Fixed

• DESK Radar sidebar badges: a report now counts as new only if it first appeared after your last look. Commodity situations used to count again with every fresh headline, which made the red badge show 99+.
• The badges now match the items marked New on the radar exactly, per colour. News already listed as evidence for a report is no longer counted twice in the grey badge.

9 October 202607:12auslieferung-20261009-0712

Night check findings: block height, liquidity price, less noise

Fixed

• Crypto: the block height (halving cycle, mempool) no longer shows a value several hours old after a quiet night.
• Crypto → Bitcoin and liquidity: the Bitcoin price comes from the same daily prices as the cycle charts on every request.

8 October 202622:07auslieferung-20261008-2207

Telegram: data post with Bitcoin, EUR/USD (ECB), Brent

Improved

• Telegram: the data post now shows Bitcoin (live), the EUR/USD reference rate of the ECB and Brent once (U.S. EIA, with its date) — no second delayed oil price

8 October 202621:53auslieferung-20261008-2153

Telegram: why = what changes, data post fallback, never twice

Improved

• Telegram: "why it matters" now answers what changes as a result (prices, supply, trade flows, companies) and prefers the quantities from the report; if fewer than two news meet every rule by 21:00, one data post (Bitcoin, Brent, WTI with change and source) goes out instead of a weak item; the same item (same URL or same event) is never posted twice

8 October 202621:44auslieferung-20261008-2144

Telegram: at least two posts a day

Improved

• Telegram: at least two posts a day where possible — from 14:00 without a post or from 19:00 with fewer than two, the AI picks the best item that still meets every quality rule

8 October 202621:42auslieferung-20261008-2142

Telegram channels: short links, weekly report, start page (switched on with the bot)

Added

• Short links deskalmanac.com/telegram (English channel) and /telegram-de (German channel); calls are counted per day only, without any address or identifier.
• Weekly report (PDF and email): a line with both Telegram channels at the end.
• Start page (/ and /de): a "DESK Alerts on Telegram" button at the top and a tile below the weekly report – shown only once the alerts bot is live.

8 October 202621:33auslieferung-20261008-2133

Telegram: stricter news rules

Improved

• Telegram: stricter news rules — "what happened" at most 20 words and "why it matters" at most 25 (too long is rejected, not shortened); "why it matters" must contain a concrete fact from the item; only items first published within the last 24 hours; German is written as a faithful translation of the English with the same numbers; the source is never named in the text, only in the source line

8 October 202621:21auslieferung-20261008-2121

Telegram: around the clock, second try for rejected drafts

Improved

• Telegram: news run around the clock (still at most 5 posts per calendar day, at least one hour apart); a draft rejected by the automatic check (forbidden word, length) gets one rewrite with the exact reason instead of being dropped

8 October 202621:12auslieferung-20261008-2112

Telegram: live news instead of fixed times

Improved

• Telegram: news are now live instead of at fixed times — every 15 minutes between 07:00 and 22:00 (Berlin) the AI looks at what is new and posts at most one item, only if it matters right now; at least one hour between news posts, at most 5 posts a day in total, the bar rises as the day fills up; daily cost cap

8 October 202620:58auslieferung-20261008-2058

Telegram: 5 posts a day in total, pin fix

Improved

• Telegram: at most 5 posts a day per channel, price alerts and news together

Fixed

• Telegram: if the bot may not pin, the channel description is posted only once and only the pinning is retried (before, it would have been posted again every five minutes)

8 October 202620:49auslieferung-20261008-2049

Sanctions: OFAC actions with press releases; better Telegram news

Added

• Sanctions: what new US sanctions actually are — each OFAC action with its Treasury press release, how many persons, companies and vessels were listed, and examples; shown in the DESK Radar sanctions sheet, in the sanctions tile on country pages and in the weekly report
• Sources: OFAC Recent Actions and U.S. Treasury press releases (public domain)

Improved

• Telegram: news posts with a blank line between title, what happened and why it matters; sanctions are posted only with a concrete OFAC action behind them (press release link, named examples), and each action only once; stricter instructions so posts name who and what instead of repeating counts

8 October 202619:31auslieferung-20261008-1931

Telegram: DESK Alerts bot (dry run)

Added

• Telegram: new bot for the public channels DESK Alerts (EN) and DESK Alerts DE — price alerts (Bitcoin crossing full $5,000 marks via mempool.space, Brent/WTI ±5 % from U.S. EIA closes; indices, gold and stocks wait for licensed prices) and two news runs a day (08:00/18:00 Berlin) where Claude Haiku picks 0–3 DESK Radar items and explains them in EN and DE
• Telegram: every AI field checked in code (≤ 300 characters, no buy/sell/should/price target, no FAO); source and link always come from the Radar item; items based on IMF data stay out; at most 3 price alerts and 5 news posts a day

8 October 202618:37auslieferung-20261008-1837

Privacy policy: social media profiles

Improved

• Privacy policy (English and German): new part "Social media profiles" – Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, joint controllership with Meta for Page Insights, legal basis and your rights.

8 October 202618:29auslieferung-20261008-1829

Sitemap: every weekly report issue

Improved

• The sitemap now also lists every issue of the weekly report (English and German), so search engines find each new issue by itself.

8 October 202618:07auslieferung-20261008-1807

Short links /fb and /x

Added

• Short links for Facebook and X: deskalmanac.com/fb and deskalmanac.com/x (like /tt, /ig and /yt); visits from facebook.com and x.com are recognised as such.

8 October 202617:52auslieferung-20261008-1752

Weekly report: 7-day changes, date per row, sanctions of the week, real sources, German number formats, link to DESK

Improved

• Weekly report: no more empty "Forecast" column; next week shows the last published value of each release.
• Every report ends with a short link back to DESK.

Fixed

• Weekly report: the weekly change of a market now always compares the latest value with the value seven days earlier. Before, a price that ended on Tuesday was compared with the previous Friday (Brent −1.8 % and WTI +12.8 % in the same week).
• Weekly report: every market row shows its own date instead of one date for the whole table.
• Weekly report: sanctions count only what was added in the report week (before: "+48 since 21 Sept." in a report starting on the 28th).
• Weekly report: the sources list only names what the report actually uses.
• Weekly report: calendar values in the German edition use German number formats ("7,1 Mio.", "2,2 %").
• Reports: a German date like "21. September" no longer cuts a sentence in two when the number check removes a sentence.

8 October 202617:38auslieferung-20261008-1738

Crypto: CME/Coinbase futures (CFTC), crypto on balance sheets (SEC), Fed liquidity, mining pools and hashprice

Added

• Crypto → Futures data: CME and Coinbase futures from the weekly CFTC report – open contracts and how hedge funds, asset managers and banks are positioned, for Bitcoin and Ether since 2018. Visible to everyone, below the DESK Pro tile.
• Crypto → Dashboard: crypto on company balance sheets – what 191 US-listed companies and funds hold, split into ETFs, crypto treasury companies (like Strategy) and all others; large view with every company and the history per quarter.
• Company pages → Financials: crypto holdings with history for every company that reports them.
• Crypto → On-Chain: mining pools and hashprice (share of the largest pools, income per unit of computing power, block fullness).
• Crypto → Cycles: Bitcoin next to the Fed's net liquidity and the M2 money supply; a place for correlations (DESK Pro).

Improved

• Crypto → Cycles: Puell Multiple and the cycle signals no longer take up to 15 seconds after a server restart.
• The formulas of the new figures are on the methodology page.

8 October 202616:46auslieferung-20261008-1646

Crypto ETF tab: clear notice when Farside is unreachable

Fixed

• Crypto → ETF flows: when Farside Investors cannot be reached, the tab now says so plainly instead of the generic "market data could not be loaded".

8 October 202614:24auslieferung-20261008-1424

Radar: New since your last look, four colored counters in the sidebar

Improved

• DESK Radar in the sidebar: four counters instead of one, in red (under strain and major events), gold (expanding), green (easing) and grey (other news and records).

Fixed

• DESK Radar: "New" now means new since your last look at the radar, judged by the time shown next to each report, so a report from an hour ago is new and an old one is not. The marks survive a page reload, and the news headlines under Most recent get them too.

8 October 202613:50auslieferung-20261008-1350

DESK runs on the netcup server; privacy policy names netcup

Improved

• DESK now runs on a rented server in the EU instead of a phone: more memory, faster responses and no more interruptions when the phone ends background apps.

8 October 202608:22auslieferung-20261008-0822

Telegram night reports only list what needs fixing; GDELT fallback calmer; WebKit found by the scheduled task

Improved

• Company pages: when the news search at GDELT is slow or throttled, the page no longer waits for it again and again. It pauses that search for an hour (six hours after throttling) and shows DESK's own news index.

8 October 202607:47auslieferung-20261008-0747

Night fixes: news country buttons only for real countries, SEC retry, calmer night checks

Fixed

• News: country buttons now appear only for countries that have their own country page. Territories such as the Cook Islands no longer show up as a bare code that leads nowhere.
• Company pages: SEC filings are fetched again once after a dropped connection instead of failing straight away.

7 October 202617:09auslieferung-20261007-1709

Hormuz page: dataset license for Google

Fixed

• Strait of Hormuz page: the dataset markup now names its license (Google Search Console: missing field "license"); it points to the sources section, which lists the license of each source.

7 October 202607:38auslieferung-20261007-0738

Night checks: walk stops at 850 MB free, honest watchdog message, call watcher and GDELT check without false alarms

Fixed

• Night checks: the UI walk now stops a step at 850 MB free instead of 450 MB. Android ended Termux at 710 MB free on 7 October.
• The watchdog no longer reports "The phone restarted" when Termux was ended and the phone was only restarted hours later by hand.
• Call watcher: only a real jump in requests counts (above the highest day plus the largest day-to-day jump seen), not a handful more than ever before.
• GDELT check: looks for each story's link in the file of the report it comes from, which can be many hours older than the story's newest report.

6 October 202621:20auslieferung-20261006-2120

Cancel the subscription in the settings via Paddle, with take-back

Added

• Cancel your subscription right in the settings (Subscription): DESK cancels it with Paddle at the end of the paid month, confirms by email, and you can take the cancellation back until then. The cancellation form at /cancel does the same for ordinary cancellations; a cancellation in Paddle's customer portal shows up in the settings too.

6 October 202620:55auslieferung-20261006-2055

Paddle checkout built and tested in the sandbox (payments still off live); privacy policy on the checkout

Improved

• Privacy policy: what the checkout keeps until the payment is confirmed (at most 24 hours, password only as a hash) and that only the checkout page loads Paddle's payment window.

6 October 202617:58auslieferung-20261006-1758

Extra security layer: scripts only with checksum (no unsafe-inline); sitemap dates by real change

Improved

• Extra security layer: scripts only run if DESK wrote them itself. Every page now names its own scripts by checksum, so code smuggled into a page is blocked by the browser.
• The sitemap now dates the sample pages (Spain, Apple, Strait of Hormuz, report archive) by their last real change instead of today.

6 October 202615:22auslieferung-20261006-1522

Click test of every button: Esc closes all windows, clickable areas work with the keyboard, SEC filing time capped at now

Fixed

• Esc now closes every window: two-factor setup, fees & costs, earnings detail, follower list, your messages, the coin picture in the dictionary and every confirmation dialog.
• Clickable chips, cards, table cells, calendar days, members and dictionary tiles work with the keyboard too (Tab, Enter, Space).
• DESK Radar: an SEC filing from today no longer carries a time in the future.

6 October 202613:14auslieferung-20261006-1314

Nightly checks close five gaps (all SEC figures, earnings revenue, rivers, calculated indicators, DESK Score recomputed); futures data blocked

Improved

• Night checks now also verify: every SEC company figure (cash flow, R&D, equity, assets, liabilities, dividend, shares, quarters) against the filings, the quarterly revenue of the earnings list, the river lines of the world map, the five calculated indicators from their components, and the DESK Score of every country from its ranks and weights.

6 October 202611:27auslieferung-20261006-1127

Night checks save the source-round progress right after the sources

Fixed

• Night checks: the progress of the source round is saved right after the sources are checked. Before, a crash later in the night threw the round back, and the same sources were checked night after night.

6 October 202610:45auslieferung-20261006-1045

Community: O2L group (Talk, Q&A), POTE Q&A and Talk; O2L code with group and badge; grouped member list; DESK mark for the DESK account

Added

• Community: a new O2L group with Talk and Q&A for O2L members and admins; Pursuit of Trading Excellence gets a Q&A, and its General channel is now called Talk.
• An O2L community code: memorable, stored only as a hash, early-access price of €49 and the badge "O2L".

Improved

• Member list: roles of one group (O2L Admin and O2L, or the two early-access codes) stand under one heading, admins first.
• Next to the name in chat, the DESK account shows "DESK" instead of "PRO"; DESK Pro members keep "PRO".

6 October 202610:21auslieferung-20261006-1021

Military-sites build retries truncated Wikidata answers; layout check also in WebKit (Safari)

Fixed

• The daily military-sites update no longer fails when Wikidata cuts a long answer short; it tries again up to four times.

6 October 202609:53auslieferung-20261006-0953

Radar Most recent: five pinned colour reports, then a 24-hour stream, scrollable; home page weekly-report button and cleaner links; dashboard frame and phone email field fixed

Improved

• DESK Radar, Most recent: on top the five newest red, yellow and green reports of the last 48 hours, below them everything from the last 24 hours by time; older reports leave the list and stay in the tiles below. The tile now scrolls without enlarging it.
• Home page: a "Free · The DESK weekly report" button above the Strait of Hormuz button leads straight to the sign-up; the links under the weekly report sit in two labelled rows.

Fixed

• Custom dashboard: the golden placeholder frame could stay on screen after resizing a widget when the release of the mouse or finger was not registered.
• Home page on phones: the email field of the weekly report was squeezed to a thin line.

6 October 202609:03auslieferung-20261006-0903

Single-use community codes; own profile badge per role (two roles may share Early Access)

Improved

• A community code can be single-use: once any account holds its role, the code no longer works for anyone, at sign-up, in the checkout or in the settings.
• Each role can carry its own profile badge, and two roles may share one (the free and the 49 € early-access codes both show "Early Access").

6 October 202608:27auslieferung-20261006-0827

Night checks no longer kill the phone's terminal: test servers stay attached, memory guard covers whole process tree and the UI walk; route scanner, quarterly-figure check and share-class tickers fixed; proxy-addr 2.0.8

Fixed

• The night checks no longer take the phone's terminal down: test servers started by three checks could detach themselves and keep running after the check, piling up in memory night after night. They now stay attached and end with their check.
• The memory guard of the night checks now counts every process a check starts and ends all of them; the interface walk-through has its own guard and is skipped the next night if it was running when the phone ran out of memory.
• Night report: the route scanner found no routes since yesterday's security change; a missing SEC figure no longer aborts the quarterly-results check; share-class tickers such as "MAERSK A" are accepted.

5 October 202616:46auslieferung-20261005-1646

Community codes stored only as SHA-256 hash; random codes, shown once

Improved

• Secret community codes are now stored only as a SHA-256 hash; a new code is generated at random (64 characters) and shown once. Short guessable codes are refused; only the public early-access code may stay readable.
• The server reports any secret code that is still stored in plain text.

5 October 202616:24auslieferung-20261005-1624

Security check: playbook code out of the public bundle, code redemption rate-limited, route errors no longer stop the server

Fixed

• Security check: the code of the retired Trading Playbook (chart practice with the course setups) and its introduction texts are no longer part of the app bundle that every visitor loads.
• The page shell no longer carries developer comments.
• Redeeming a community code from inside an account is now rate-limited like registration, so codes cannot be tried out in bulk.
• An error inside a page request can no longer stop the whole server; the request gets an error answer instead.

5 October 202611:54auslieferung-20261005-1154

Price €99, €49 with the early-access code EARLY49; fixed-price codes; SEC names without state suffix

Improved

• DESK now lists at €99 a month; during early access the code EARLY49 brings it to €49, shown on the pricing page, the start page, the checkout and the comparison and press pages.
• A community code can now carry a fixed monthly price instead of a percentage; the checkout shows the regular price struck through next to the price with the code.
• German pages write prices the German way (99 €).

Fixed

• SEC company names no longer carry the state of incorporation that the SEC appends to some of them (for example "INC \TX\" or "CORPORATIONDE").

5 October 202610:41auslieferung-20261005-1041

Every source check covers its whole list within 30 days; night checks from 1 a.m.; leaner readers

Improved

• Every source check now works through its whole list within 30 days at most: readers with long lists (EU and Japanese annual reports, GLEIF subsidiaries, stock symbols, SEC names, GeoNames, USGS, BACI years, store locations, German annual reports) take a fifth of their list per run and remember where they stopped; a round that takes longer is reported.
• Company news on company pages: companies that cannot be checked live in one night now wait in a queue and come first the next night; the impact check runs for every company.
• The night checks start at 1 a.m.; the backup runs at 0:30.

Fixed

• Several readers chose their sample by calendar day although they run every fifth night, so parts of their lists were never checked; the store-location check always took the same 40 companies.
• The EU annual-report check now reads reports piece by piece, so reports over 60 MB (about a third) are checked too, with less memory.
• Source checks no longer load the whole macro module unless they need it, which lowers their memory use considerably.

5 October 202609:19auslieferung-20261005-0919

IMF trade check: rows processed as they arrive, memory 1.1 GB to 0.76 GB

Fixed

• The IMF trade check now processes each row as it arrives instead of collecting all of them, which cuts its memory use from about 1.1 GB to 0.76 GB with identical results; it was the likely cause of the phone restarting during the night checks.

5 October 202608:42auslieferung-20261005-0842

Night checks: memory guard per check instead of a phone restart

Fixed

• The night checks now watch the phone's memory every second and stop a single check before the phone runs out, instead of the whole phone restarting.

4 October 202622:11auslieferung-20261004-2211

Short addresses /tt, /ig and /yt for bios

Added

• Short addresses deskalmanac.com/tt, /ig and /yt lead to the start page and count the visit as coming from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube.

4 October 202621:52auslieferung-20261004-2152

Newsletter: signup source and Telegram notice; German reports: owners' share of net income and equity

Added

• Newsletter sign-ups now record where a subscriber came from (the campaign label in the link, or the kind of referring site); the start page passes it along in its own links without storing anything in the browser.
• The operator gets a short notice for each confirmed newsletter subscription with a shortened address and the number of subscriptions per source.

Improved

• German company reports now give net income and equity attributable to the shareholders of the parent company where the report shows that line, like the SEC, ESEF, OpenDART and EDINET data.

4 October 202621:11auslieferung-20261004-2111

Company sites checked against OpenStreetMap; CSN Mineração entry; methodology updated

Improved

• Methodology page: the rule for company sites and the current scope of the source checks (86 readers, every source every five nights; ten live sources every night).

Fixed

• Companies map: a company site whose coordinate lies outside its country is now checked against OpenStreetMap. Sites confirmed there stay (also small territories such as Gibraltar), sites whose coordinate lies in another country that Wikidata also gives take that country (Kraft Heinz in Chicago was listed as British, a Tokyo DisneySea ride as American, Kering Eyewear as French, Nasdaq in New York as Swedish), and sites no source confirms are left out (Indian post offices placed in Estonia and Nigeria, a Japanese railway line in Nicaragua).
• CSN Mineração has its current Wikidata entry again (the old one was merged and deleted).

4 October 202620:30auslieferung-20261004-2030

End uses for soda ash and talc corrected; food search stays current; independent checks for all live sources

Fixed

• Raw materials, end uses (USGS): soda ash was missing chemicals (28 %) and talc was missing roofing (8 %) and rubber (2 %) — the PDF reader took the text of two-column pages in the wrong order and split "2 8 %". End uses are now read in the order of the page.
• Food search: values from Open Food Facts and USDA stay current. Before, every search result was kept and later searches showed the stored copy, even when the source had corrected a value. Diary entries keep the values from the day they were logged.

4 October 202619:19auslieferung-20261004-1919

Daily energy prices corrected (EIA tables instead of the API); five more independent source checks

Fixed

• Daily energy prices (DESK Impact, reports): about 180 days were wrong because the EIA API delivered prices on days without trading (25 December, 1 January, Good Friday), Brent shifted by one day around the turn of 2016/17 (28 December: 53.93 instead of 54.95) and a few missing days. DESK now reads the EIA's own history tables; they agree with FRED day by day.

4 October 202618:57auslieferung-20261004-1857

Country names in Radar and Impact follow the page language; UCDP and Pink Sheet checks fetch their files themselves

Improved

• DESK Radar and DESK Impact name countries in the language of the page (German: "Australien", "Südkorea"; English: "South Korea" instead of "Korea, Rep."), also in sorting and search.

4 October 202618:34auslieferung-20261004-1834

DESK Impact: main supplier share fixed, every card type checked nightly

Fixed

• DESK Impact, raw-material prices: the share of the main supplier among the largest importers is a real percentage again (natural gas: Australia 17 % of China's imports, not 1,740 %).

4 October 202617:54auslieferung-20261004-1754

Large companies: revenue keeps its own year

Fixed

• Large companies: revenue keeps its own year. A company carries one year for all its figures; when its revenue came from an earlier year than its profit (Comfort Systems: 2024 revenue next to 2025 profit), the revenue was labelled with the later year. The company map reads the revenue year the same way.

4 October 202617:15auslieferung-20261004-1715

Pricing locked until launch: plan shows Coming soon, accounts open with a community code; regions, large companies and subsidiaries corrected; fifteen more independent source checks

Improved

• Pricing: the DESK plan is marked "Coming soon" and can no longer be chosen. For now, accounts open with a community code: "Have a developer login?" at the bottom of the plan takes the code and opens account creation with the code already applied under "Your plan". Without a code, the checkout leads back to the pricing page.
• Methodology page: the euro rule and the definition of net income and equity are documented.

Fixed

• Regions: areas are converted from their unit (English cities stood in square metres as km², Grenada and Sheffield in square miles); heads of government, parties and capitals only in current office (Madhya Pradesh still showed the chief minister of 2003, Telangana and several Chinese provinces the previous one; offices that no longer exist are no longer shown); names in any language form.
• Large companies: every figure is converted at the rate of its own year, as everywhere else in DESK — before, past years used today's rate (Allianz 2024: 202 instead of 195 bn $).
• Country company tables: a subsidiary no longer appears next to its parent (Volkswagen twice in Germany, Mercedes-Benz AG next to the group); major shareholders do not count as parents.
• Euro amounts from years after 1999 are converted at the euro rate, also for countries that joined the euro later (Croatia 2014 used the kuna route).
• European annual reports: net income and equity now mean the owners' share of the parent, as with SEC, EDINET and OpenDART.
• Institutions map: countries follow the headquarters (FedEx and the Commonwealth were Canadian, Morgan Stanley British); "ADQ" pointed to a Quebec party instead of the Abu Dhabi fund.

4 October 202614:13auslieferung-20261004-1413

Several dashboards with sharing, candlestick widget, more companies on one map, My Maps overlays stay with their map

Added

• Several dashboards: a tab bar on the Custom dashboard – + adds one, a double-click renames it, a right-click duplicates or deletes it.
• Share a dashboard by direct message, to a channel, or as a file; whoever receives it adds it with one click, and it appears under Shared dashboards – just like shared maps.
• A TradingView candlestick chart as a widget, with interval and symbol search.
• The Market Geometry chart can now be added to the dashboard: with the new button above the chart or by right-clicking its heading.
• Companies World Map: up to four more companies on the same map, each in its own colour (headquarters, sites and branches), removable as chips.

Improved

• Widgets that exist only on the dashboard (world clock, notes, timer …) can be duplicated with a right-click and renamed with a double-click on their name.
• Numbers are only gold and clickable where a history stands behind them – no more empty charts.
• The delete × on dashboard widgets turns red, as everywhere else in DESK.

Fixed

• My Maps: overlays stay with their map. Moving, duplicating or deleting a map, or the account version loading a moment later, could write the overlays of the open map into another one.

4 October 202613:06auslieferung-20261004-1306

Countries: euro, Denmark and current memberships fixed; Dutch companies, rivers and military sites have their country again; new independent source checks

Fixed

• Countries: the euro was missing as the currency of every euro-area country, Denmark was missing entirely, and memberships that have ended were still shown (the United Kingdom in the EU, Sweden, Finland, Austria and Portugal in EFTA, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in ECOWAS); South Africa's form of government read "apartheid". Current memberships that were missing are now shown (for example WTO and the Council of Europe for Armenia, the EU and NATO for the Netherlands). New office holders whose name exists only as a multilingual label are no longer dropped (Madagascar still showed the deposed president).
• The Netherlands and Denmark in Wikidata-based data: their country code is marked "deprecated" in Wikidata, so Dutch companies, sites and rivers had no country. The large-company list now has 81 Dutch companies instead of 1, the Rhine runs through the Netherlands again, and 23 military sites got their country back.
• Military sites: operators are no longer limited to the top-ranked entry (Al Udeid now lists the Qatar Emiri Air Force, the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force).
• Country company tables: a company is shown only in the country of its headquarters, now for every company (Uber appeared in the Dutch table).
• Large companies: the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) is no longer listed as a company.
• European annual figures: where a company filed two versions of the same annual report, DESK now takes the one without errors (CPI Property Group was shown without figures).

4 October 202610:31auslieferung-20261004-1031

DESK AI reads DESK's news; widget entries sync with their page; compact quote of the day; Factbook marked January 2026

Improved

• DESK AI reads the news DESK shows (News page and Radar): it searches the headlines by words in any order, confirms a reported item with outlet and date, and then explains what it usually means — the direction and the channels, as general economic relationships, not as a forecast.
• Entries made in a dashboard widget (for example the daily state in Life & Spirit or the lists in Market Geometry) now appear at once on the original page and in every other open DESK window.
• Life & Spirit: the quote of the day is only as tall as the quote instead of a large box with the quote in the middle.
• Country pages: everything that still comes from the CIA World Factbook is marked "last updated January 2026" (the CIA discontinued it in February 2026); a "next election" date that has already passed is no longer shown. Heads of state and government, form of government, parliament and memberships come from Wikidata as before.

4 October 202609:58auslieferung-20261004-0958

Night checks no longer exhaust the phone's memory: own limit per check, IMTS check 2.4 GB to 0.9 GB

Fixed

• Night checks: each check process now gets its own memory limit matched to its measured need, instead of inheriting the server's 2 GB. The server plus one unbounded check had exhausted the phone's memory and restarted it in the middle of the night checks. A check only starts when there is room; if one still runs out, only that check stops and it runs again the next night.
• The trade (IMTS) check needed 2.4 GB of memory; it now keeps only the five fields it compares (0.9 GB) and finds the same 263,145 values.
• The population pyramid check reads the large UN table line by line instead of loading it whole.

3 October 202619:43auslieferung-20261003-1943

Port codes shared by two ports, Micronesia time zone, GEM series kept during World Bank outages; readers for PortWatch, time zones and cities

Improved

• Data checks: independent readers for IMF PortWatch (straits and ports), IANA time zones (each zone is also tested against the clock) and Natural Earth cities (read from the original shapefile).

Fixed

• Ports: seven port codes are shared by two ports in IMF PortWatch, and the smaller one won (Zhoushan showed the 273 ships of Qushan Island instead of 6,370; Ensenada showed an LNG terminal with 4). The port with the most traffic now keeps the code; the other is kept under its own number.
• Time zones: Micronesia showed the Chuuk time zone instead of Pohnpei (where the capital lies); the time zones are rebuilt from the capital's position.
• Global Economic Monitor: when the World Bank is unreachable, a monthly series is no longer dropped; the previous series stays until the next successful run.

3 October 202619:25auslieferung-20261003-1925

17 more independent data readers; fixed double-counted drug seizures, outdated ICP 2011 figures, missing Taiwan in monthly GEM series, split conflict-party names, 0 m airport elevations

Improved

• Data checks: 17 more sources now have their own independent reader that reads the original data in a different format or through a different channel than the build and compares every value: UN SDG, ILO, IDMC, OECD tax rates, the IMF SDR rate (recomputed from the currency basket), UN migrant stock, World Mining Data, UNODC, CIA World Factbook, Global Economic Monitor, International Debt Statistics, Eurostat energy imports by origin, monthly temperatures, OECD financial markets, US sanctions lists, airports and UCDP conflict parties; price levels (ICP) and population pyramids are recomputed from scratch.
• Methodology page: describes which ICP revision is used and how duplicate drug seizure reports are counted.

Fixed

• Drug seizures: a seizure reported through two channels with the same quantity was counted twice (Myanmar 2024 methamphetamine showed 83.1 t instead of 41.5 t; 33 cases). Each is now counted once.
• Price levels (ICP): the 2011 round now uses the World Bank's revised figures from ICP 2017 instead of the superseded first release.
• Taiwan was missing from all eleven monthly series of the World Bank's Global Economic Monitor (inflation, unemployment, trade, reserves and more); it is now included.
• Conflict parties: names that contain a comma (for example "Military Junta for the Consolidation of Democracy, Peace and Justice") were split into two half-names.
• Airports without an elevation in the source showed 0 m (37 airports); they now show no elevation.
• Working hours (ILO): when the ILO's main download returns nothing, DESK now falls back to the ILO's SDMX service, so the data no longer go stale.

3 October 202618:02auslieferung-20261003-1802

Nightly encrypted backup with test restore, mail delivery check without test mails, layout check in a real browser, four new independent data readers; phone layout and USGS zero values fixed

Added

• Nightly encrypted backup of all account data (accounts, settings, journals, portfolios, uploads). Every backup is checked by a test restore, a second copy is kept on separate storage and a further copy is fetched by the operator's computer every day; backups are deleted after 35 days at the latest.
• Mail delivery check that sends no test mails: DESK checks its sender records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX), counts whether real mails went out and, once connected, reads the delivery figures of the mail provider.
• Layout check in a real browser: 141 views at three screen sizes (MacBook, laptop, phone) are checked for content wider than the screen, overlapping or hidden buttons, cut-off text and empty charts.

Improved

• Data checks: new independent readers for FAO, USGS minerals, Penn World Table and the Maddison Project. They read the original files in a different format than the builds (Stata instead of Excel, original release instead of a mirror) and compare every country and year.
• Privacy policy: new section on backups (where they are kept, how long, encryption).

Fixed

• Phone: News, Reports, Impact, the trade chain and the Macro dashboard were wider than the screen; the zoom button no longer covers "All news".
• Trade chain: the controls at the top no longer push the page sideways at 1280 px.
• Minerals: 45 countries showed a production of 0 where the USGS reported nothing, and so appeared on the map as the smallest producer. They are now grey; the latest value always comes from the finished series.

3 October 202614:53auslieferung-20261003-1453

Night checks run by hand for a full two-week cycle: fixes for IMF trade editions, SEC company figures, bank revenue, fiscal-year exchange rates, region IDs, Gulf tariffs and bond yields

Fixed

• Trade in goods (IMF): when the IMF publishes a new edition of its figures, DESK now fetches the whole series of the affected country at once — before, older years and months could stay on the previous edition for up to three months.
• Company figures from SEC filings: a value from a shareholder-meeting document (rounded to millions) could replace the exact figure from the annual report in some years (e.g. Amphenol 2023); only financial statements count now.
• Company pages: a bank's partial revenue item (e.g. Regions Financial, 58 million dollars next to 1.16 billion profit) no longer shows as its revenue.
• Company pages: where two entries share one SEC number (DiDi), the page shows the series of the right entry.
• Companies with a fiscal year ending in March and figures in a foreign currency (e.g. Vodafone, National Grid) are now converted at the rate of the year the fiscal year is named after, as the methodology says.
• Regions map: units that carried another unit's Wikidata ID (e.g. old municipalities in Latvia, regions of Madagascar) no longer show borrowed population figures; duplicate units appear once.
• Electricity tariffs in the Gulf: a tariff older than four years now disappears as soon as it turns four, not only at the next weekly build.
• 10-year government bond yields: a failed update can no longer replace the series with an empty file.
• Crypto on-chain: miner revenue no longer goes missing for hours after a server start.

3 October 202611:08auslieferung-20261003-1108

Live news: new reports appear without reloading as soon as GDELT publishes them; DESK checks GDELT every minute

Added

• Live news: new reports appear on the News page, in DESK Radar "Most recent", in the Macro and Crypto news tiles and in dashboard widgets as soon as GDELT publishes them — without reloading. New lines slide in at the top and light up briefly; a "Live" dot shows the connection is open.

Improved

• DESK now checks GDELT every minute for a new file instead of every 15 minutes, so new reports reach DESK one to two minutes after GDELT publishes them instead of up to 15 minutes later.
• Times next to news ("5 min") now count up on their own.

Fixed

• Fresh reports showed "1 min" for about ten minutes, because GDELT stamps its files ahead of time; a report's time is now when GDELT published it.
• News page: the news stream header no longer runs under the enlarge button.

3 October 202609:41auslieferung-20261003-0941

Enlarging a tile in a dashboard widget grows out of the tile and returns into it

Fixed

• Custom dashboard: enlarging a tile inside a widget now grows smoothly out of the tile itself and shrinks back into it when closed — before, the whole page briefly turned into the tile first.
• The same works for every enlarge button inside a widget, including coin charts, factbook rows and Macro indicators; anything that opens another way is moved to full size as well.

3 October 202608:46auslieferung-20261003-0846

Enlarge in dashboard widgets opens over the whole dashboard; widgets repair themselves; Radar Most recent shows the most-reported news and follows the filters; news calendar shows today

Improved

• Custom dashboard: the enlarge button inside a widget now opens the enlarged view over the whole dashboard, just like on the page itself — for every tile that can be enlarged (Radar, WHOOP, charts, maps, dossiers).
• DESK Radar, "Most recent": the most-reported news of the last 24 hours (at least two sites) now appear between the Radar reports, and the filters above (level, countries, effect) apply to the whole list.
• News: the monthly calendar in the sidebar shows today's events without a click.

Fixed

• A widget that could not find its tile (for example the monthly journal calendar after the month changed) now repairs itself instead of showing "This tile is not there right now".
• Big stories that also served as evidence of a commodity situation (e.g. the G-7 release of diesel and crude) no longer disappear from "Most recent".

3 October 202607:48auslieferung-20261003-0748

Nothing else runs during the night checks; watchdog keeps the memory history across phone restarts and reports it

Improved

• The watchdog writes the phone's free memory, the memory used by the server and the current night-check step to disk every minute (last six hours). If the phone restarts, it reports on the next start when the last sign of life was, which night-check step was running and how much memory was left.
• The night checks record which step is running, so an interruption says where it happened.
• The crash diagnosis reads the phone's start time the way Android allows and shows the memory history.

Fixed

• During the night checks nothing else runs any more: the daily data builds, the six-hourly place refresh (its own process with up to 3 GB) and the hourly Wikidata run wait until the checks are done. On 3 October the phone restarted in the middle of the night checks because its memory ran out.

3 October 202607:31auslieferung-20261003-0731

Watchdog updates itself, resends notices it could not send, and reports memory before a restart; crash diagnosis command

Improved

• The watchdog that restarts the server when it stops answering now updates itself: when its file changes (after every update), it restarts with the new code. Until now it kept running the version from the day it was started.
• If a watchdog notice cannot be sent (no network), it is no longer lost: it is retried every minute for six hours and arrives with a note on how late it is.
• A restart notice now says how much memory the phone had free and how much all server processes used in the 15 minutes before — so the cause of a crash can be read off directly.

3 October 202607:13auslieferung-20261003-0713

Server restarts itself with 2 GB if started with the small memory limit; exchange rates fetched at most twice a day; fewer false alarms

Improved

• Fewer false alarms: a rate limit (429) from a data source when DESK kept to its pace now only counts in the daily report the first time in a day; a notice comes when it happens again the same day or DESK itself was too fast. A network connection closed by the other side is counted, not reported straight away.

Fixed

• If the server is started without the larger memory limit (for example by an older boot script after the phone restarts), it now restarts itself once with 2 GB instead of running the night checks with 1.1 GB.
• The hourly refresh of the company profiles fetched today's exchange rates every time (20 of the 24 allowed calls a day). All build scripts now share one copy that is renewed at most every twelve hours; if a fetch fails, the last rates stay in use.

2 October 202617:32auslieferung-20261002-1732

Trading ruleset, preparation checklist and risk management moved to Market Geometry, with new Setups and Trade management lists; Enter saves and Esc cancels; Spirit page rearranged

Added

• Market Geometry: two new lists of your own in the style of the trading ruleset — "Setups" and "Trade management". You write the lines yourself; nothing is prefilled.

Improved

• The trading ruleset, the preparation checklist and risk management moved from Spirit to Market Geometry. They now stand in the right-hand column under the Library, next to the diagrams, where there was an empty area before. Widgets of these tiles on your custom dashboard move with them.
• Editing a list: Enter saves and locks it, Esc cancels and restores the lines as they were when you opened it. After the pencil the cursor is already in the first empty line, and Tab goes from line to line.
• Spirit: the quote of the day now stands at the top right next to the introduction, and daily performance, performance calendar, notes and metrics are in one row at the same height. The page is about the mental side only.

Fixed

• An open list lost what had just been typed when something else redrew the page within half a second (for example the pencil of the neighbouring list).

2 October 202616:50auslieferung-20261002-1650

Function check: report button on the website, complete sources list, flags for all ISO territories, privacy policy and terms updated, ticker rates through DESK's own server

Added

• Community: messages and members can now be reported on the website too — the flag next to a message (channels and direct messages) or "Report member" in the menu of a profile. Until now only the DESK Floor app had this.
• Sources page: three entries that were missing — the flag images (flag-icons, MIT), the country code table and the product names of the Harmonized System (both DataHub, ODC PDDL).
• Flags for the 31 ISO territories outside the World Bank list (Montserrat, Vatican City, Western Sahara, Réunion, the Falkland Islands …). Their flag stayed blank before.

Improved

• Privacy policy: new section on support requests, cancellations and email; the interface preferences now name the sidebar and the custom dashboard; how long support requests and cancellations are kept. Terms of use: reporting on the website. The About page was brought up to date (News, Radar and Impact, portfolio, community and DESK AI; books and videos are no longer part of DESK).
• The exchange rates of the ticker tape now come through DESK's own server. It was the last request a browser sent to a data provider directly; the content security policy no longer allows that address.
• Notices to the operator about support requests, cancellations and reports carry only the number, the kind and a short code of the account — no email address, name or message text. A cancellation is sent to the support mailbox with all details instead.

Fixed

• The warning shortly before the monthly AI allowance is used up now counts in DESK Credits like the rest of the app.

2 October 202615:52auslieferung-20261002-1552

Custom dashboard: new move logic with live preview, edge scrolling, widgets added at the bottom, faster loading, Direct Messages widget

Improved

• Custom dashboard, moving and resizing: rebuilt. Only the tiles that are in the way make room — first upwards into the space that became free (this is how two tiles swap), otherwise downwards — and everything else stays where it is. While you drag you already see the result; releasing takes over exactly what is shown, Esc cancels.
• Custom dashboard: when you drag a tile to the top or bottom edge of the screen, the page scrolls along, so a tile can be placed below the others.
• Custom dashboard: a new widget is now added at the bottom instead of on top, so nothing you have arranged moves; the page scrolls to it and marks it.
• Custom dashboard: widgets load much faster. Three load side by side instead of one after the other, and they share the data they all need instead of each fetching it again (measured with nine widgets: about a third of the time, half the requests).

Fixed

• Custom dashboard: "Direct Messages" as a widget showed the list of channels. A right-click on "Direct Messages" or "Friends" in the Community now adds exactly that area; the widget shows your conversations.
• Moving one tile no longer rearranges the whole dashboard.
• A timeout at Wikidata is no longer reported as a server error: the info card tries a second time and otherwise shows the last stored version.

2 October 202614:37auslieferung-20261002-1437

Conflict map: dots only where UCDP knows the place; war start day only from exactly dated events

Improved

• Under the conflict map a line now states which share of the year's recorded deaths is drawn as dots; the map note explains the rule and what UCDP records (at least one death and an organised actor; a pair of opponents from 25 deaths in a calendar year).
• Methodology: new lines on dots, first day, entries and UCDP's recording rules.

Fixed

• Conflict map (Macro Terminal, Force & conflict, and the conflict layer on other maps): a dot is now drawn only where UCDP knows the place of an event to within about 25 km. Events that UCDP can place only by district, province or country carry the centre of that area as their coordinate — summary entries for whole wars stood as one large dot in the geographic middle of a country where nothing had happened. These events still count in every country and conflict figure.
• Start day of a war (Strait of Hormuz page, DESK Impact): only an event with an exact date sets it. An entry dated to a whole month or year no longer makes a war "start" on the first day of that period.

2 October 202613:49auslieferung-20261002-1349

Search Console: breadcrumbs without address-less level, dataset coverage as Place

Fixed

• Public country, company and Strait of Hormuz pages: the breadcrumb data for search engines no longer contains a level without an address ("Countries", "Companies", "Sea routes") — Google Search Console reported it as "Missing field item".
• Public country pages: the dataset description now states its coverage as a place, as Google expects ("Invalid object type for field spatialCoverage").

2 October 202613:31auslieferung-20261002-1331

News quality: most reported first, relevance by headline, supply tile by time, stable Most recent

Added

• News page: the stream now opens with Most reported · 24 h — the stories that the most sites reported in the last 24 hours come first, with the number of sources. One button switches back to "newest first"; the choice is remembered.
• DESK Radar, Supply & infrastructure: export stops and export bans (for example a country suspending fuel exports), output decisions and attacks on tankers are now reported, next to outages and restarts of pipelines, refineries, ports and power plants.

Improved

• What counts as news is now decided by the headline itself: it has to be about war and violence, sanctions and blockades, unrest, state and foreign policy, or the economy and finance. Entertainment, sport and everyday items are left out, as are police reports and local politics.
• DESK Radar, Evidence: every article listed as evidence must name the subject of the report in its own headline. A report without a single such headline is no longer shown.
• DESK Radar, Supply & infrastructure: ordered by time only, the newest event on top. A gold line is no longer pinned to the top; the gold highlight lasts 72 hours after the first report, then the line keeps its place and loses the colour.
• DESK Radar, Most recent: ordered by the time a report first appeared. A report keeps its place until a newer one appears, and nothing is cut from the list after it has been read.
• The news stream now reads every GDELT file (one every 15 minutes) instead of one per hour, so far fewer articles are missed and source counts are complete.
• The same event in different words ("halts", "suspends", "blocks", "bans" exports) is now recognised as one story.

Fixed

• Reports in "Most recent" no longer disappear on reload: a country report that met the rule stays for 24 hours instead of flickering in and out at the edge of the rule.
• Headlines such as "Port Adelaide … shut down talk" (sport), "campaign stop at … port" or look-backs on earlier years are no longer read as supply events.
• A site name at the end of a headline ("| News, Sports, Jobs") no longer makes a report count as sport.

2 October 202611:58auslieferung-20261002-1158

Economic calendar: TradingView Forecasts view removed again

Improved

• News › economic calendar: the "Forecasts" view (TradingView's calendar) added earlier today is removed again. It was too large, had to be filtered by country every time and broke with the look of the page. The calendar tile and the news stream are back in their usual places.

2 October 202611:38auslieferung-20261002-1138

Economic calendar: Forecasts view (TradingView); Fed nowcasts prepared behind the licence lock

Added

• News › economic calendar: a second view, "Forecasts". It switches the calendar tile to TradingView's economic calendar, which shows the analysts' forecast next to the actual and the previous value for every release. TradingView delivers and displays these figures itself; DESK does not process them. The tile uses the full height in this view, and your choice is remembered.

2 October 202610:49auslieferung-20261002-1049

Setup for new accounts: choose what your sidebar shows; Settings > Sidebar

Added

• A short setup for new accounts: after choosing the language, DESK asks what brings you here (active trading, investing, crypto, macro & geopolitics) and what it should do for you. Only the areas you tick appear in your sidebar – a crypto-only member no longer starts with fifteen entries. Nothing is removed from your plan: links, addresses and keyboard shortcuts still open every area.
• Settings › Sidebar: show or hide each area with one click, "Show all", and "Ask me again" to repeat the start questions. When areas are hidden, the sidebar says so ("4 more areas") and leads there.

2 October 202610:12auslieferung-20261002-1012

Night watch: FRED check repaired, interface walk now runs on the phone

Fixed

• The nightly check of the US calendar figures against FRED works again. Since the calendar keeps its figures across restarts (1 October), the check stopped with an internal error before comparing a single value.

2 October 202608:02auslieferung-20261002-0802

Night findings fixed: SEC typo rule, Wikidata pacing, daily government data

Fixed

• Company pages: a value dated after the day its own filing was submitted is now left out. American Airlines' quarterly report of July 2026 gives its share count as of July 2027 (a typing error in the report), which showed up as a quarter in the future.
• Government data (heads of state, governments, alliances) is refreshed every day again. Its own timer was reset by every server restart, so on days with several updates it never ran.
• The info card for organisations and companies no longer fails with an error at night: DESK now paces its requests to Wikidata instead of being blocked by it.

1 October 202620:09auslieferung-20261001-2009

Sanctions refresh without the EU list, restarts no longer suspend a build

Fixed

• Sanctions: the US lists (OFAC) are refreshed every day again. The EU list started to ask for a login on 1 October; that stopped the whole daily refresh. The EU figures now stay at their last state (28 September) until the EU serves the file again.
• A data build is no longer suspended for 24 hours because the server was restarted on purpose while it was running; only a real crash counts.

1 October 202617:49auslieferung-20261001-1749

Strait of Hormuz page compact and easy to find, trial switched off until payments are live

Improved

• Strait of Hormuz page, rewritten to be read at a glance: every section opens with one sentence that says what the numbers show, the tables are short, and comparisons use the three years before instead of every year since 2019.
• Strait of Hormuz page: a line marks the day the war began (28 February 2026, first fighting recorded by UCDP) in the ship-traffic and oil-price charts, and prices are shown before the war, at their peak and now.
• Strait of Hormuz page: "Who depends on it" now shows the five largest economies – China, the United States, Germany, Japan and India – with their share of crude oil and natural gas from the Gulf states.
• The page is now easy to find: a live link at the top of the home page, a band with the current figures below it and on "For geopolitics followers", and an entry in the Resources menu.
• DESK Impact: for a war that began this year, prices and sea routes are now measured from the day it began instead of from the start of the year.
• Life & Spirit is no longer listed in the product menu; it stays part of DESK and is linked from the journal pages.

Fixed

• The free trial is switched off again until payments are live; the buttons on the public pages say "Get started" as before.

1 October 202616:27auslieferung-20261001-1627

7-day free trial, Strait of Hormuz page, landing page fixes

Added

• A 7-day free trial: create an account without payment details and try DESK for a week. A small note above your profile shows how many days are left; the settings show when the trial ends and what happens afterwards.
• After the trial the account pauses until you subscribe or redeem a community code. Everything you created stays, and the settings (data request, sign out, delete account) remain reachable.
• A public page on the Strait of Hormuz at deskalmanac.com/strait-of-hormuz: ships and tankers a day against the same days of earlier years, what has to pass through the strait, who buys from the Gulf states, and oil and fuel prices – from IMF PortWatch, CEPII BACI and the U.S. EIA, updated with the app.
• Pricing page and FAQ now explain the free trial.

Improved

• The buttons on the public pages now say "Try 7 days free".
• deskalmanac.com/pricing now leads to the pricing page.
• Checkout: links inside running text are underlined, so they do not rely on colour alone.

Fixed

• Landing pages: the top of the page no longer disappears for a moment and fades back in while the page loads – what is on screen at the start stays on screen.
• Landing pages: the example charts now carry a name for screen readers.

1 October 202615:11auslieferung-20261001-1511

GeoNames daily, country tables without non-companies

Improved

• The place directory (5.2 million towns and villages from GeoNames) now follows the source every day: DESK applies GeoNames' daily change files instead of relying on a snapshot built by hand.
• Country company tables: universities, schools, foundations, hospitals and other non-profit bodies no longer appear as companies – the tables fill up with real companies instead.
• A company now appears only in the table of the country where it is headquartered, not in every country Wikidata lists for it.
• Sources page: GeoNames now shows "daily".

Fixed

• The rule for what counts as a company did not catch universities, because Wikidata files "university" under "enterprise". The same rule cleans the Companies map.

1 October 202614:22auslieferung-20261001-1422

Companies keep their page, faster refresh for SEC, ESEF, GLEIF

Improved

• New filings at the SEC and new annual reports from the EU and UK, Korea and Japan reach the company figures the next day instead of up to a week later.
• Subsidiaries from the GLEIF register are refreshed in a weekly rotation instead of once a month.
• Airports refresh weekly instead of monthly.
• Sources page: GLEIF and OurAirports now show "weekly"; GeoNames is shown as a fixed reference, because the place directory is built by hand.

Fixed

• Companies no longer lose their page when they slip out of a ranking: the monthly rebuild of company locations put the company list together from three rankings each time, and whoever was no longer in any of them dropped out. A company now stays until it is dissolved, merged or turns out not to be a company.

1 October 202613:32auslieferung-20261001-1332

Wikidata hourly, OpenStreetMap daily

Improved

• Company profiles from Wikidata (industry, management, owners, listing, reported figures, logo) now refresh every hour instead of once a month: DESK checks which companies were edited at Wikidata and rebuilds exactly those profiles.
• Subsidiaries, further seats and facilities of the edited companies follow once a day.
• Branches and sites from OpenStreetMap are checked every day instead of once a month.
• Banks, exchanges, organisations and military installations refresh daily; the company tables per country and the list of large companies weekly instead of monthly.
• The "New data" notes and the Sources page show the new rhythm, with a new level "hourly".

1 October 202612:30auslieferung-20261001-1230

Update rhythm on every tile, indicator and source

Added

• Every tile with data now carries a small note on how often new figures arrive – continuously, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, twice a year, once a year, every two years or every few years. It sits next to the tile title; hover over it for the explanation.
• Each indicator has its own rhythm: on the topic tabs, in the indicator window, under the history chart and on the world map, which follows the indicator you picked.
• Sources page: a new column "New data" shows the rhythm of each of the 91 sources.

Fixed

• Data updates: the grey details in brackets were too pale to read comfortably.
• Sources page, light theme: a source link under the pointer was too pale.

1 October 202611:59auslieferung-20261001-1159

Dashboard: ten more widgets, clickable data updates, plus button in the corner

Added

• Custom dashboard: ten more widgets behind the plus button – trading hours (forex sessions and stock exchanges, with what is open right now and when the next one opens), countdown to the next economic release, free note, daily checklist that starts fresh every day, currency converter, position size calculator, timer and stopwatch, TradingView mini chart, quote of the day and quick links.
• Data updates: every figure in a "published new data" entry can be clicked and opens the world map with exactly that figure.

Improved

• The data updates widget now starts in the top right corner for new dashboards.
• Own widgets show only their name in the header, without the widget type next to it.
• The plus button sits in the bottom right corner with the same distance to the right and to the bottom.

1 October 202611:11auslieferung-20261001-1111

Dashboard: plus button with widget list, world clock widget

Added

• Custom dashboard: a plus button at the bottom right opens a list of widgets to add – widgets that exist only on the dashboard, and ready-made examples from DESK (journal calendar, world map, this week's economic calendar, DESK AI, a chat channel, macro snapshot, crypto news, radar, data updates). Every widget can be added as often as you like.
• World clock widget: the time in any city, with date, the offset to UTC and to your own time, as a dial and in digits. Search the city, give the widget your own name, and change it later with the gear.

1 October 202610:10auslieferung-20261001-1010

Shortcut settings with your own keys, shortcut window, settings list, device list

Added

• Settings › Keyboard shortcuts: every shortcut in one place – the general keys, all areas and the tabs of every page. Click a key and press a new one to change it; a key that is already taken swaps places, and "Reset to defaults" restores everything. Your keys are stored with your account.

Improved

• The list of all shortcuts (?) opens as a proper window in the middle of the screen, with a close button and a link to the settings.
• Settings: the list on the left marks the right section while you scroll – including the last ones – and keeps the section you clicked.
• Signed-in devices: a device that was signed in before 1 October appears in the list as soon as it opens DESK again.

Fixed

• An error right after signing in when the browser filled in the form automatically.
• Shortcuts stopped responding after a dialog had been opened once.

1 October 202609:39auslieferung-20261001-0939

Map labels: stock exchange names on top layer, exchange click opens the right entry

Fixed

• Banking & Organisations map: clicking a stock exchange opened the wrong institution (for example Commerzbank instead of the Valencia exchange). Every exchange and central bank marker now opens its own entry.
• Names of stock exchanges now sit on the top layer like those of banks and organisations: never half hidden under neighbouring markers, and a click on the name opens the exchange.
• Names of banks, asset managers and organisations are centred over their marker again instead of starting at it.
• Names on the top layer follow the zoom levels again: the world view shows only the largest, the others appear when zooming in.

1 October 202609:21auslieferung-20261001-0921

Keyboard shortcuts, smaller app bundle, sign-in with Google or Microsoft prepared

Added

• Keyboard shortcuts: press G and a letter to jump to any area from anywhere, T and a letter for a tab of the open page (digits pick the group in the Macro Terminal), / for the search and ? for the full list. They can be switched off under Settings › Appearance.

Improved

• The app loads faster: script and styles are delivered without comments and whitespace — about 40 % less to transfer (1.0 MB instead of 1.6 MB).
• The sign-in screen appears in German for German browsers, and in the language last chosen on this device.

Fixed

• Journal date field: the remove button shows its hover colour again.

1 October 202608:35auslieferung-20261001-0835

Open sample pages: Spain, Apple, weekly report archive; request pacing made race-free

Added

• Three pages that are open without an account: a country profile for Spain, a company profile for Apple and the archive of all weekly reports — each in English and German, linked from the start page.

1 October 202608:12auslieferung-20261001-0812

Signed-in devices, sign-in notice, invoices in account, anonymous page counts

Added

• Settings › Security & data: a list of signed-in devices (computer, phone browser, app) with device, country and time, a button to sign out a single device and one to sign out everywhere else.
• An email when someone signs in from a device or country DESK has not seen for your account.
• Settings › Subscription: payments and invoices of your account are listed there once billing starts, with a link to the invoice and to the payment portal.

Improved

• The weekly-report sign-up now also covers occasional news about DESK; addresses confirmed before stay on the weekly report only.
• /register opens the German checkout for German browsers.
• Privacy policy updated for the device list, the sign-in notice, email sign-ups and anonymous page counts.

Fixed

• SEC filings mentioning a "JV" are recognised as deal-related again.

1 October 202607:24auslieferung-20261001-0724

Stale privacy page removed, old address redirects, check for leftover public files

Fixed

• An outdated copy of the privacy policy that was still reachable under an old address has been removed; the old address now leads to the current privacy policy.

1 October 202607:10auslieferung-20261001-0710

Calendar actuals survive restarts, shared request pacing, night-check fixes, phone probe

Improved

• Economic calendar: past releases keep their actual values after a restart and when a data source is briefly unavailable. Before, the calendar could show them without numbers for hours.

Fixed

• News-data requests are now paced across all background jobs, so the news source no longer answers "too many requests" at night.

30 September 202620:58auslieferung-20260930-2058

Market list coin names readable in light mode

Improved

• Crypto heatmap tab in light mode: coin names in the market list are now dark grey like the numbers instead of TradingView blue; in dark mode the header line of the list stays even.

30 September 202620:26auslieferung-20260930-2026

Error pages, instant sign-in form, white coin names in market list, phone fixes

Added

• Proper error pages (English and German) instead of raw error text: a mistyped address now shows "Page not found" with links to the start page, sign-in and support.

Improved

• The sign-in form appears immediately on slow mobile connections instead of after the whole app has loaded.
• Crypto heatmap tab: the market list shows coin names in white instead of TradingView blue, and the heatmap and market list have some space between them.
• Phone layout: the DESK Pro filters in the news week view stack neatly, and the Bitcoin header in the crypto terminal no longer cuts off market cap and volume.

30 September 202619:04auslieferung-20260930-1904

DESK Pro badges, heatmap tile colour, accessibility basics (WCAG 2.1 AA)

Added

• DESK Pro badge wherever a feature waits for DESK Pro: Altcoin Season, analyst forecasts on company pages, a new "Share price in crises, volatility and beta" tile under Safety, and the crypto note in the portfolio.

Improved

• Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA basics): stronger contrast for grey text, gold text, red and green values and the radar colours, in dark and light mode; charts and drop-downs have names for screen readers; login fields are labelled; the macro group bar is a real tab list; scrollable lists can be reached with the keyboard; links are underlined.
• The TradingView crypto heatmap bar now uses the tile colour instead of black.
• Sources page: mempool.space now lists the Bitcoin price for the crypto terminal, portfolio and weekly report.

30 September 202617:48auslieferung-20260930-1748

crypto price service removed; Bitcoin via mempool.space, altcoins via TradingView, rest DESK Pro

Improved

• Altcoin Season, prices of coins other than Bitcoin in the portfolio and coin details come with DESK Pro once a licensed source is in place.

30 September 202611:25auslieferung-20260930-1125

Resources map timeline, privacy objection box, liability clause, scrypt backup codes

Improved

• Privacy policy: the right to object (Art. 21 GDPR) as its own highlighted box; self-service data download and account deletion named in the rights section.
• Terms of use: liability clause in line with German consumer law; Paddle named as merchant of record for paid subscriptions.

Fixed

• Resources map: the timeline now changes the map – with a year selected, countries are coloured by that year's figures (also in the Custom Dashboard widget).

30 September 202611:01auslieferung-20260930-1101

Crypto header, coin picker and watchlist via TradingView

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: the coin header, the coin picker and the watchlist now come from TradingView – price, change, market cap, volume and supply, for the 100 coins TradingView carries.
• Watchlist: prices from TradingView; the buttons below it switch the header and chart to a coin. Saved watchlists are carried over automatically.

30 September 202610:36auslieferung-20260930-1036

Crypto heatmap, market list and dominance via TradingView

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: the heatmap and the market list now come from TradingView – all coins, sortable, with period and grouping chosen in the widget.
• Crypto Terminal: dominance live from TradingView; its detail page shows the full history since 2013 and switches between Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins (USDT), coins outside the top 10 and the total market value.

30 September 202609:41auslieferung-20260930-0941

Two-factor sign-in, data download, report watermark, minimum age 18, Paddle prepared

Added

• Two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy and others): Settings › Security & data, with a QR code and ten one-time backup codes. The code is also asked for in the DESK Floor app.
• Download my data: everything DESK stores about your account as one JSON file (Settings › Security & data).
• Reports carry the name and account number of the member they were made for (footer, faint watermark, PDF properties).
• Minimum age of 18, confirmed when you create an account.
• Subscription payments through Paddle are prepared (webhooks with signature check); payments are not live yet.
• The settings tour now covers Security & data.

Improved

• Terms of use, section 5: accounts are personal and may not be shared, DESK may not be read automatically, minimum age 18. Everyone confirms the updated terms once.
• Privacy policy: Paddle as merchant of record, two-factor sign-in, data download, protection against shared accounts (country only, no IP address).
• The sign-in window links to the legal notice.

30 September 202608:09auslieferung-20260930-0809

Night report fixes, nodemailer security update

Fixed

• Governance scores on country pages (government effectiveness, rule of law and the other World Bank governance indicators) now show the World Bank's September 2026 update. The country page had kept the June figures while the history charts already had the new ones.
• Computed figures such as oil production per person are recalculated as soon as their history is reloaded, so the country page and the chart always agree.

29 September 202622:10auslieferung-20260929-2210

Report page, WHOOP consent, subscription terms

Added

• Report illegal content: a new page at /report, open to everyone with or without an account. You get a confirmation by email, a person reviews every report, and you hear the decision (EU Digital Services Act).
• Before WHOOP is connected, DESK now asks for your express consent for health data. Existing connections ask once.

Improved

• Terms of use: clear subscription rules (monthly, cancel any time to the end of the paid month, prices only change with your agreement, your early-access price stays), how moderation works, and the contact point under the Digital Services Act. Everyone confirms the updated terms once.
• The box with the DESK mark in the sidebar now ends level with the page header, with the mark centred in it.

29 September 202621:34auslieferung-20260929-2134

DESK mark centred

Improved

• The dot and DESK now sit centred above The World's Markets, in the app and everywhere on the website.

29 September 202621:28auslieferung-20260929-2128

DESK mark: The World's Markets only

Improved

• The mark is now just DESK with The World's Markets beneath it: "(early access)" and the Discipline · Efficiency · Success · Knowledge line are gone, in the app and on the website.
• The browser tab reads "DESK — The World's Markets" in the app and on the home page.

Fixed

• The script line could show in a fallback font after the update; the app now loads the typeface itself.

29 September 202621:12auslieferung-20260929-2112

DESK mark with The World's Markets

Improved

• The DESK mark now carries "The World's Markets" beneath the name, in the same script as DESK Floor: in the sidebar, in the website header and footer, and in the press kit logos.

29 September 202617:39auslieferung-20260929-1739

DESK Floor 0.2.18 daily targets; DESK Pro groundwork (credits, price alerts, history, IBKR sync) switched off

Added

• DESK Floor 0.2.18: Nutrition shows the daily target of the day (calories and macros) and opens a target page — formula, WHOOP, measured or your own targets in grams or percent, per weekday if you like. The same setting as on the website.
• Groundwork for DESK Pro, switched off until live market data: 3,000 DESK AI credits for Pro, price alerts with push, price history as far back as the data goes, and an Interactive Brokers sync (Flex Web Service) that produces booking proposals like the statement import.

Fixed

• DESK Floor: the green phone for "online on mobile" was cut off at the bottom in the chat header.

29 September 202617:02auslieferung-20260929-1702

Home page: founder story mentions how deep DESK goes

Improved

• Home page, "Why DESK exists": a paragraph on how deep DESK goes — conditions across 900+ indicators, supply chains, filings, your own score weights and your own maps.

29 September 202616:47auslieferung-20260929-1647

Macro Terminal: company flags and gold hover, Clear all resets the country, Banking & Organisations, title-case overlays, X on country charts, dashboard year fix

Improved

• Companies overview: "Clear all" also resets the country filter, and appears as soon as a country is picked.
• Hovering a company name now outlines its flag in gold, as with country names — everywhere a company name carries a flag.
• Country pages: the flag of the headquarters country stands left of every company name in the Companies chapter (top companies of a sector, largest companies, A–Z list).
• The world map "Banks & organisations" is now called "Banking & Organisations".
• World map overlays are written in title case (Capitals & Cities, Shipping & Rail Corridors).
• Line charts on country pages close with the same X as every other window.

Fixed

• Some name labels on the Banking & Organisations map were black; they are white again.
• Macro Terminal dashboard: the year behind a value slipped onto a second line and out of the gold hover field.

29 September 202615:51auslieferung-20260929-1551

Own calorie and macro goals (grams or percent, per weekday); square share image for WhatsApp

Added

• Life & Spirit: your own calorie and macro goals as a fourth basis next to formula, WHOOP and measured — macros in grams or in percent of the calories, and a different set per weekday if you want one. The weekly nutrition report measures every day against its own goal.
• WhatsApp gets its own square share image for every page, so the preview is no longer cut in half.

Improved

• DESK vs MyFitnessPal and the Life & Spirit page name the new goals.

29 September 202615:29auslieferung-20260929-1529

Website: honest daily-targets row in the MyFitnessPal comparison, share images without cut-offs

Improved

• The founder story is signed with the first name only.

Fixed

• DESK vs MyFitnessPal: the daily-targets row now says what DESK really has (EFSA reference values, no goals of your own) and that MyFitnessPal sets calorie and macro goals in the free version too.
• Share images: every screenshot now sits fully inside the picture instead of running off the edge; better screenshots for pages whose first image was too wide.

29 September 202615:08auslieferung-20260929-1508

Website: German version, weekly report by email, founder story, comparison pages, press kit, share images and structured data

Added

• The website in German: every page under /de and /start/de/, with an EN/DE switch in the header and a one-time hint for German browsers.
• The DESK weekly report by email for everyone, near the top of the home page: double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe in every email, and last week's report as a public PDF (/report/latest).
• "Why DESK exists": the founder's story on the home page — including no advertising, no sponsors and no affiliate links.
• Comparison pages: DESK vs MyFitnessPal and DESK vs Tradezella, dated, with sources and an honest section on where the other product is stronger.
• A press kit with logos, screenshots, the facts and a short description.
• A share image of its own for every page, in both languages, and structured data for search engines (organisation, product with price, questions and answers).

Improved

• The home page shows six parts of DESK instead of the old "four terminals".
• The privacy policy names the newsletter and Brevo as the email processor.

Fixed

• Two answers in the FAQ showed a code instead of the euro sign.

29 September 202614:07auslieferung-20260929-1407

Legal pages: full postal address of the provider

Fixed

• Legal notice, privacy policy, terms of use and the notice on the right of withdrawal now contain the full postal address of the provider (EN and DE).

29 September 202613:58auslieferung-20260929-1358

Website: centred wide stories, frameless phone zoom, DESK AI draws maps

Improved

• Website: wide screens on the product pages have their text centred above the image.
• Website: phone screens also open without a square frame when enlarged.
• Website: DESK AI and Your own map mention that DESK AI draws map drafts for you.

29 September 202613:47auslieferung-20260929-1347

Website: compact DESK AI screen, rounded phone screens on Community

Improved

• Website: the DESK AI page shows a compact screen beside the text instead of a large image below it.
• Website: the phone screens on the Community page keep their rounded corners, without a square frame.

29 September 202613:40auslieferung-20260929-1340

Website: tab bar for Macro Terminal, company pages and own map

Improved

• Website: the Macro Terminal, company pages and your own map now share a tab bar at the top of each of the three pages, so all three parts are easy to find.

29 September 202613:22auslieferung-20260929-1322

Brent in DESK Radar at the latest daily price like Impact and reports; DESK AI one policy rate and daily US 10y; shorter Product menu

Improved

• Website: the Product menu is shorter. Company pages and your own maps are now part of the Macro Terminal.
• The methodology page describes the new Brent price rule.

Fixed

• DESK Radar now shows Brent crude at its latest daily price (EIA), like DESK Impact and the weekly report. Before, the Radar showed the World Bank's monthly average, which can be weeks older, so the same oil price appeared with two different values.
• DESK AI now names one policy rate per country and the US 10-year yield as the latest daily Treasury value, the same figure as in the weekly report.

29 September 202612:58auslieferung-20260929-1258

Website: DESK AI and Community pages, Radar/Impact/reports on News, staying-informed solution, early-access price €49 instead of €99

Added

• Website: new pages for DESK AI and the Community (with DESK Floor, the Android app), and a new solution page "For staying informed".
• Website: the News page now also shows DESK Radar, DESK Impact and the weekly report, with screens from DESK.
• Website: Methodology, Support and About DESK in the Resources menu.

Improved

• Pricing: €49 a month is shown as the early-access price, next to the regular price of €99 (VAT included). Your price stays at €49 for as long as your subscription runs.
• The plan comparison and the FAQ now list DESK AI, Radar, Impact, the weekly report, the community and the Android app.

29 September 202611:27auslieferung-20260929-1127

Security check of the DESK Floor app (app key only to deskalmanac.com, safe links and images, typing respects channel access and blocks); CI crypto views from stored prices

Fixed

• Security check of the DESK Floor app: the app key is now only ever sent to deskalmanac.com. A crafted link could previously make the app send it to a foreign server along with a profile picture.
• The app only loads pictures from DESK or from the phone itself, and only opens web links (http/https) from messages.
• Signing out also clears cached chat pictures on the phone; Android no longer backs up app data.
• "Typing…" in closed channels is only visible to members who can read the channel, and blocked users no longer show up as typing.

29 September 202607:12auslieferung-20260929-0712

Server memory limit 2 GB, night walkthrough heap guard

Fixed

• The server ran out of memory twice during the night checks. It now starts with a 2 GB memory limit on every start path (manual restart, dead-man switch, boot) instead of the phone default of about 1.1 GB, and warns if it ever starts with the small limit.
• The night UI walkthrough only runs when the server itself has enough memory free, not just the phone.

28 September 202622:23auslieferung-20260928-2223

ETF flows: retry after restart, clearer error

Fixed

• Crypto ETF flows: a single failed fetch right after a restart is retried once, and error reports now name the real cause instead of wrongly suggesting that curl is missing.
• UI check: an almost empty view now reports the text it actually shows.

28 September 202622:03auslieferung-20260928-2203

DESK AI and analyst on Claude Sonnet 5.5

Improved

• DESK AI, the portfolio analyst, portfolio planning, the radar explanation and the reports now run on Claude Sonnet 5.5 (same price as before).

28 September 202621:27auslieferung-20260928-2127

Channel info (members, media, links), per-channel notifications, quiet hours, app walkthrough check

Added

• DESK Floor app: tap a channel's name for its info page, as in Discord – members with access (online and offline), all images posted (Media) and all links posted (Links), from the whole history.
• DESK Floor app: per-channel notifications behind the bell on that page – mute for 1 hour, 8 hours, 24 hours or until you turn it back on, and choose default, all messages, only @mentions or nothing. Muted channels show a crossed-out bell in the list.
• DESK Floor app: quiet hours in Settings – no push messages between two times you choose (default 23:00–06:00), with an on/off switch. Important Alerts still come through.

Improved

• DESK Floor app: members and conversations for forwarding appear instantly, also right after a server restart.

28 September 202620:55auslieferung-20260928-2055

Full-history search on the website, steady forward sheet, back arrow in search

Improved

• Community search on the website now searches a channel's whole history, not just the last 200 loaded messages – and ignores accents, as in the app.
• DESK Floor app: the forward sheet keeps the same size when switching between Community and Direct message.
• DESK Floor app: while search or pinned messages are open, the back arrow top left returns to the chat instead of leaving it.

28 September 202620:28auslieferung-20260928-2028

App: search, pins, friends, profile editing, moderation; forward with two buttons

Added

• DESK Floor app: search. A magnifier next to "Community" searches members and messages across every channel you can see and your direct messages; a magnifier in each chat searches that chat's whole history. A result jumps straight to the message and highlights it.
• DESK Floor app: pinned messages. A pin in each chat shows its pinned messages; the DESK role can pin and unpin from the message menu.
• DESK Floor app: friends. The Messages tab now has "Chats" and "Friends" – accept or decline requests, see your friends, withdraw sent requests; profiles have an "Add friend" button.
• DESK Floor app: edit your own profile (picture, display name, bio) from Settings.
• DESK Floor app: long-press a conversation to mark it as read or close it; long-press a channel to mark it as read.

Improved

• Forwarding in the app now has two buttons, Community and Direct message, instead of one long list.
• The DESK role can now delete other members' messages in channels (app and website), after a confirmation in the app.

28 September 202620:03auslieferung-20260928-2003

Forwarding in the app, sharp channel icons on the website

Added

• DESK Floor app: forward messages to channels and direct messages, as on the website (text, images, files and voice messages).

Improved

• Community on the website: the channel icons are now sharp vector graphics with the same shapes as in the app, instead of a blurry icon font.

Fixed

• Forwarding a voice message now only offers direct messages (voice messages are not allowed in channels) and keeps its waveform; before, forwarding to a channel failed silently.
• App: the "no direct messages yet" hint no longer points to the website; conversations start from a member's profile in the app.

28 September 202619:46auslieferung-20260928-1946

App typing indicator, companies overview flags and country tile, consistent symbols, banks & organisations map, company HQ layer

Added

• DESK Floor app: "is typing …" now shows in channels and direct messages, in real time.
• Companies overview: the chosen country appears as a small tile with × to remove it, as on the countries page.

Improved

• Companies overview: country flags in the country list and in front of every company name.
• Macro Terminal: raw materials in all indicator menus now carry the same symbols as in the Trade Chain (gold, oil, wheat, wood …); the same terms use the same emoji everywhere (Overview, Economy, Companies, Money, Financial system, Resources, Real estate).
• The "Companies, banks & organisations" world map is now "Banks & organisations"; companies have their own map on the Companies tab.
• As a layer over other maps (world and country maps), companies now appear as plain red headquarter dots from the full company dataset – the same view as on the Companies tab, without labels or hover.

28 September 202619:22auslieferung-20260928-1922

Real-time community, DESK channel group, channel icons on the website

Added

• Community messages now arrive in real time, on the website and in the DESK Floor app: new messages, reactions, edits (and "is typing" on the website) appear instantly instead of after the next check.
• New collapsible "DESK" section above the text channels with Announcements and Important Alerts. Everyone can read them; only DESK (or the automatic alerts) can post.
• The channel icons from the app now also appear in front of the channels on the website.

Improved

• Nutrition weekly report: the nutrient table now has column headings ("Avg per day", "Reference per day", "Share"), so it is clear that both values are daily figures.
• App: the channel list is headed "Text Channels", as on the website.

28 September 202618:50auslieferung-20260928-1850

Important Alerts channel, 15-minute voice limit

Added

• Community: new read-only channel "Important Alerts" under Announcements. When a major event turns red in DESK Radar, it is posted there automatically and sent to the app as a loud notification. Major events are a new war involving a G20 or nuclear power, a WHO pandemic or global health emergency, the bankruptcy of one of the 100 largest companies, or a major strait being closed.

Improved

• Voice messages stop and send automatically after 15 minutes, in the app and on the website.

28 September 202618:27auslieferung-20260928-1827

App notification choice, working report downloads

Added

• DESK Floor: choose which notifications you get. "Only for me" covers direct messages, mentions and replies. "All messages" adds every new channel message, at most one notification per channel every 30 seconds.

Fixed

• DESK Floor: downloaded nutrition reports now open. The phone's browser saves them to the Downloads folder through a short-lived one-time link.

28 September 202617:24auslieferung-20260928-1724

Company figures run no longer exhausts server memory

Fixed

• Server: the weekly company-figures run no longer keeps every SEC company file in memory until it ends. One file alone takes about 13 MB, and together they ran the server out of memory.

28 September 202617:18auslieferung-20260928-1718

Support confirms instantly

Fixed

• Support: sending a request no longer waits for the email to go out, so the confirmation appears right away.

28 September 202617:03auslieferung-20260928-1703

Support requests from the app linked to the account

Improved

• Support requests sent from the DESK Floor app are now linked to your account, just like requests from the signed-in website.

28 September 202616:40auslieferung-20260928-1640

Nutrition reports in the app, smooth voice playback, instant profiles

Added

• DESK Floor: the weekly nutrition reports can now be downloaded in the app too. The server builds them from the same code as the website, so the PDF is the same.

Improved

• Voice messages: the progress runs smoothly instead of in steps, and the played part of the waveform fills in gold.
• Profiles open at once and fill in their details a moment later.
• The phone symbol in the member list next to the chat is a size smaller.

28 September 202616:10auslieferung-20260928-1610

Voice messages on the web, waveforms, reporting, terms update

Added

• Direct messages: record voice messages on the website too. Click the microphone, pause and continue, discard or send. The volume is shown live while recording.
• Voice messages now carry a waveform (from the app and from the website) that fills up as the message plays.
• Community: messages and members can be reported from the DESK Floor app. Every report is reviewed; the reported person does not learn who reported them.

Improved

• The phone symbol for members who are online only from the app now looks like the Discord one (green phone with screen and home button).
• Terms of Use: they now name the DESK Floor app and describe reporting and blocking.
• Privacy policy: covers voice messages and reports.

28 September 202615:42auslieferung-20260928-1542

Voice player on the site, phone presence icon, app privacy section

Improved

• Community: voice messages in direct messages now have their own player in the site's style (play/pause, seek bar, playback speed 1×/1.5×/2×) instead of the browser's white player.
• Community: the green phone shown for members who are online only from the DESK Floor app now looks like a proper phone.
• Privacy policy: new section on the DESK Floor Android app (sign-in storage, optional push notifications via Firebase without message content, camera, microphone, online status).

28 September 202614:32auslieferung-20260928-1432

Instant community send, phone presence icon

Added

• Community: members who are online only from the DESK Floor phone app now show a small green phone instead of the green dot (member list, friends, direct messages, profile).

Improved

• Community: your own message appears instantly when you send it and is confirmed by the server a moment later, with no more waiting several seconds.

28 September 202613:42auslieferung-20260928-1342

DESK Floor notifications (server side)

Added

• Notifications for DESK Floor: a new direct message, a mention or a reply to your message reaches the phone even when the app is closed. The notification only says that there is something new – text and sender stay on DESK and are never sent through Google.
• The app can switch notifications off itself; the device then no longer receives any.

28 September 202613:09auslieferung-20260928-1309

Groundwork for the DESK Floor Android app

Added

• Groundwork for DESK Floor, the Android companion app: signing in with your DESK account, channels, direct messages and nutrition from the phone app.
• Voice messages from the app play directly in direct messages on the website.

28 September 202612:31auslieferung-20260928-1231

No twitch on first unfold, widgets stay loaded, Crypto Terminal opens at once

Improved

• Opening a list right after loading the Macro Terminal no longer twitches: background data that doesn't change the page no longer rebuilds it, the resource year series arrive in one batch, and nothing is rebuilt while a list is folding open or shut.
• Dashboard widgets stay loaded when you switch to another page and back.

28 September 202612:11auslieferung-20260928-1211

World map back to full size, smoother folding start, dominance chart, Altcoin Season no longer hangs

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: the dominance history shows BTC, ETH and the rest as three charts with their own scale, so the movement is visible; one crosshair runs through all three.
• Every chart in the Crypto Terminal and the Portfolio has its scale on the right, as everywhere else in DESK.
• Opening a long list (e.g. Resource Imports → China) starts at once: only the rows on screen fall in, and the world totals behind the trend tables are no longer recalculated on every click.
• The price tape is now explained at the start of the Dashboard's Custom tour instead of in the Crypto Terminal tour.

Fixed

• The World Map is back to its original size.

28 September 202611:41auslieferung-20260928-1141

Deeper tours on every page, crypto fixes, dictionary letters by level, smoother folding

Added

• Crypto Terminal: clicking a coin in the watchlist switches the header and the TradingView chart to that coin.
• Tours for the Portfolio (net worth with watchlist, investments with dividends) and one shared tour for Broker & Banks, Platforms and Prop Firms, including the Links menu and the search.
• Tours now explain each page in depth, with examples and things to try: every Crypto Terminal tab (the tape and its settings, dominance, altcoin season and Fear & Greed opened live, derivatives, mempool, open interest, CVD, liquidations, Rainbow, Pi Cycle, Puell, heatmap and top 100), Market Geometry, the Dictionary (levels, search inside a folder, letters, an entry), DESK Journal (accounts as folders, import and paste, backtests, reports, gallery filters, instruments and commission, the dashboard), Life, Spirit, Community, Settings (including the DESK Score weights and account deletion) and Profile.
• The Dashboard tour explains the price tape at the top and which entries come with DESK Pro.

Improved

• World Map: the whole tile is narrower and centred, and the map fills it again – no more cut-off picture inside a wide tile.
• Folding a list shut: the opened block now shrinks in step with the rope ladder instead of leaving empty tables that vanish at the end – everywhere lists fold.
• The Back buttons in the Fear & Greed, Dominance, Altcoin Season and Mempool views are small and sit top left.
• ETF net flows: the crosshair sits on the middle of each bar.
• The coin chart opened from the heatmap fills its window, with no grey strip at the bottom.
• Dictionary: the level and letter filters stay in place while the list reloads.
• Tours: no wait before steps whose target often isn't there (e.g. after the DESK AI question); the frame finds its target again after the page reloads.

Fixed

• Dictionary: the letters follow the chosen level – a letter is only active if that level has terms starting with it.
• Crypto tours no longer mention a search step that doesn't exist or claim that ETF flows need DESK Pro.
• Life tour: only WHOOP is supported, and the tour says so; it no longer jumps to Spirit.

28 September 202610:49auslieferung-20260928-1049

Country names open the matching chapter everywhere, smoother windows and lists, Trade Chain tour

Added

• A country name anywhere in the Macro Terminal now opens its country page at the matching chapter and tile: from the topic tabs (Economics, Money, Military …), the Trade Chain, capitals and cities, companies and organisations, and conflicts. From the rail and military maps the country map opens with that layer switched on.
• Company, bank and organisation names on the map sit on top with a thin line to their point, and a click on a name opens the entry. The name at the gold ring (for example a military base) opens its sheet directly.
• Trade Chain tour: a walk through Panels (the situation, maps A to D, tables, industries, combined map), Tree (steps 1 to 4, dependency map) and Trends, using gold as the example.

Improved

• Windows fade and slide in and out instead of popping.
• Clicking a number loads only that one history (a few kilobytes) and starts loading as soon as you point at it.
• Country pages appear at once on repeat visits; newer figures are calculated in the background.
• Every list folds open and closed with the rope-ladder animation in one go; "Show all" only lets the new rows fall in.
• The industry map, the tree matrix and the dependency map are smaller so each tile fits on screen; Trends opens with 40 resources (about 0.4 s instead of 2.8 s).
• A highlighted pipeline glows for about six seconds, stronger, while other lines step back; railways on the country map have more contrast.
• Tours: topics let you try a number's history and the full ranking; the company part is shorter; Compare explains how to read the chart; skipping a click step also skips the steps that depend on it.

Fixed

• Sea names on My Map: the overlay tick now matches what the map shows.
• Removing an industry (or choosing All industries) no longer leaves the industry map on the old industry.
• The cursor no longer flickers between hand and crosshair at bends of a pipeline.

28 September 202610:07auslieferung-20260928-1007

Tours glide and wait, map tables open the matching chapter, faster trade charts and company overview

Added

• Dashboard: the Favorites tab has its own tour (notes, removing a favorite, sorting by category); every account starts with TradingView as a favorite.
• World map: clicking a country in a table of the map opens its country page at the matching chapter and tile, which pulses gold (IMF credits, alliances, resources, production, trade and refugee flows, conflicts and more).
• World map: a country picked in the search on the Country pages map pulses gold on the map instead of opening its page.
• Radar: the evidence under a report now starts with the articles behind the counted events.

Improved

• Tours glide to the next step instead of jumping, wait for windows and results (Explain waits for the explanation), frame open dropdowns, and no longer pause in windows the tour itself opens.
• Macro tours: overlays are opened and explained, the country/company switch can be tried, the currency map is explained and the policy-rate step no longer repeats.
• Every list that folds open now folds closed with the same rope-ladder animation.
• Back from a country or company page returns to the spot you left.
• The world map is a little smaller so its legend fits on screen; only the number lights up when hovering a clickable value.
• Macro Highlights shows fourteen entries; the long IMF note sits below the legend.
• The Companies view of the Overview opens in about a second instead of nine.
• Closing an enlarged tile no longer shows its chart in a half-scaled state.
• Supply & infrastructure: only events with cross-border effect (a traded commodity with dependent importers, or a trade route) are highlighted.
• "The countries shown, combined" is now "The world combined".

Fixed

• The history of a single commodity between two countries (for example gold from Switzerland to China) loads in milliseconds instead of timing out.
• Portfolio price history keeps its last data across a restart instead of failing.
• The monthly calendar tile on News no longer has an enlarge button.

28 September 202608:21auslieferung-20260928-0821

Nightly checks no longer run the server out of memory

Fixed

• The nightly checks no longer run the server out of memory. Loaded data files now share a fixed budget and are released after twenty minutes without use; per-country World Bank histories, commodity tables and trade-partner years are capped; the parameter walk works through each night's combinations route by route instead of reloading the large trade file thousands of times.
• If the nightly checks are interrupted, they get one more attempt during the night and then report instead of silently stopping.

27 September 202620:50auslieferung-20260927-2050

Market Geometry: candlestick and chart pattern sheets in the diagrams, Basics PDF in the Library

Added

• Market Geometry: three reference sheets in the diagrams — candlestick patterns and two sheets of chart patterns with neckline and target; the Library has the "Basics" PDF right after Sequences.

27 September 202620:25auslieferung-20260927-2025

City history build reads the UN file line by line (out-of-memory fix); build watch pauses a build that crashes the server

Fixed

• The server no longer runs out of memory when it builds the city population histories: the United Nations file is read line by line (peak 31 MB instead of over 1 GB). On the phone the build had ended the server after each start.

27 September 202620:00auslieferung-20260927-2000

Fear & Greed history kept on disk; short crypto price service pauses are waited out

Fixed

• Crypto Terminal: the Fear & Greed history is there right after a server restart (it is kept on disk and refreshed in the background) and gets a second, longer attempt instead of an error.

27 September 202619:11auslieferung-20260927-1911

Automatic check system (night watch, build watch, process and interface walks, calibrated source checks); city population histories; companies overview country menu; draggable combined time line; data fixes

Added

• Capitals & cities map: every population figure in "The largest cities", in the list per country, in a city's box and in the combined table opens its history since 1975 (United Nations World Urbanization Prospects 2025). Where the UN list a city, its agglomeration is now their 2025 estimate.
• Companies overview: a country menu; table and company list then show only the companies headquartered there.

Improved

• Companies overview: the search field says "Select companies…"; "only major countries & companies" keeps the major economies and, of their companies, the 500 largest – in the table and in the company list; sorting by a column no longer jumps back to the left edge of the table.
• World map with combined data types: the time line can be dragged again; the map follows while dragging.
• Data type menu of the world map: the foldable groups stand out like the categories of the Trade Chain resource search.
• Resource world map: the resource menu shows the same symbols as the Trade Chain.

Fixed

• Policy rates: countries that joined the euro later (Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia) no longer show the ECB rate for the years before they joined.
• Portfolio: the annual money-weighted return (IRR) is shown again above 1,000 % a year (short holdings with large gains left the tile empty).
• Economic calendar: a JOLTS release at the end of a month now shows its own month (30 June = May, not April).
• Everyday prices: bread and beef for the US no longer disappear when the BLS daily limit is used up; they now come from the BLS data file.
• Company figures: an eleven-month comparison period no longer stands in for a whole fiscal year (Leidos 2014: 5.063 instead of 4.69 billion $).
• Company profiles: where Wikidata lists several SEC numbers, the one of the listed filer counts (USA Today Co., Apollo, Prudential plc keep their own figures).
• Domestic credit in US dollars: converted from unrounded values (up to one unit off in the sixth digit before).

27 September 202616:07auslieferung-20260927-1607

Welcome email with its own limit and a retry on the next visit

Fixed

• The welcome email no longer gets lost after several sign-up attempts with the same address: it has its own limit, and if it cannot go out, it is sent the next time the account opens DESK.

27 September 202616:00auslieferung-20260927-1600

Username chosen at account creation

Added

• Checkout: the username is chosen when the account is created, together with email and password; the welcome email and DESK greet you with it.

27 September 202615:58auslieferung-20260927-1558

Unread only since account creation; subscription with renewal price for code accounts in welcome email and settings

Added

• Welcome email and settings: the price at which the subscription renews, with the discount of the community code (for example "Renews at: €0.00 / month, Early Access, 100 % discount").
• Accounts created with a community code get their monthly subscription right away (start, renewal date one month later, price and discount); a free subscription renews by itself.

Fixed

• Community: for a new account, messages written before it existed are shown but no longer count as unread.

27 September 202615:43auslieferung-20260927-1543

Checkout: discounted price in the plan, normal cursor in the fields

Improved

• Checkout: with a community code, the price at the top of the plan shows the old price struck through and the new price next to it.

Fixed

• Checkout: the email, password and code fields no longer show the "not allowed" cursor; only the billing fields that are still closed do.

27 September 202615:37auslieferung-20260927-1537

Start pages load the new script version (version stamps renewed, checked on every delivery)

Fixed

• Start pages: they now load the new version of their script and styles. The pages still pointed to the old version stamp, so browsers and the network cache kept serving the previous start page (no greeting, no checkout form).

27 September 202615:26auslieferung-20260927-1526

Account only after plan or full-discount community code, checkout form on the page, greeting on start pages, clickable plan card, refugee time line for all migration

Added

• Checkout: email, password and the three consents are entered on the checkout page itself; the account is created only in the last step, with the plan. A community code field sits under the plan and shows the role and its discount; "Due today" follows it.
• Community codes can carry a discount. During early access, an account opens with a code that covers the full price; payments follow later.

Improved

• Start pages: when you are signed in, the header greets you by the name from your profile ("Hi, …") and leads into DESK; the checkout says the same instead of "You are signed in".
• Pricing: the plan card itself is the choice; one click leads to the checkout.
• "Create account" in the login screen leads to the checkout.

Fixed

• An account could be created without a plan, directly from the login screen or the first checkout step.
• Refugee flows: with a country chosen and the view "All migration", the time line now moves the map and the tables (the stock years of the UN).

27 September 202615:03auslieferung-20260927-1503

Companies overview: search list, year menu, only major companies; combined world map with time line; foldable data type menu; resource emojis; goods routes in the logic scanner

Added

• Companies overview: a year menu (figures of the chosen year as reported, ratios of that year) and "only major companies" (the 500 largest by revenue in the year shown, the same cut as the Fortune Global 500).
• Companies overview: the company search now has the same width as the country search and opens a scrolling list of all companies; a click adds the company above the table and limits the table to it.
• World map: combined indicators now have the time line as well; the ranks are formed per year from the values of that year.

Improved

• World map: the themes in the data type menu (Commodities, Minerals, Agriculture & livestock …) fold open and closed; the theme of the chosen indicator stands open.
• Resources map: every resource in the resource menu carries its symbol.
• Attributes map: the figures in the country boxes use the table font size.
• Companies overview: no more small triangle next to the sorted column header.
• World map: the line "click countries to compare them below" is gone, and with combined indicators the year menu below the map gives way to the time line.

27 September 202614:26auslieferung-20260927-1426

Logic scanner over every parameter value (7 nights), inventory of places with x of y pairs (30/30), cross-checks K25-K30, world charts use the source's own world row, minute pauses no longer reported

Improved

• Call guard: a "too many requests" pause no longer than the provider's shortest published window (one minute where none is published) resolves itself and is only counted in the daily report instead of sending a message each time.

Fixed

• World page: for 13 indicators whose source brings its own world row (ICP price levels, where the world is 100 by definition, UN median age, Maddison GDP per head, hospital beds, patents per head, net food imports), the chart opened by a click now shows the same world figure as the tile and the country series. Before, it showed the average of the countries (GDP per head 2022: 19,797 instead of 16,677).

27 September 202613:24auslieferung-20260927-1324

Call guard for every data source (limits, brake, 429 pause), logic scanner over all routes, cross-check K19-K24, all firms in 14 nights, SEC duplicates removed

Added

• Logic scanner: every night it walks every data route of the site (around 100) and applies general rules to each answer, including routes no single check was written for. It flags server errors, texts such as "NaN" or "undefined", time series out of order or with a repeated date, a row identifier twice, years beyond any forecast, broken links, and an amount repeated to the dollar in two consecutive years.
• Cross-check: six new comparisons (K19 to K24, about 1,700 values). Radar company figures against the company page, and Radar policy-rate, business-cycle and conflict reports against the country page and the conflict data. Also Radar commodity prices against the Trade Chain, and the foreign-born population against the overview.

Improved

• Company checks cover every company every 14 nights instead of about every four months.
• The morning report lists the most used data sources of the previous day, with any 429 answers and braked calls.

Fixed

• Company figures: amounts repeated to the dollar in two consecutive years (a duplication in the SEC frames, for example equity at Huntington Bancshares for 2011 and 2012) are gone. The earlier year is dropped, in the shared source of score, Radar and company page.
• Company page: liabilities plus equity above total assets no longer appear (Zendesk 2015/16).
• SEC 8-K filings from before August 2004 (items 1 to 12) now carry their names instead of a bare number.

27 September 202612:45auslieferung-20260927-1245

Tile checker for every tile (178/178), Telegram findings, wall-clock night checks; companies overview; 9 Macro fixes; data fixes found by the checker

Added

• Macro Terminal, Overview: a Countries / Companies switch. The companies overview lists every company once, sortable by DESK score, revenue, growth, net and operating margin, equity ratio, profit, total assets, employees, market value and founding year, with search and a sector filter. Each figure opens its history.
• Tile checker: every tile of the site now has its own nightly check (178 of 178). This covers the Crypto Terminal, every section of the DESK Radar dossiers, the company page, the maps and tables of the Macro Terminal, and Portfolio and Psychology. Tiles with a user's own data are checked on test data only, never on the user's data.

Improved

• Production: alcohol is part of the Drugs category instead of a category of its own.
• Line-chart legends: the small tick box is gone; the entry itself switches the line on and off, the same everywhere in the terminal.
• Tables in the Topics tabs: columns whose header is on the left are now left-aligned too, for example Armed conflicts, Country, From and To (19 columns in seven tabs).
• Every back button now reads only "← Back".
• Refugee, money and trade flows: in the partner pop-up each figure opens that flow over the years, gold on hover.
• Country search lists no longer show the country code at the end of each row.
• Every figure menu in the Macro Terminal shows an emoji before each name.
• Search directory: the lists no longer take the page with them at the top and no longer shift while scrolling up.
• Findings from the tile checker are sent via Telegram, also when the check is run by hand. The morning report says whether the night checks ran.
• The night checks follow the wall clock and catch up a missed run. Previously a phone in deep sleep could skip them.

Fixed

• Company figures: 13 companies with a fiscal year ending before June (Alstom, Norsk Hydro, Atlas Copco, Ferrovial, Fujifilm, Jerónimo Martins and others) had their Wikidata series shifted by one year, so two years showed the same revenue. Amounts are now compared to the dollar.
• Crypto: Pi Cycle, Puell and Rainbow in the ALL view showed averages at the date of the last day, so the last point was not today's value. Fear & Greed had the same problem. Every point is now a real daily value.
• Crypto: the market-cap rank now follows market value (rank 47 no longer stands above rank 46).
• Company page: ISINs and LEIs with a wrong check digit are no longer shown, and a company no longer appears as its own owner.
• Company page: impossible years (such as "17" and "219") and negative totals without a filing are gone. Equity above total assets is dropped for that year (T-Mobile US 2010/11, Johnson Controls 2013). A negative liabilities line in an SEC filing is replaced by total assets minus equity (CNOOC).
• Company map: the headquarters country is now the same as on the company page (Olam, Viterra, Valterra, ECOM, Mineral Resources), and coordinates outside the globe are no longer drawn (Redcare Pharmacy).
• SEC 8-K filings: items such as 1.05 (cybersecurity incident) and 4.02 (past financial statements not reliable) now have their names instead of the bare number. 4.02 counts as a risk filing.
• Radar: French Southern Territories, Norfolk Island and 25 other territories carry their names instead of a code.
• Capitals map: no dot without a name where the World Bank lists no capital. Cities: the urban area is never smaller than the city itself.
• Retirement goal: Venezuela no longer shows a consumption of 0.
• Food: products whose values per 100 g add up to more than 100 g after the EU label tolerances (pack values in the per-100-g fields) are no longer used, and neither is a part larger than its whole (sugars above carbohydrates).

27 September 202610:48auslieferung-20260927-1048

Nightly tile checker; calendar actuals/previous complete; announcements DESK-only and red

Improved

• Community: only the DESK role can post in Announcements, and every new announcement counts as a red notification.
• Economic calendar: Crude Oil Inventories is no longer listed as a DESK Pro extra; it is a free Medium event.
• Economic calendar: where the source never published a figure (US government shutdown, October 2025), the calendar shows "—" with an explanation instead of an empty space.

Fixed

• Economic calendar: about 200 past events had no Actual, including every event from January to July 2025, all months of Average Hourly Earnings and Core PPI, and most Goods Trade Balance and Wholesale Inventories reports. All of them now show their figures.
• Economic calendar: "Previous" was missing for Crude Oil Inventories, Natural Gas Storage, Core PPI, Average Hourly Earnings and the wholesale and trade reports.
• Economic calendar: after a holiday (for example Labor Day), the oil inventories published a day late now get their figure.
• Economic calendar: "Gross Domestic Product for Puerto Rico" no longer appears as the US event "GDP".

27 September 202609:43auslieferung-20260927-0943

Macro Terminal: search directory fixes and completeness, production/society tables, conflict histories, flow partners, back from flow maps, flag outlines

Added

• Production tab: three tables across all goods: the largest producers (sum of world shares per category and in total), world number one (how many goods a country leads) and how concentrated each good is (share of the top three, largest producer, reporting countries).
• Society tab: a ranked table of the share of foreigners (international migrants as a share of the population, UN DESA via the World Bank, 2024), plus the new indicator "Migrants (share of population)".
• Refugee flow tables: the number of partners is clickable and opens the ranked partners.
• Dashboard search directory: all companies of the companies map (opening their company page), a new Industries block (sector › industry, opening the companies map) and all production goods under Resources (opening the production map).

Improved

• Military tab: the figures in "Deaths by country" and "Ongoing conflicts" turn gold on hover and open their history.
• Everywhere in the Macro Terminal, the flag is outlined in gold together with a clickable country name.
• Compare tab: the year menu now sits to the right of the data type.
• Overview tab: the country searches no longer show country codes.
• The Channel Islands show their flag.

Fixed

• Dashboard search directory: scrolling upwards no longer jumps. The lists also keep their scroll position when more data arrives.
• A jump from a table to a flow map (for example Society → refugee map) now has a Back button leading to where you came from.

27 September 202608:47auslieferung-20260927-0847

Settings: Support section

Added

• Settings: a Support section right after Account and Subscription, with the support form and the Q&A, Feature Requests and Bug Reports channels.

27 September 202608:39auslieferung-20260927-0839

Support page /support; Announcements (DESK only) and Bug Reports channels

Added

• Support page at deskalmanac.com/support, reachable without logging in: email, topic, subject and message go straight to the DESK team, who reply by email. Signed-in users find their address already filled in. It is linked on the Sources page and in the Community's Support channel.
• Community: an Announcements channel above General, where only DESK posts and everyone can read and react, and a Bug Reports channel under Feature Requests.

27 September 202608:28auslieferung-20260927-0828

Community: Macro, Crypto, News, Q&A, Feature Requests channels; channel groups fold without reload

Added

• Community: new text channels Macro, Crypto, News, Q&A (questions about DESK) and Feature Requests. Order: General, Macro, Crypto, News, Trades, Q&A, Feature Requests, Support.

Fixed

• Community: opening or closing a channel group no longer reloads and flickers the whole community area. The channels now fold in and out one after another.

27 September 202608:19auslieferung-20260927-0819

Production map without single-country commodities, FAO historical series, Channel Islands flag, All minerals fix

Improved

• Production world map: the 12 USGS commodities that only the United States reports (crushed stone, sand and gravel, neon, krypton, xenon …) are no longer offered on the world map. They stay on the production tiles of the country pages.
• Discontinued FAO series (e.g. particle board and OSB, 1961–1994) are marked "(historical)".
• The Channel Islands have a flag: Jersey and Guernsey side by side, as there is no joint flag.

Fixed

• "All minerals" counted each commodity that only one country reports as a 100 % world share, which gave the United States twelve extra points. Such commodities are now left out of the sum of world shares.

27 September 202608:03auslieferung-20260927-0803

Companies map: sector > industry tree; Macro Terminal audit fixes (domestic credit in USD, IMF current year as forecast, REITs, duplicates)

Added

• Companies map: sector › industry as one tree. The sector menu folds open per sector to pick an industry within it, the sector matrix drills down into the industries of the chosen sector (with a way back to all sectors), and every row of "Sectors by importance" opens its industries with revenue and share. The company overview shows the path Sector › Industry, and each part selects itself in the menu. Competitors are now the companies with the same path. Only on the companies map; other pages are unchanged.
• Oil & Gas now shows natural gas production, and Metals & Minerals shows coal production (EIA). Both were loaded before, but no topic showed them.

Improved

• Company overview, largest money flows: country names and flags turn gold on hover and open the country page on click.

Fixed

• Domestic credit was shown as US dollars although the World Bank publishes it in local currency (Germany in euros, Japan in yen). It is now converted at the official exchange rate of the same year, on the map, in rankings and in the history.
• IMF figures for the current year are forecasts. They no longer count as the latest value, so government debt, budget balance and government revenue show the last completed year, and the current year appears as a forecast in the chart.
• Real estate investment trusts (Prologis, Welltower, American Tower …) were classified as asset management; they are real estate now.
• A renewable-electricity share above 100 % (Costa Rica 2025, Ember) is treated as a source error and left out.
• Air freight appeared twice (the same World Bank series under two names), and an empty "Health coverage" tile remained after its source was removed. Both are gone.
• The World page said "no DESK Score for this country yet"; it now explains that the score rates single countries.

26 September 202621:55auslieferung-20260926-2155

Gold reserves of central banks; DESK AI reaches all Macro Terminal datasets

Added

• Gold reserves of central banks (tonnes) for 84 countries and the euro area, from the IMF (International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity), since 1999: tile under FX Reserves, world map, rankings, history, sources page and methodology. A report whose gold would be worth more than the country's total reserves is left out (Angola).
• DESK AI reaches the remaining Macro Terminal datasets: export unit values per kg, history of trade, investment and migration flows, trade corridors, pipelines, ports, airports, rivers, natural resources (Factbook), conflict parties, retirement costs, the world production index, data alerts, how the crime and independence indices are built, and the SDR rate. For gold it shows central bank holdings next to gold in the ground.

Improved

• DESK AI map drafts: the legend lists every colour of marked countries, and the hint fits maps without pins or routes.

26 September 202621:34auslieferung-20260926-2134

DESK AI builds My Maps with preview and Add to My Maps

Added

• DESK AI builds My Maps: ask for a map (e.g. "the top 100 companies as pins, their main trade routes with labels, countries at war in red") and it draws an interactive draft in the answer – pins at the headquarters, labelled routes and coloured countries, with details on hover. "Add to My Maps" saves it as its own map, where everything can be edited. The routes are country trade (the home country's largest export partners or where the industry's raw materials come from), and the map says so; countries at war follow the UCDP definition (at least 1,000 conflict deaths in the latest full year) plus the wars DESK Radar tracks.

26 September 202621:10auslieferung-20260926-2110

Settings: own Emails section, Add button for community codes

Improved

• Settings: "Reports by email" has its own section "Emails" in the list on the left instead of the last row under Notifications.

Fixed

• Settings: the community code button reads "Add" instead of "Change" -- a code can only be added.

26 September 202620:55auslieferung-20260926-2055

Integrity audit: euro area, EU and Kosovo data under their DESK codes, same world values everywhere

Added

• Euro area page: quarterly GDP and business-cycle phase, business and consumer confidence, 3-month and 10-year rates, share price index, real and nominal effective exchange rate, house prices and IMF estimates. The data was in DESK under other source codes (XM, EA20, EA, EURO) and is now filed under the euro area.
• European Union page: business and consumer confidence, quarterly GDP and IMF estimates (EUQ, EU27_2020).
• Kosovo: democracy, corruption, prisoners, temperature and rainfall (OWID), oil figures (EIA), labour figures (ILO), drug figures (UNODC), direct investment partners (IMF), politics and cities. The sources list Kosovo as XKS, KOS, KSV, XXK or OWID_KOS.
• DESK AI: reads the DESK Reports (weekly and special reports) and the Trade Chain trend figures.
• Nightly cross-check: trend table = world chart, central bank rate in the Money tab = policy rate, net margin in DESK Impact = company page. New check for country codes that no page can find.

Improved

• DESK Impact: the ECB card is the euro area (euro area share prices and yields instead of Germany's) and is named "Euro area"; the euro as a whole appears among the currency swings.
• DESK Impact: quarterly results find the press release through the official SEC document index, as on the company page (e.g. files named "q2fy27pr.htm").
• Weekly report: the trade route facts carry the ship transits of the week against the recent average and the long-term norm.

Fixed

• Trade Chain trend table: world production of minerals is the USGS world total, and territories and former states no longer count in world sums, as on the world chart (gold 2025: 3,300 t, 5-year change +8.9 %).
• DESK AI: world totals and world shares now use the world chart's rule; the history tool returns the world series again.
• Bank of Japan: the Money tab and DESK Impact showed the overnight call rate as "BoJ policy rate" (0.98 %); now the policy rate (1.0 %) as on the country page.
• DESK Impact and Radar use the company page's net margin; 17 companies showed a different margin before.
• The Radar's ECB rate turn opens the euro area page and reads "Euro area" instead of "European Union".
• Euro area members include Bulgaria (since 1 January 2026) in the last list that still lacked it.
• IMF history and projection for Kosovo and Palestine.
• Weekly report: an empty cell in the Treasury yield curve no longer reads as 0 %.

26 September 202619:26auslieferung-20260926-1926

Reports by email, clickable supply and world flows, allies list

Added

• Settings → Notifications: "Reports by email" (off by default). The weekly report and every special report arrive as an email in DESK style with the PDF attached, in your main language.
• Companies map: the supply flows are clickable – an info tile shows the country's share with its ten-year history, its rank and, per good, the import value and share.
• Company overview: the allies row expands into the list of allied companies with their relationship and revenue.
• Company overview: every share under "Largest money flows" turns gold on hover and opens its history over the last ten years.

Improved

• Trade flows and money flows: the lines are clickable on the world view too, without a selected country.
• Attractiveness matrix: "Reset zoom" sits above the chart, top right, instead of inside it.
• Flow pages: the expand arrows of the partner rows sit on the far left, like everywhere else.

26 September 202619:01auslieferung-20260926-1901

Reports: choice inside the tile

Improved

• The report choice now sits inside each report tile, top right next to its label.

26 September 202618:57auslieferung-20260926-1857

Reports: wider choice list

Improved

• The report choice list opens wide enough to show the full titles.

26 September 202618:55auslieferung-20260926-1855

Reports: report choice per column instead of the archive

Improved

• Reports: the archive column is gone. Each of the two report columns has its own list at the top right to choose an earlier report of that kind; by default the latest is shown, and when a new report comes out the column switches to it by itself. Both columns use the full width again.

26 September 202618:50auslieferung-20260926-1850

Reports archive: PDF in English or German, spacing between entries

Improved

• Every entry in the Reports archive can be downloaded as a PDF in English or German (EN / DE).

Fixed

• The entries in the Reports archive no longer touch each other at the top and bottom edges.

26 September 202618:46auslieferung-20260926-1846

Reports: latest weekly and special side by side, archive on the right

Improved

• Reports shows the latest weekly report and the latest special report side by side, with the archive right next to them. When a new report comes out, the previous one moves to the archive.
• A report opened from the archive appears in its column (weekly left, special right); "Back to the latest" brings the newest back. Every archive entry also has its own PDF download.

26 September 202618:33auslieferung-20260926-1833

Report PDFs keep sections together; reports list refreshes itself; score card fits its content

Improved

• Report PDFs keep every section together: heading, text, box, table and chart always start on the same page, and a table never loses its last row to the next page. A section that no longer fits starts on the next page instead; only sections longer than a whole page are split.
• Two charts in a row stand side by side in the PDF.
• The Reports page picks up new reports by itself while it is open (every five minutes), without reloading.
• The DESK Score card on top of an enlarged tile fits its content and grows once the score history has loaded, instead of leaving empty space.

26 September 202618:16auslieferung-20260926-1816

DESK Reports: weekly report and special reports with PDF; plan change row; score card over enlarged tiles

Added

• Reports under Automation: every Saturday a weekly report on the calendar week – markets, data releases, the biggest developments of the week and what comes next week – with tables and charts.
• Special reports, at most two a week: when something big happens at one company or in one country, a report with the event, key figures, figures over the years, competitors, supply chain, both sides and what to watch.
• Every report can be read on the page and downloaded as a PDF in English or German, always with the same structure and design; an archive lists all reports by calendar week.
• Settings: a Change plan row in Subscription (upgrade to DESK Pro or back to DESK), active once billing starts.
• Sources: U.S. Treasury daily yield curve rates (for the weekly report).

Improved

• Figures, tables and charts in the reports are calculated by DESK from its sources; the texts are written from exactly these figures, every number is checked against them, and nothing in them is investment advice.

Fixed

• A DESK Score clicked inside an enlarged tile (for example Moat companies in the Radar) now opens its score card on top.

26 September 202617:10auslieferung-20260926-1710

Companies world map: matrix zoom inside the chart, competitors list, clickable figures, orange-red raw materials, gold hover; rounded reason list

Added

• Companies world map: the Competitors row of the company overview opens a ranked list of the competitors with their revenue.
• Companies world map: the shares of the BEA industries under Sector & attractiveness show their history on click.

Improved

• Companies world map: zooming a matrix only zooms the chart area; the axes stay in place and their numbers follow the visible range.
• Companies world map: with a company selected, its sector is marked red in the sector matrix and its row is highlighted in Sectors by importance.
• Companies world map: in Sector & attractiveness, the raw material's name itself selects it on the map and scrolls up; the "Show on the map" buttons are gone.
• Companies world map: with a raw material selected, the headquarters run from orange to red.
• Companies world map: the company overview lists up to ten countries under Largest money flows, its right column is a little smaller, and revenue and raw-material cents show their history on click.
• Companies world map: the revenues in the expanded rows of Sectors by importance show their history on click.
• The reason list on the cancellation page is rounded like the rest of the page.

Fixed

• Companies world map: the point under the mouse turns gold again instead of black.

26 September 202616:48auslieferung-20260926-1648

Cancel page with keep-or-delete account, light email design, English page addresses, DESK Score in the Radar opens again

Added

• When you cancel, you choose whether to keep your account or delete it. Keeping it saves your journal, portfolio and settings for when you renew; deleting it goes through a link sent to your account's email address, so no one can delete an account they do not own.
• Settings show a cancellation once it has been received.

Improved

• A simpler cancellation page: your account's email address, what should happen to your account, when, and an optional reason picked from a short list. The date field, a free-text reason and the extraordinary cancellation only open when you need them.
• All emails from DESK have a new, light design with a clean DESK wordmark instead of an image.
• Every public page now has an English address: /terms, /privacy, /legal-notice, /methodology, /withdrawal, /cancel, and so do the links in emails. The old addresses keep working and forward to the new ones.

Fixed

• Clicking a DESK Score in the Radar (for example under Moat companies) opens its score card again instead of closing it right away.

26 September 202616:18auslieferung-20260926-1618

Settings redesign with a Subscription section; welcome mail test option

Added

• Settings now have a Subscription section: your plan, its status, the renewal or end date once billing starts, this month's DESK Credits, and the direct way to cancel.

Improved

• The settings page has a new, calmer design: a list of sections on the left that follows you as you scroll, and on the right one card per section with a label and a short explanation on each row and the control beside it.
• Language, theme, TradingView and notification choices are now simple switches; email, password and community code open their form right in the row with "Change".
• Sign out and delete account sit together at the very end in their own red-edged card.

26 September 202616:01auslieferung-20260926-1601

Welcome email and welcome window, main language on the account (site and emails), email change needs confirmation, bilingual account emails, no community emails

Added

• A welcome email in DESK style once your address is confirmed: your plan, since when it is active, your renewal or end date once billing starts, and what DESK offers.
• New accounts start with a short welcome window: choose your main language (English or Deutsch), then a quick look at what DESK has.

Improved

• Your main language belongs to your account: the site and every email from DESK use it, on every device; change it any time in Settings.
• Changing your email address now needs a confirmation from the new address, and the old address gets a notice; until then the old address stays active.
• All account emails and the pages behind their links are available in English and German.
• DESK no longer sends community email notifications (no emails about chats, bots or earnings).

26 September 202615:34auslieferung-20260926-1534

Email limits under the provider's daily allowance and email watchdog (login check, monthly test mail, key expiry reminder)

Improved

• Clearer messages at sign-up when there were too many attempts or confirmation emails cannot be sent right now.

26 September 202614:53auslieferung-20260926-1453

Performance: outside fetches only while someone is active, no unused candle and ticker polling, no double Radar, revenue alignment writes only on change

Improved

• Less background load: the server only fetches from outside services (crypto, calendar, quarterly results) while someone is using DESK, and catches up at once when someone returns.
• The Crypto Terminal no longer loads its own price candles when the chart comes from TradingView, and the fallback ticker rests while the TradingView ticker is shown.
• Radar and earnings refresh only in the visible tab; the page preloads only the world average that matches your setting.

26 September 202614:16auslieferung-20260926-1416

Companies map company overview, clickable DESK Score everywhere, gold dots that keep size on zoom, AI rankings by comparison year

Added

• Companies world map: a short overview of the selected company – sector, headquarters, revenue, the raw materials it needs most, sites, allies, competitors and its largest money flows.
• Every DESK Score on the site turns gold on hover and opens its score tile on click, like in the Trade Chain tree.

Improved

• Companies world map: hovering a marker turns the whole dot gold, and it keeps its size when you zoom.
• Companies world map in "All" mode: the info box shows only the company name, with the flag of its headquarters country.
• The selected company is a red dot in the attractiveness matrix.
• "Open company page" sits next to the company chart title.
• The country search on the companies world map no longer shows country codes.
• Trade Chain: the exports/imports chart on the panels page has the green border of the trade flow map again; the chart in the resource view has the darker background with a light grey border.
• DESK AI rankings only compare values from the latest well-reported year on; older values are listed separately with their year.

Fixed

• Sectors by importance: rows open only via the arrow on the left, the share values no longer turn gold, and the selected row is highlighted grey without gold text.

26 September 202613:56auslieferung-20260926-1356

DESK AI check: answer language from the question, correct margins, latest CPI value, IMF estimates marked, only DESK/SEC links clickable

Improved

• DESK AI answers in the language of your question, even when the page is set to the other language.
• DESK AI gives the latest published value of an economic release (e.g. last CPI) together with the next date.
• DESK AI says when a figure is an IMF estimate for the current year, and that trade-chain cents per dollar refer to the whole BEA commodity group.

Fixed

• DESK AI net margins now refer to exactly the quarters shown (they could come from other quarters before).
• DESK AI answers only make DESK and SEC links clickable; any other web link stays plain text.

26 September 202613:35auslieferung-20260926-1335

Community online list per channel access; DESK Pro badge for a hand-picked account

Fixed

• Community: the online list of a channel only shows the members who can access that channel (e.g. DESK Pro or Pursuit of Trading Excellence), instead of every account.

26 September 202613:31auslieferung-20260926-1331

Euro area shows the European flag

Fixed

• The euro area shows the European flag instead of a black box, on its country page and wherever it appears in a list or heading.

26 September 202613:21auslieferung-20260926-1321

DESK AI: links repaired to known indicators, calm scroll with longer gold glow, euro area policy rate, M3 and ECB balance sheet

Added

• Euro area: policy rate (ECB), M3 money supply and the ECB balance sheet on its country page and in DESK AI; Bulgaria follows the ECB rate since joining the euro in January 2026.

Improved

• DESK AI links to a figure on a country page scroll there in one smooth move once the page has settled, and the section glows gold for about six seconds, even while the page is still loading data.
• Tiles reached from a DESK AI link or a search glow gold longer.
• DESK AI understands "euro area", "eurozone" and "ECB" for policy rate questions.

Fixed

• DESK AI links with an indicator name DESK doesn't know (e.g. "policy_rate") are corrected to the right indicator before the answer is saved, so the world map opens with it selected instead of GDP growth.

26 September 202613:07auslieferung-20260926-1307

Trends and companies map: industries per resource, sort toggle keeps selection, clickable values, supply flows from HQ, smoother markers

Added

• Values in the "Most dependent on …" raw-material table and in the "Sector & attractiveness" table open their history as a line chart.
• Supply flows on the companies world map can be switched on and off in the legend.
• Emojis next to the names in the raw materials and sectors dropdowns.

Improved

• Trends: the Industries column counts the industries that depend on exactly this resource (USGS end uses, otherwise the industries buying exactly this good in the BEA detail tables), instead of the same number for every resource.
• Trends: the Top 3 share column now sits right of "Imports 5 years".
• Supply flows start at the company's headquarters marker instead of the middle of the country.
• The revenue & net profit chart and the TradingView chart next to it take exactly the same space.
• Company tooltips on the companies world map have a gold border; in "All" mode the red dots have a white outline like in sector mode.
• The "Largest N" buttons of the attractiveness matrix only appear when N is below the total number of companies.
• The resource charts in the trade chain have a light grey border.

Fixed

• Clicking a sorted Trends column a second time removes the sorting while the selected resource stays at the top.
• The pointer on the companies world map no longer lags or flickers between crosshair and hand over markers, especially in "All" mode.
• No blue focus outline on the matrix legend entries.

26 September 202611:53auslieferung-20260926-1153

DESK AI: links to the exact tile, keyword indicators (one round less), one shared cache for all users

Improved

• DESK AI takes you straight to the right place: for an indicator it links its tile – DESK opens the right Macro Terminal tab, scrolls to the tile and flashes it – and the world map with the indicator selected, instead of a bare tab or map kind.
• DESK AI rankings and histories take plain keywords (e.g. "military spending"), which saves a lookup round and credits.
• One shared cache for all DESK AI users (with or without DESK Pro), so it stays warm more often.

26 September 202611:41auslieferung-20260926-1141

DESK AI: shared prompt cached for an hour, cache rewrites no longer charged to users

Improved

• DESK AI instructions and tool descriptions are shorter, so every question reads less.

Fixed

• DESK AI: a simple question could cost several times the usual credits when nobody had asked in the previous five minutes (the shared tools and instructions had to be written to the cache anew). They now stay cached for an hour, and rewriting them is no longer charged to your credits – a question costs about the same at any time.

26 September 202611:31auslieferung-20260926-1131

DESK AI reaches every sidebar area (8 new tools, all tabs as links, language switch); speech input picks its language, deleted text stays deleted

Added

• DESK AI reaches every area of the sidebar with eight new tools: - shipping through the 28 chokepoints and the ports of a country; - migration and refugees; - age structure and largest cities; - regional figures (house prices, rents, crime, US price levels); - DESK Score history of countries and companies; - the broker, platform and prop-firm guides; - the Market Geometry library; - DESK data updates.
• DESK AI: crypto cycle signals, Bitcoin dominance and coin price history.
• DESK AI: the attributes map (alliances, nuclear weapons, religions, coastline) in country politics.
• DESK AI links open every sidebar area, every Macro Terminal tab, every world-map kind, Crypto Terminal tabs with the coin selected, the Compare tab with countries preselected and a country-page tab.
• DESK AI can switch the page language with a button (the click confirms).

Improved

• Speech input picks German or English by itself from what you write in the chat (otherwise the browser language); the DE/EN switch only overrides for the session.
• DESK AI calendar answers carry the weekday computed by DESK.

Fixed

• Speech input: text you delete while the microphone is on no longer comes back, and after sending nothing drips back into the input bar.
• DESK AI could not read the broker, platform and prop-firm guides.

26 September 202611:05auslieferung-20260926-1105

DESK data updates: feed of new data from the sources, default in the Custom dashboard

Added

• DESK data updates: a small feed of what the data sources delivered – e.g. "World Bank published new data", with the topics and indicators that are new (new year or month, number of countries, revised values, reloaded histories). It is on the Sources page and sits in the Custom dashboard by default; remove it and it stays removed.

26 September 202610:53auslieferung-20260926-1053

DESK AI answers investment questions: earnings, financials, holders, votes, crypto markets; speech input DE/EN

Added

• DESK AI answers classic investment questions from DESK data with six new tools: - latest quarterly results (press release and CFO commentary filed with the SEC); - quarterly and annual financials, including free cash flow, P/E, P/B, P/S and dividend yield exactly as on the company page; - SEC filings with major shareholders (13G/13D) and annual-meeting votes; - company news; - how wars and price shocks hit a company; - crypto ETF flows, futures, on-chain data and the Fear & Greed history.
• Company page: capital expenditure and free cash flow in the financials table.
• Methodology: formulas for P/E, P/B, P/S, dividend yield and free cash flow.

Improved

• Speech input: its own DE/EN switch next to the microphone, preset to the browser language; before, it followed the page language and only heard English.
• DESK AI: rate-turn history for both cuts and hikes, whatever the current direction.
• DESK AI: monthly figures such as share-price indices have a history.
• DESK AI: the calendar looks up to 120 days ahead with a search word, so it finds the next FOMC meeting.
• DESK AI: companies can be found by ticker, and "Coca-Cola" finds The Coca-Cola Company.

Fixed

• Major-holder filings in the new SEC format ("SCHEDULE 13G", XML) were missing entirely. They are now read and show the issuer, so a company's own stakes in others (e.g. Nvidia in Nebius) are no longer mistaken for its shareholders.
• Results press releases whose file is not named "ex99" (e.g. Nvidia) now appear in the filing summary.

26 September 202610:22auslieferung-20260926-1022

Source revisions reload the stored history; indices follow their parts (WGI 2026 edition)

Improved

• When a source revises figures it had already published, DESK notices it and reloads that history in full right away, together with the other indicators of the same edition, instead of waiting for the next scheduled rebuild. Described on the Methodology page.

Fixed

• Governance indicators (voice & accountability, political stability, rule of law, corruption, government effectiveness, regulatory quality): the World Bank's new edition reworked every past year; the charts now carry the new figures and the year 2025, matching the country page.
• The crime index is recomputed as soon as one of its parts (murder rate, political stability) is newer than the index itself.

26 September 202610:12auslieferung-20260926-1012

DESK AI voice input, jump links to country figures, faster warm-up after restart

Added

• DESK AI: speak your question – the microphone button next to Send turns speech into text (browser speech recognition, English or German by page language).
• DESK AI links can jump straight to one figure on a country page: e.g. "US policy rate" opens the Central Bank tab and scrolls to the Policy Rate section, which briefly lights up in gold.

Improved

• After a server restart DESK warms all data in one pass right away (about 10 seconds instead of up to two minutes), in the order the page needs it.

26 September 202609:52auslieferung-20260926-0952

DESK AI trade chain graphic, Trends and companies map rework

Added

• DESK AI builds a trade chain exactly like the Trade Chain tree (main producers, industries by input share, producers, named users and dependent companies) and draws it as a graphic in the answer, saved with the chat.
• Trade Chain Trends: the situation of the selected resource (concentration, price trend, strained suppliers, export restrictions, outlook) now sits under the table.
• The resource situation in Panels, Tree and Trends has a world chart of the resource (world production, otherwise world exports).
• Company chart on the companies map: the TradingView chart next to revenue and net profit.

Improved

• Old DESK AI chats open instantly: they are preloaded in the background.
• On the DESK AI page only the chat scrolls, not the page.
• Trends table: new column order (reserves, production, exports, imports, industries, companies, export restrictions); the price trend left the table; clicking a sorted column again removes the sorting.
• Companies map: "Listed companies only" sits next to the title; sector and raw-material menus can be searched; hover texts show only the name (no "open company page" or "click a country" hints); allied companies in purple; the supply-flow legend shows a line; both attractiveness matrices have the same size.

Fixed

• Trends table: industries showed "–" for selected countries; they now count the chain's industries with companies based there.
• Companies map: the cursor flickered between crosshair and pointer on markers; markers now get a gold ring on hover.
• Companies map with a raw material: hovering a dot now names the company (and how many more sit at the same place).
• Sectors by importance: only the number under the pointer turns gold, not the whole row; legend entries no longer get a blue frame after a click.

26 September 202609:26auslieferung-20260926-0926

DESK AI reads journal and (Pro) portfolio, back button, centred chat

Added

• DESK AI reads your own DESK Journal: ask about win rate, stops, breakevens, targets, R, P&L or holding time, filtered by date, time of day (e.g. 09:30–16:00), symbol, account, direction, weekday, tag or method, with breakdowns by hour, weekday, month and more. Your browser calculates the figures exactly like the journal page.
• With DESK Pro, DESK AI also reads your portfolio: positions, allocation, structure and the diversification score.
• A "Back to DESK AI" button on every page a DESK AI link opens.

Improved

• The chat stays centred as before; the chat list sits on the left next to it.
• Company rankings name the overall rank across all companies, with DESK's own order for equal scores.

26 September 202609:09auslieferung-20260926-0909

DESK AI chat history and access to all DESK data areas

Added

• DESK AI chat history: all chats are saved with your account and listed on the left (Pinned, Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 days, Older), so they are available on every device. Right-click a chat (or use ⋯) to pin, rename or delete it; deleting asks first.

Improved

• Follow-up questions use the saved chat, so context carries over reliably.
• "Oil" is understood as crude oil, "gas" as natural gas.
• The privacy policy explains DESK AI and the saved chats.

26 September 202608:51auslieferung-20260926-0851

DESK AI ranks companies by DESK Score

Fixed

• DESK AI can now rank companies by DESK Score, overall or filtered by country and industry, instead of wrongly saying DESK had no such ranking. Rankings are treated as information, not advice.
• Link buttons always carry a readable label, e.g. the company name.

26 September 202608:45auslieferung-20260926-0845

Sidebar entry renamed to DESK AI, simpler credits info

Improved

• The AI Assistant entry in the sidebar is now called DESK AI; the page no longer shows a Beta badge or a second title.
• The DESK Credits info field only says what the credits cover and when they refill.

26 September 202608:42auslieferung-20260926-0842

Tour offer only once per page, remembered with the account

Fixed

• The tour offer at the top of a page now appears only the first time you open that page, remembered with your account: moving on without clicking counts, and it no longer comes back after a reload or on another device. The Tour button stays.

26 September 202608:36auslieferung-20260926-0836

DESK AI assistant with DESK Credits, Radar explanations fixed

Added

• DESK AI under Automation → AI Assistant: ask about countries, raw materials, trade chains, companies, central banks or current events. It looks everything up in DESK itself (no web access) and answers with buttons that open the right page with everything preselected — the resources map with the resource selected, the production map, the trade chain with countries, country and company pages, dictionary entries, Impact, Radar and the calendar.
• DESK AI explains rate moves with what DESK measured after earlier turns of the same central bank, compares countries in tables and declines investment advice.
• DESK Credits: one monthly pot for all AI features (DESK AI, portfolio analyst, Radar explanations), shown wherever AI is used, refilled on the 1st of each month.
• The AI Assistant page has its own tour; the methodology page explains how answers and credits are calculated.

Fixed

• Radar explanations and company headline summaries came back empty: the model used up the answer length for thinking. Short texts now run without it.
• The portfolio analyst now addresses users informally in German, like the rest of DESK.

25 September 202622:02auslieferung-20260925-2202

DESK Score for smaller countries, Trends table with imports, reserves, companies and industries

Improved

• Trade Chain, Trends: - The selected resource is marked in gold and the table jumps to it, even if it belongs to another group or has no figures. - New columns: Imports, Imports 5 yrs, Companies (the companies that depend on the resource, counted as in the Tree) and Industries (industries that use it as an input). - "Reserves" shows the USGS reserves themselves instead of reserves ÷ production. - Clearer names: Production and Exports without "World", "Price trend (1 year)", "Export restrictions". The sort arrow is gone; the sorted column is gold. - Country rows show imports, reserves and the companies based in the country. - Up to four selected countries stand in one row. - The resource search has no "All …" entries on this page.
• Trade Chain: with "only major economies & companies" the resource search lists only the major resources, the commodities the World Bank prices in its monthly Pink Sheet.

Fixed

• DESK Score: countries outside the major economies (Namibia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and others) showed "No DESK Score yet" while "only major economies" was on. Their page now shows the score with their place among all countries and a note, on the country page and in Radar sheets.
• Trade Chain, Trends: positive changes are green again. They showed white because the colour was not defined.

25 September 202621:46auslieferung-20260925-2146

Smoother and deeper Macro Terminal tours, violence list opens every country

Improved

• Tours run smoothly. After a click the tour moves on as soon as the next spot is ready, instead of waiting a fixed second. Going back no longer waits. Windows that a step opens (a figure's history, a topic) are explained inside the window and closed as part of the tour, with no "Tour paused" in between.
• Every longer tour says on its first step roughly how long it takes and how many steps it has.
• Macro Terminal tours go into depth: - Country page: key figures and their full history, most similar countries, the DESK Score (the number, its history, what it is made of, the public formulas, the neighbours in the ranking), the central bank (policy rate, money supply, balance sheet, with a topic window opened), public finances, where the economy stands in the cycle, and the markets. - Company page: overview, the company's DESK Score and its parts, financials, safety, raw-material dependency and what world events mean for the company. - The Dashboard and Companies tours now lead into a country page or a company page and back.

Fixed

• DESK Radar, "Where violence reports are rising": every country opens its sheet, also with "only major economies" switched on. Before, countries with their own report outside the major economies, such as Ethiopia, did not open.

25 September 202621:29auslieferung-20260925-2129

Violence list window rebuilt, Macro Terminal tabs as four groups

Improved

• Macro Terminal: four tabs centred at the top – Start, Explore, Topics, Tools – in the style of the Dashboard and Life & Spirit. Below them, aligned left, stand only the tabs of the chosen group. A group opens the tab you used there last.

Fixed

• DESK Radar, "Where violence reports are rising": the enlarged list is now its own window. Clicking a country opens its sheet on top, and closing the sheet brings the list back with search, sorting and scroll position. Before, the enlarged tile closed on a click, some countries did not open, the search could not be cleared with its × and the size jumped after a few seconds.

25 September 202620:26auslieferung-20260925-2026

Security audit fixes, warm-up after restart restored, Brotli for the page script

Improved

• The page script goes out Brotli-compressed: about 27 % smaller than before (1.3 instead of 1.8 MB), packed once in the background and kept on disk.
• Custom dashboard: widgets load only when they are in view, and the state list the build writes is a third of its former size.
• Security: attachments must be exactly one file from DESK's own storage, personal settings are size-limited, sessions accept only HS256, javascript: links from outside sources do nothing, and HSTS and a permissions policy are sent.

Fixed

• Loading after a server restart: the server warms its caches again right after start. A security change in the last delivery had shut the warm-up out, so the first visitor after every restart had to wait for everything to be computed.
• Security: a person's message list in their profile showed posts from restricted channels (DESK Pro, POTE) to members without access. Reactions and replies could also reach a restricted message by its number and return its text. All three now stay inside the channels you can see.
• Security: site icons fetched from other websites, including SVG images, are served as sealed documents without script. Redirects and icon links are checked hop by hop, so no request can be steered to the phone itself or the home network behind it.
• Security: DESK only accepts connections through the tunnel. Direct connections from the same Wi-Fi as the phone are refused.
• Security: signing out ends the session on the server too, so an old copy of the sign-in cookie stops working. The sign-in takes the same time with or without an account, so the timing no longer reveals which email addresses are registered.
• Security: removing an account also removes its calendar and calendar subscription link, food log, steps, Google connection and assistant usage.

25 September 202619:54auslieferung-20260925-1954

Custom dashboard with widgets from any tile, DESK Pro channels, account removal without ban, Impact tour step 10 fixed

Added

• Custom dashboard: right-click any tile anywhere in DESK – a chart, a map with its selection (for example World map, Resources, Gold), the journal calendar, a single figure like Net P&L, a WHOOP tile – and choose "Add to dashboard". It appears live on the Custom tab. Drag a header to move it, drop it on another tile to swap the two, and pull an edge or the gold corner to resize; the content scales along. Widgets can be reloaded, opened in DESK or removed with undo. The layout belongs to your account. DESK Pro tiles stay locked for accounts without DESK Pro.
• Community: right-click a channel → "Add as a chat window" puts the live channel on the Custom dashboard.
• Community: a new collapsible DESK Pro group with General and Trades, visible only to accounts with DESK Pro.
• DESK accounts can remove another account without a ban: profile, friends, follows, journal, portfolio and settings are deleted, the email address stays free for a new registration.

Improved

• Dashboard: two tabs, Custom first and Favorites second. The Today section is gone. The dashboard tour explains both tabs.
• Right-click opens the DESK menu instead of the browser menu on tiles. Tiles with their own right-click action keep it; Shift + right-click opens the browser menu.

Fixed

• DESK Impact tour, step 10: clicking a company row opens the calculation, highlights it and continues. Before, the step stayed greyed out and did not advance.
• A deleted account could still use its old sign-in cookie for up to 30 days; it is now signed out on the next request.

25 September 202618:29auslieferung-20260925-1829

Tour button in the header, DESK Pro badge and PRO mark in Community, uniform five-tile rows in DESK Impact

Added

• DESK Pro badge: accounts with DESK Pro show the gold DESK PRO mark in their profile, and in Community messages a small black-and-gold PRO sits next to the author's name.

Improved

• The Tour button now sits in the page header, top right, on every page and tab. It starts the tour of the view you are on, and the first-visit offer opens right below it.
• DESK Impact overview: Companies, Money & rates, Price moves, Economy and Natural events each show five tiles of equal size in one row. Each tile has the type, title, one sentence, two key numbers, a small chart where it fits and "Details" at the bottom. Wars keep their large tiles with the chain of effects.
• Dashboard "Today" shows the five most important events as the same uniform tiles.

25 September 202617:10auslieferung-20260925-1710

Macro tabs in four columns, situation on top of the Tree, trend table with charts and country rows

Added

• Trade Chain, Trends: pick countries and their rows appear under the selected resource. Each row shows the country's production, its 5-year change, its share of world production, exports, reserves ÷ production and export restrictions, each with its own chart.

Improved

• Macro Terminal, tabs: a new layout with four columns in working order (1 Start, 2 Explore, 3 Topics, 4 Tools). Each column is a card with one line on what it is for, and the nine topics sit in the wide middle as a 3×3 grid. All tabs stay visible at once.
• Trade Chain, Tree: the situation of the resource (concentration, price trend, stressed suppliers) now stands on top of the tree as well, in the same place as on the Panels page.
• Trade Chain, Trends: every figure in the table turns gold on hover and opens its line chart. The chart shows world production, the 5-year change, the top-3 share, exports, the price, reserves ÷ production and the share of exports under restrictions, per year.

25 September 202616:08auslieferung-20260925-1608

World Mining Data (BMF Vienna) fills mine production of smaller producing countries, calibrated against USGS

Added

• Mine production of the smaller producing countries from World Mining Data (Federal Ministry of Finance, Vienna), used with the ministry's permission. It fills the countries and years the USGS leaves empty, often up to 2024 – for example gold in 106 countries. It flows into the country pages, the production maps and the Trade Chain.
• Sources page: World Mining Data, with a link to the ministry's page.

Improved

• Methodology: World Mining Data reports metal content where the USGS often reports concentrate, so each of its 52 minerals is checked against the USGS figures first. Only the 27 that match fill gaps, and those years stay out of every world total.

25 September 202615:19auslieferung-20260925-1519

Tours pause and resume, let you try windows, explain more, Pro texts, fixed highlight; Esc closes the topmost window

Improved

• Tours pause instead of breaking: if you leave the page (a click in the sidebar, a term that opens the Dictionary) or open a window the step does not expect, the tour pauses. "Continue the tour" brings you back to the same step, and coming back by yourself resumes it too.
• Tours let you try things: "Enlarge", "All countries", a number with its chart, the everyday prices of a commodity. The window opens, the tour waits, and once you close it the tour goes on.
• Tours explain more: the sheet of a commodity in the Radar (everyday prices such as petrol and diesel, companies by impact, related reports, sources), and in DESK Impact the consumer-price window and the calculation behind each company row.
• Tours, "Explain" in the Radar: the tour now waits until you have read the explanation.
• Tours, DESK Pro: steps for Pro features (earnings, ETF flows, liquidations, my portfolio) carry the Pro badge. Members with DESK Pro get the Pro version of the text, everyone else a note on what Pro shows.
• Tours: the highlight sits fixed on its target while you scroll; it only glides when the step changes.
• Tours: the last step of the Dashboard tour now points at the Tour button bottom right, and a missing target no longer holds a step for seconds.
• Esc closes the topmost window first: the everyday-price window over a Radar sheet, a ranking, a sub-topic or a journal window.

25 September 202614:34auslieferung-20260925-1434

Guided tours on every page and tab, Today on the dashboard, DESK Impact: start day and daily prices for new wars, order by world impact, company quarterly results, compact tiles with live charts

Added

• Guided tours on every page: a "Tour" button bottom right walks you through the page. The rest dims, a gold arrow points from the explanation to the spot to click, and the tour goes on once you have clicked it. There is one tour for every sidebar page and for every tab of the Macro Terminal (16), the Crypto Terminal (6), Life & Spirit (2), DESK Impact and the country and company pages. On the first visit of a page the tour offers itself once.
• Dashboard, Today: the most important current events from DESK Impact now stand at the top of the start page, instead of an empty page.
• DESK Impact, Companies: quarterly results of the companies on the Companies map from the last 14 days (SEC 8-K). Each shows the key sentences of the press release word for word, revenue, net income and earnings per share against a year earlier, links to all documents and the share chart.
• DESK Impact, daily prices: Brent, WTI, Henry Hub, diesel, heating oil, gasoline, jet fuel and propane per trading day (U.S. EIA), refreshed every six hours.
• DESK Impact, live chart: war and price cards show a TradingView chart (delayed) of the affected commodity, and the full war sheet can switch between them.

Improved

• DESK Impact, new wars count from the day they start: prices are compared with the last close before, shipping with the same days of earlier years, consumer prices with the last value before. Before, everything counted from 1 January of the start year.
• DESK Impact, ordered by impact on the world: what becomes scarce is ordered by the value of world exports from there, what got more expensive by the extra cost for the world. The sentence and the chain now lead with the blocked strait and oil, not with sulphur.
• DESK Impact, where the fighting is: for new wars, the headlines decide which side is the target. When the U.S. strikes Iran, U.S. soybeans are no longer listed as scarce.
• DESK Impact, importers: the tables show the value imported from there next to the share of the country's imports, ordered by value. Countries behind a blocked strait count as well (China, India, Japan behind Hormuz).
• DESK Impact is shorter: compact tiles with one sentence, the chain, the key numbers and a chart. The overview shows three per kind, "Details" opens the full sheet, and the back button returns to the same place.
• DESK Impact, companies with extra cost: now labelled as an industry average, with a note why a power utility can appear under crude oil.
• DESK Radar, supply & infrastructure: local reports without a commodity (tree trimming, a metro station) are hidden and can be found with the new search field. Shares that round to 0 % are gone.
• DESK Impact, "Only what affects my portfolio" is a DESK Pro feature, locked like the portfolio.

25 September 202613:19auslieferung-20260925-1319

DESK Impact: tidy trade restrictions toolbar, shrinking-quarter list in the shorter column

Fixed

• DESK Impact, trade restrictions: "Only major goods", reset and enlarge now sit side by side in the heading line instead of on top of each other.
• DESK Impact, economy: the list of countries with one shrinking quarter now fills the shorter column instead of hanging below the longer one.

25 September 202613:09auslieferung-20260925-1309

DESK Impact: USGS earthquake details in the enlarged card, all export restrictions in force with Only major goods, recession comparisons for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, explained terms open the Dictionary

Added

• DESK Impact, earthquakes: enlarge a card to see what the USGS event page shows, right in DESK. This covers the people and value exposed at each intensity, the probability of each range of deaths and economic losses, cities by shaking, the USGS assessment (buildings, secondary effects, history) and earlier earthquakes nearby.
• DESK Impact, earthquakes: the small card also shows the strongest shaking (ShakeMap) and the number of people at that level. If nothing lies within 100 km, it names the nearest known company site and seaport with their distance.
• DESK Impact, trade restrictions: an "Only major goods" switch keeps the goods DESK follows as a commodity, from every country, since important goods also come from small countries.

Improved

• DESK Impact, trade restrictions: the card now lists all 5,012 export restrictions in force in the OECD inventory (58 countries), not only those new in the latest year. New ones carry a marker, and "Only major economies" no longer hides countries here.
• DESK Impact, recession: Kuwait and Saudi Arabia now have comparisons. Every month of a past recession quarter counts, and industrial production, inflation and the World Bank stock index join share prices and long-term yields.
• DESK Impact, explained terms: hovering shows the explanation at the mouse from the first visit on. A click opens the Dictionary entry, with a button back to DESK Impact.
• DESK Impact: the external USGS link is gone.
• Macro terminal: coming from DESK Impact, the back button now says "Back to DESK Impact".

25 September 202612:06auslieferung-20260925-1206

DESK Impact for newcomers: plain sentence, chain, glossary, vs. usual, past cases, next dates, my portfolio, new triggers, since last visit, introduction

Added

• DESK Impact, in one sentence: every card now opens with a plain-language sentence on what happened and, where it can be measured, what followed in earlier phases like this.
• DESK Impact, chain: each card shows the typical path from cause to effect, for example Fed balance sheet grows → more money in the system → what yields and share prices did before.
• DESK Impact, terms explained: words such as balance sheet, policy rate, rate turn, effective exchange rate or recession explain themselves on hover.
• DESK Impact, "vs. usual": a new column shows how much more or less often a figure rose after months like now than after all months; median and number of months sit right under each figure.
• DESK Impact, last times like this: the three most recent earlier phases with their dates, a name where one fits (e.g. Financial crisis, Covid-19) and what happened 12 months later.
• DESK Impact, next date: the next U.S. calendar entry that can change a card (Fed decision, CPI, GDP, EIA oil and gas data).
• DESK Impact, "Only what affects my portfolio": shows only cards that concern companies from your portfolio or watchlist, with a marker on each card.
• DESK Impact, new triggers: currency swings (BIS), recessions and one-quarter contractions, new export restrictions (OECD inventory) and significant earthquakes (USGS) with company sites and ports nearby.
• DESK Impact, since your last visit: which cards are new and which are gone, and a "new" marker on new cards.
• DESK Impact, introduction: a short four-step guide on the first visit, available again at any time.
• Company pages, Macro & geopolitics: sites near a significant earthquake.

25 September 202611:18auslieferung-20260925-1118

Better sources: CPI from Transparency International, renewables from Ember, house prices from BIS, GEM for Israel/Hong Kong/Macao

Improved

• Corruption Perceptions Index now includes 2025, straight from Transparency International (via Our World in Data it still ended in 2024).
• Renewable share of electricity now comes from Ember, up to 2025 for about 90 countries (U.S. EIA ended in 2024).
• House prices now come from the BIS: 57 countries instead of 47, mostly up to the second quarter of 2026, rebased to 2015 = 100; Saudi Arabia keeps the OECD series.
• Israel, Hong Kong and Macao now have the monthly series of the Global Economic Monitor (inflation, unemployment, trade, reserves, stock market and more); they had been left out.
• Effective exchange rates now include Taiwan.

Fixed

• The euro area no longer appears as a country ("LIC") among the effective exchange rates and house prices.

25 September 202610:12auslieferung-20260925-1012

Data freshness audit: tax wedge to 2025, land use from FAOSTAT, effective exchange rates from BIS, self-discovering editions, faster refresh

Improved

• Tax burden on wages (tax wedge, employee taxes, income tax on wages) now runs to 2025 instead of 2023 for all 38 OECD countries.
• Forest area now runs to 2025, agricultural and arable land to 2024 (before: 2023). They come directly from FAOSTAT instead of via the World Bank.
• Real and nominal effective exchange rates are monthly up to the latest month (now August 2026) for 63 countries, from the BIS. Before, they stopped in October 2024.
• Faster refresh: consumer prices every 3 days, World Bank commodity prices every 2 days, energy imports by origin and conflict data weekly.

25 September 202609:33auslieferung-20260925-0933

Impact consumer prices open the Radar everyday-price window

Improved

• DESK Impact, consumer prices: clicking a row (petrol, diesel, heating oil …) opens the same window as in DESK Radar. It shows all countries from most to least expensive, lets you switch between petrol and diesel and choose a currency, and opens the selected country with its history.

25 September 202609:28auslieferung-20260925-0928

Journal remembers tab, folder and sorting; Date as first sort level

Improved

• DESK Journal: the page remembers where you left off. After a reload you are back in the same tab and folder, with the same sorting.
• DESK Journal: Date is the first sort level from the start. Click Entry time to add it as the second level; Date can still be removed.

25 September 202609:17auslieferung-20260925-0917

Journal multi-sort with plain clicks; no white scroll corner

Improved

• DESK Journal: sorting by several columns works with plain clicks. Click Date, then Entry time, and the trades are sorted by date and then by entry time. Click a sorted column again to reverse it. The bar above the table shows the order, with × for each level and "Reset sorting".

Fixed

• Tiles that scroll both ways no longer show a white square in the bottom-right corner.

25 September 202609:10auslieferung-20260925-0910

Journal multi-column sorting; Impact card layout, country choice in the card, crosshair in commodity sheets, clearer forward charts

Added

• DESK Journal: sort trades by several columns at once. Shift-click a column heading to add it as the next level, for example date and then entry time; a bar above the table shows the order, and each level can be removed.

Improved

• DESK Impact: the country for consumer prices can be chosen directly in the card, to the right of the heading.
• DESK Impact: all tables of a card start at the same height; the enlarge icon sits in the heading line.
• DESK Impact: the "after months like now" charts explain their grey and gold lines, and the series chart says it shows the series itself.

Fixed

• DESK Impact: the crosshair works in the charts of a commodity sheet (price and published outlooks); before, the mouse pointer simply vanished there.

25 September 202608:48auslieferung-20260925-0848

Larger centred chart pop-ups; gold hover on all clickable figures; Impact consumer-price country fix

Improved

• Chart pop-ups everywhere are larger and centred on the screen.
• Clickable figures turn gold with a light highlight on hover, including red and green ones and the whole "70 % rose" in DESK Impact.
• DESK Impact: the consumer-price table names its country in the heading.

Fixed

• DESK Impact: switching the country for consumer prices in the enlarged view no longer jumps back to Germany while showing another country's data.

25 September 202608:34auslieferung-20260925-0834

Macro Terminal: all tabs on one grouped board; company dependency charts; clearer country field

Added

• Trade Chain, "Companies that depend on it": click a company's figure for its line chart, computed the same way for each year (industry need per dollar × import reliance of its home country).

Improved

• Macro Terminal: all 16 tabs are shown on one board, grouped under their headings (Start, Explore, Tools, Topics). Hovering a tab tells you what it shows.
• Trade Chain, combined map: the country field says which companies it counts ("Companies based here") and breaks them down into named producers, same industry and dependent industries.

25 September 202608:17auslieferung-20260925-0817

Cross-check fixes: USGS world total in the annual table; monthly figures always current

Fixed

• Mineral production: the world value in the annual table is now the USGS world total, the same figure as the world chart (for example industrial sand and gravel 2025: 430 instead of 402 million t).
• Country pages: monthly figures (stock market, bond yields, policy rates, business cycle and others) always show the latest data. Colombia's stock market had shown a value from 2016.

25 September 202607:55auslieferung-20260925-0755

Macro Terminal tab menu; DESK Impact tables, popups and charts; combined map country field and sea routes; reserves history and outlook; resource map by reserves; company event tiles

Added

• Country pages: share prices (OECD index, monthly since 1960) and the 3-month interest rate; under Resources, where natural gas, crude oil and hard coal come from (Eurostat, European countries: latest year, crude oil also the last 12 months, five years earlier for comparison, shares over time on click).
• Company pages, Macro & geopolitics: what current events mean for the company. Three tiles show its sites in countries at war, the extra cost of today's price moves as a share of revenue and profit, and its largest single burden; a table ranks each raw material by that burden.
• Company pages, Safety: the home stock market in each crisis (OECD index of the headquarters country) — the market, until the company's own share prices come with licensed data.
• Trade Chain, panels: a fifth field "Outlook" showing reserve reach in years (world reserves ÷ world production) and the World Bank price forecast.
• Trade Chain, combined map: hovering a country shows all four stages at once (occurrence or reserves, production, exports and imports, companies). The map also shows the usual sea routes of the largest flows, with the straits and last week's ship traffic, as on the tree map.
• Reserves over the years (USGS, earlier editions): click a reserves figure for its line chart.

Improved

• Macro Terminal: one bar instead of two rows of buttons. "All tabs" opens a menu of all 16 tabs by group, each with one line on what it shows; next to it, the path and the other tabs of the group.
• DESK Impact: every table shows 6 rows with no inner scrollbar. Larger tables open enlarged with a search that names what it searches. Popups no longer scroll the page behind them, and rows expand only inside the popup. Charts open where they make sense: price peaks, consumer prices, and the "after months like now" figures. Cards without a measurable effect are hidden, cards sit in balanced columns, and there is a "Major economies only" switch. The information-only note is compact.
• Resource World Map: colours by reserves (or area, herd, forest) where the Trade Chain knows a figure, with the value in the hover text and the table ranked by it, instead of just "named".
• Trade Chain: export-restriction and reserves figures open line charts (gold on hover); reserves read "13 kt · 19.7%".
• 10-year bond yield for 12 more countries (China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Baltic states, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria) and current again where the series had stopped; it now opens its history on click like the other figures.
• Stock market (yoy) also for Costa Rica and Israel.
• Trade Chain: the price history goes back to 1960 (World Bank, monthly); export restrictions name the goods in plain words and the stated purpose.

Fixed

• Trade Chain: the back button on "Open map" pages reads only "← Back".

24 September 202622:17auslieferung-20260924-2217

Faster restart; DESK Impact replaces Compass; war sheet tables, restrictions in plain words, company explanations; Radar under News

Added

• DESK Impact (Automation) replaces DESK Compass: one card per trigger — wars, central banks (Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan), central banks that just turned, and the commodities whose price moved most — with what it has measurably moved, which countries and companies feel it, and what followed over the next 12 months in the same situation in the past, next to what followed in all months. Not investment advice.
• Share price indices and interest rates by country, monthly since 1960 (OECD), and World Bank commodity prices since 1960.

Improved

• DESK Radar war sheet: sortable tables (click a column, again for the other direction), enlarge with search and reset; the latest crude-oil figures are the last 12 months; export restrictions grouped per country, measure and product group, in plain words with purpose and periods; companies with sites there and companies that depend on the commodities open an explanation of what it means for them (share of known sites; extra cost against revenue and profit).
• A sheet opened from within a sheet has a back button.
• Consumer prices: flags in the country list. "Most recent" shows ten rows and can be enlarged. Commodity map: one symbol per commodity group.
• DESK Radar now sits under News in the sidebar.

Fixed

• After a restart the server was blocked for about 25 seconds on a PC (much longer on the phone): every data lookup checked the file on disk. Now everything is ready after about 8 seconds.

24 September 202621:10auslieferung-20260924-2110

Radar: what each war moves; DESK Compass; all Radar developments; badge and live updates

Added

• DESK Radar, ongoing wars: the sheet now shows what this one war moves — sea routes on the parties' coasts with traffic since the war, a map of the fighting and of the countries that depend on it, affected commodities (share of world exports, world price peak and now), the most dependent countries, Europe's gas, oil and coal imports from there, consumer prices per country since the war (heating oil, gas, electricity, fuel, food), the parties' export restrictions and the companies concerned. Each war separately; the key facts stay below.
• DESK Compass (Automation): where to start — the Radar developments ordered from cause to effect (shocks, countries, commodities, companies), linked where the data measures a link, with the three longest chains on top. No investment advice.
• Energy imports by country of origin for European countries (Eurostat): natural gas, crude oil, hard coal since 2010.

Improved

• DESK Radar loads faster: the company lists of a commodity come with its sheet.

Fixed

• DESK Radar showed only a selection: 12 of 134 commodities, 54 of 198 country and 53 of 113 company developments. Now everything; each group shows a first row and the rest on request.
• DESK Radar: the yellow count in the sidebar could show old developments as new again. Updates now every five minutes and right away when you return to the tab.

24 September 202620:09auslieferung-20260924-2009

Macro tabs grouped; competitors and allies on the company map; occurrence values in the Trade Chain; energy production maps; back button from Trade Chain maps

Added

• Macro Terminal: the tabs are grouped — Start, Explore, Topics, Tools on top, the tabs of the chosen group below; each group remembers its last tab.
• Company world map: two new layers for a selected company — competitors (headquarters of the largest companies in the same industry) and allied companies (parent, owners, subsidiaries, holdings, sister companies and partnerships, with lines to the company).
• Trade Chain, resource map: how much of a resource a country has — proved reserves of oil, natural gas and coal (CIA World Factbook), area harvested for crops, livestock for meat, milk, eggs and wool (FAO), forest area for wood (FAO).
• Natural gas and coal production by country (EIA, 1980–2024).

Improved

• Company world map: "Listed companies only" is a plain checkbox without a border.

Fixed

• Trade Chain: "All energy" now has a production map (share of world output of oil, gas and coal); gas and coal show their own production.
• Trade Chain: "Open map" on the four maps now has a back button to the Trade Chain.
• Large cubic-metre figures read in km³ instead of millions of m³.

24 September 202619:21auslieferung-20260924-1921

Mineral world lines from the USGS world total (gold 1998-2025); annual charts show years

Fixed

• World lines of minerals: they now show the USGS's own world total instead of the sum of the countries the report happens to list. Gold no longer breaks off in 2022 and no longer sits a fifth below the world: 1998–2025, 2,460 t → 3,300 t. The same applies to 74 minerals (copper 23 Mt, cement 3.8 Gt in 2025) and to the world trend tables of the production map.
• Charts of annual figures show years on the axis instead of "Jan 1998" — in every series window on the site.

24 September 202618:57auslieferung-20260924-1857

Production: alcohol chain as fifth category; mineral production for all producing countries from USGS country reports; empty Overview columns hidden

Added

• Production: new category Alcohol — hops, malt, malt extract, grape must, beer (barley, sorghum, millet, maize), wine, vermouth, cider, spirits and ethyl alcohol, for up to 170 countries (FAO production statistics and Supply Utilization Accounts). Also on the country pages ("Alcohol & beverages"), the production map and in the Trade Chain.
• Mineral production for all producing countries: the USGS country reports fill the countries the Mineral Commodity Summaries group as "other countries" — e.g. cement 21 → 145 countries, gold 21 → 93, silver 15 → 64, copper 17 → 56, zinc 13 → 51. Only for 41 minerals whose figures match the Summaries wherever both report.

Improved

• Overview table: columns without a single value are no longer shown ("Health coverage" had been empty since its licence review).
• Production world charts show years on the axis instead of "Jan".

24 September 202617:56auslieferung-20260924-1756

Trade Chain: USGS end uses, users by end use, unit value since 1900; company map without question mark, plain listed-only checkbox

Added

• Trade Chain: end uses of each resource as stated by the USGS (17 resources, e.g. lithium 88 % batteries, cobalt 51 % superalloys), shown above the dependent industries.
• Trade Chain: named users now also found through USGS end uses — battery makers for lithium and graphite, engine makers for cobalt, solar manufacturers and jewellers for silver, galvanizers for zinc.
• Trade Chain: unit value since 1900 (USGS Data Series 140, 86 minerals), nominal and in 1998 dollars, opened from the price field.
• Dictionary: End use, Superalloy, Unit value.

Improved

• Company map: the circled question mark is gone; "Listed companies only" is a plain checkbox like "Only major economies & companies".
• Company maps: named users have their own colour and legend entry on both maps.
• Charts with several lines: annual data shows years on the axis instead of "Jan", and the source note is shown.

24 September 202617:12auslieferung-20260924-1712

Trade Chain: USGS reserves and prices, OECD export restrictions, trend table, named users and producers, lithium hydroxide; review of all remaining tabs

Added

• Trade Chain: reserves by country from the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (53 minerals) replace the CIA Factbook mentions on the resource map, in the "Largest reserves" list and in the country boxes, with each country's share of world reserves. For lithium, Chile now leads (9.2 Mt) — the Factbook did not list it at all.
• Trade Chain: price trend for resources without a World Bank series (lithium, cobalt, rare earths, gallium, germanium, graphite and others) — the annual USGS price, with the USGS wording and unit.
• Trade Chain: export restrictions from the OECD Inventory of Export Restrictions on Critical Raw Materials, as a fourth field in the situation panel. It shows the share of world exports from countries with a measure in force, with its history since 2009. "More on …" lists every country's measures: bans, quotas, export taxes, licensing and others.
• Trade Chain: a third view, "Trends", with one row per resource: world production and its change over five years, top-3 share, world exports and their change, price vs. the year before, reserves ÷ production, and exports under restriction. It can be sorted by any column and filtered by group. Series that ended before the latest year of their source appear grey at the end.
• Trade Chain: named users — companies whose own product entries name a product made from the resource (lithium-ion batteries, copper wire, lithium grease …) — are listed first among the dependent companies and can be picked in the tree.
• Companies: a note under the map explains why the counts differ between the map, the country list and the industry map.
• Dictionary: nine new terms, among them mineral reserves, reserves-to-production ratio, export restriction, export ban, export quota, critical raw materials, spodumene, lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide.

Improved

• Lithium trade now counts lithium hydroxide (HS 282520) as well as lithium carbonate. China's lithium exports for 2023 rise from $0.4B to $6.7B. A note explains that lithium ore concentrate (spodumene) sits in a mixed trade code.
• Lithium producers: Albemarle, SQM, Mineral Resources, Pilbara Minerals and Liontown now appear as named producers. Every company now carries its Wikidata short description, which finds producers such as Kazatomprom, Cameco, Codelco and Fortescue across all resources.
• Resources that the OECD inventory does not cover (energy, farm goods) now read "not in the OECD inventory" instead of "no restriction".
• Profile and sidebar show the community name (e.g. "Trader 53") when no own name is set.
• Crypto: returning to the terminal now reloads the prices immediately instead of showing those of the last visit for up to 90 seconds.
• Countries and territories that appear only in the trade data (Montserrat, Anguilla, Falkland Islands, Holy See and others) show their names instead of codes.

Fixed

• News: stock-tip sites and analyst ratings ("Outperform Rating Reaffirmed") no longer appear in the news stream, matching the rules the Radar already uses. Entertainment headlines about series and viewers are no longer filed under a company.
• Military: the "Ongoing conflicts" table was wider than its panel at 1440 px; conflict names and countries now wrap.
• The flag request for the Channel Islands no longer fails on every load.

24 September 202616:07auslieferung-20260924-1607

Companies & Trade Chain review: clickable cents, sticky headers fixed, lithium producers and industry assignment corrected, listed entries preferred, mixed-data notes

Added

• Companies, industry map: the cents per raw material in an industry's panel turn gold on hover, and a click shows their history since 1997 (BEA).
• Trade Chain: for gold, silver, platinum, lithium, rare earths, uranium and resources without their own trade code, a note now says that the US input-output tables only record them together with the other raw materials of their industry. The dependent industries and companies shown belong to that whole industry.

Improved

• Companies: a single industry chosen in the search bar now opens its panel and its "Show …" button, just like several industries do.
• Companies: in an industry's company table the header keeps the panel's grey, and long names stay on one line next to their flag.
• Trade Chain: "Only major economies & companies" is renamed, has no frame and sits next to "Crosshair". Its hover text is now one short line.
• Trade Chain: the question-mark circles show a pointing hand instead of a question-mark cursor.
• Cents are always shown with one decimal (2.0¢ next to 0.8¢).
• Every history window closes with Escape.
• Methodology: the page now says which of several entries stands for a company.

Fixed

• Tables with "Show all": while scrolling, the rows slid over the sticky header row. The unfold animation had also caught the header.
• Companies: the "Companies per industry" table was wider than its panel at 1440 px, which cut off the largest company.
• Trade Chain, lithium: Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron and TotalEnergies were listed as lithium producers because Wikidata lists "lithium grease" among their products. Words for follow-on products (grease, lithium-ion, battery, wire …) no longer count. Arcadium Lithium now appears as a producer.
• Industry assignment: EnBW (via "electric vehicle charging network") and Circle K Latvia (via "automotive fuel") were counted as automotive. Xiaomi was also counted as automotive when its entries were tied. On a tie, the industry the company names first now wins.
• Duplicates: the brand "Volkswagen" displaced the listed Volkswagen Group, whose page then read "Not listed". In the same year the listed entry now takes precedence.
• Companies: opening the tab before the world map had loaded showed an error panel for a moment. It now shows "Loading…".

24 September 202615:34auslieferung-20260924-1534

Last three checks done: report PDF names all filters, attachments are deleted with their message, DMs read while open, news fits phone width

Improved

• Journal, report PDF: the header now lists every filter of the report (weekday, entry time, executed or planned, stopped, stop ticks, methods, tags), not just the account and symbol, so a printed report can still be told apart later.

Fixed

• Community: deleting a message or a direct message removed only the message. The attached file stayed on the server and could still be opened through its link. It is now deleted too, as soon as no other message (for example a forwarded copy) points to it.
• Direct messages: a message that arrived while the conversation was open stayed unread and kept the counter up. It is now marked as read, including when you come back to the tab.
• News: on a phone the page was wider than the screen and could be pushed sideways. It now fits the width.

24 September 202615:13auslieferung-20260924-1513

Journal and statement import tested with real data: fields keep their input, weekday and date format work, duplicates skipped, import formats and messages corrected and bilingual

Improved

• Journal: clicking the tab you are already on (for example Live Accounts) takes you back to its top level.
• Journal dashboard: the line under Average R now says that it is the average win.

Fixed

• Journal: leaving a trade field while clicking or tabbing into the next rebuilt the whole sheet. The text typed into the next field was lost, so every second field needed two clicks. Figures now only refresh the Calculated column. Date and symbol redraw after the focus has moved, and the cursor stays in the new field. The same applies to the settings.
• Journal: "Day of week" was always empty, the weekday filter in reports found nothing, and dates ignored the chosen date format. A second function with the same name had overwritten the date parser.
• Journal, CSV import: importing the same file twice booked every trade twice. Trades already in the account are now marked "already there" in the preview and skipped.
• Journal, CSV import: labels and their column pickers ended up on different rows. The layout now uses fixed pairs.
• Portfolio, dividends: the dividend growth rate took its first year from all portfolios even when only one was selected (another function overwritten by a namesake).
• Portfolio import: Interactive Brokers was advertised as CSV, HTM or PDF, although only the CSV is read. The notes, the file picker and the error messages now say so.
• Portfolio import: error messages and warnings appeared in German on the English page, and some only as an internal code. Both languages are now provided.
• Portfolio import: a fee taken from a statement showed a dash instead of its amount in the preview, and was missing from the cash flows of the internal rate of return.
• Portfolio: a portfolio whose positions have no price showed 0.00 in the portfolio list. It now shows a dash.

24 September 202614:51auslieferung-20260924-1451

Community tested with two accounts: edits and deletions arrive, friend requests visible, own reactions and mentions marked, send failures explained

Added

• Community, Friends: incoming friend requests appear at the top with Accept and Decline, and sent requests below with Cancel. The Friends entry shows how many are waiting. Until now a request was only visible by chance, in the sender's profile.
• Community: when a message cannot be sent, a short note appears above the input field. Before, the text simply stayed in the field. A block is not revealed.

Fixed

• Community: edited and deleted messages reached the other members only after reloading the page. Quotes of an edited message now update too.
• Community: your own reactions were never marked as yours, and messages mentioning you were never highlighted. Both compared against the email address, although the server has sent the account ID since 2 September.
• Community: the Friends view did not refresh on its own, so a new request only showed up after switching views.

24 September 202614:33auslieferung-20260924-1433

Companies: several industries in the industry map, type switches for the mind map; Trade Chain: only major economies & major companies, country dependence history

Added

• Trade Chain: a button next to the country search, "Only major economies & major companies", for both Panels and Tree. When it is on, every map, table and list, the tree, the trading partners, the country search and "Countries that depend on it" show only the major economies. Companies appear only if headquartered there. Countries already picked come back when it is switched off.
• Companies, By industry: with several industries picked in the search bar, a "Show …" button above the mind map switches to each further industry. Their panels stand one below the other, and all their rows in "Companies per industry" are gold.
• Trade Chain, "Countries that depend on it": the figures are gold and open their history, calculated the same way for every year.

Improved

• Companies, By industry: Goods, Networks, Trade & transport, Services and Public sector can be switched on and off in the mind map as well, by clicking their name or dot in either legend. They hide the branches and the table rows together.
• Companies, By raw material: the coloured dot of the main group stands before every industry again.

Fixed

• Trade Chain: the explanations behind the circled question marks were set in capital letters.

24 September 202614:15auslieferung-20260924-1415

Portfolio figures corrected (fees counted once, single year, IRR), profile and watchlist fixes, company profiles rebuilt in minutes with CEOs and management back

Improved

• Company profiles are rebuilt in minutes instead of over four hours. Base data, CEOs, tickers, LEI, management and chair now come from the Wikidata API (50 companies per request) instead of slow SPARQL bundles.
• Portfolio: stock prices, search and company profiles now name EODHD with DESK Pro as their source. The old Finnhub notes are gone.
• Settings: the tile that leads to the sources page is now called "Sources & legal". It used to promise the legal notice and then opened the list of data sources. The page itself carries the same name.
• Transaction dialog: "Purchase price" is now "Price per unit", which also fits sales and dividends.

Fixed

• Portfolio performance: fees and taxes were counted twice. The buying fee sits in the cost basis, the selling fee in the proceeds and the withholding tax in the dividend, and all of them were then deducted again as transaction costs and taxes. Price gain, realised gain and dividends now show before costs, costs appear once below, and the rows add up to the total return.
• Portfolio, single year: when a portfolio starts within the selected year, the move from the purchase price to the first daily close was missing, and the time-weighted return counted the first day twice (for example −31 % instead of +39 %). Today's point of the daily series now uses the live price, so "2026" and "Alltime" show the same price gain.
• Portfolio: the internal rate of return treated positions without a price as a total loss. It now counts only what can be valued, like the gain does. The single-year percentage uses the same basis as the all-time view.
• Portfolio dialog: the total now includes fees and taxes (added on a buy, deducted on a sell, dividend or interest).
• Portfolio: the minute-by-minute price refresh redrew the page while the transaction dialog was open. Focus jumped out of the field and a click on "Add transaction" could miss. It now waits until the dialog is closed.
• Portfolio: net worth showed a large "0.00" when no position had a price. It now shows a dash, with the cost basis in the note below.
• Portfolio: a dividend no longer gets the share price suggested as its amount per share.
• Portfolio: Escape closes the position detail and the transaction dialog.
• Watchlist: column headings sat about 45 px to the right of their values. "1 values" now reads "1 value".
• Profile: followers, following and posts always showed 0, and their lists stayed empty. The page still sent the email address where the server expects the account ID.
• Company profiles: CEOs are back. The Wikidata rule from 23 September returned no CEO at all. Management and chair (shown when no CEO is listed) had returned nothing since then either.

24 September 202612:48auslieferung-20260924-1248

Guide refresh: 33 new brokers, prop firms and platforms, current Trustpilot figures, dead links fixed; dictionary English cleanup; world map freeze fixed; Taiwan flag

Added

• Broker & Banks, Prop Firms and Platforms: 33 more reputable providers, each with rating, short description and links (website, pricing, review source) — among them Charles Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Webull, Trading 212, Scalable Capital, DEGIRO, flatex, comdirect, ING, IG, Pepperstone, OANDA, CMC Markets, IC Markets, eToro, XTB, Swissquote, Optimus Futures, Ironbeam, Bitpanda, Bitvavo, Bitstamp, Gemini, Crypto.com, Earn2Trade, TradeDay, FundingPips, ProRealTime, eSignal, Koyfin and DAS Trader Pro
• Brokers are now grouped by type: Futures, Forex / CFD / Multi-Asset, Stocks, Crypto, then banks

Improved

• All Trustpilot figures in the guide descriptions refreshed to 24 September 2026, and the stars follow the rounded score again
• Four prop firms whose Trustpilot profile is now flagged for a guideline breach (E8 Markets, Funded Trading Plus, Phidias, Crypto Fund Trader) carry a clear warning and two stars, like For Traders
• Dictionary: about 3,100 short English texts rewritten in plain English (they had German comma placement), four duplicate entries merged
• German translations for every link label on the broker and platform cards

Fixed

• Dead links: the Chase savings page, the TradeStation and TC2000 app pages; Trade Republic and Binance now open the German App Store, where the apps are listed
• World map: pressing the year play button froze the page for about 20 seconds — the country lookup is now an index instead of a list search
• Taiwan had no flag; region and income-group rows no longer request flags that cannot exist
• Dictionary: a garbled aside in the German ATR example removed

24 September 202610:34auslieferung-20260924-1034

Right of withdrawal and cancellation page, Taiwan as a country, six new cross-checks, portfolio return fix, dictionary without tax law

Added

• Right of withdrawal: a page with the withdrawal notice for consumers and the model withdrawal form.
• "Cancel contracts here": a subscription can be cancelled at any time without logging in — with a confirmation page and a confirmation email. Linked in every footer and under Sources & legal in DESK.
• Checkout: the consent to an early start, the link to the right of withdrawal and the button "Order with obligation to pay" (locked until payments go live).
• Taiwan is now a country in its own right in every table, map, ranking and on its own country page — the same country list as the world figures.

Improved

• Monthly inflation and core inflation are labelled "seasonally adjusted" — they can differ from the unadjusted headline rate in the calendar by a few tenths.
• Methodology: the nightly cross-check, the portfolio return formulas and the country list with Taiwan.

Fixed

• Company map: after the company profiles are rebuilt, the revenue on the map is aligned within the hour (Gazprom, Rosneft and Lukoil showed slightly different figures on the map and on the company page).
• Country pages: conflict figures (UCDP) now update together with their charts (Papua New Guinea showed 33 deaths on the page and 31 in the chart).
• DESK Radar: world export shares and market concentration only over countries, as in the Trade Chain — small territories such as Niue no longer count.
• Portfolio: the time-weighted return counted a sale with a gain as a loss (it used the cost basis instead of the proceeds as the money flow).
• Sector revenue history: only whole years (no trailing-twelve-month values).
• Dictionary: nine terms that are tax law themselves were removed and five texts no longer name specific tax rules; three duplicate terms were merged.

24 September 202609:59auslieferung-20260924-0959

Companies tab multi-select and filters, industry map layout, Trade Chain dependence ranking, flow card series, foreign-born share, employees, world rule with Taiwan, start page figures

Added

• Companies tab: several industries and several raw materials can now be selected at once, like countries and companies.
• Trade Chain, "More on …": a new list "Countries that depend on it", and a ⇄ button that turns every list round to show the last ten.
• Refugee flow map: the country table shows the foreign-born share of the population (UN DESA via the World Bank) next to the balance, with its year and its history.
• Company pages: the approximate number of employees in the company profile, with its year.
• Refugee, money and trade flow maps: the figures in the info card of a flow (people, value, share, rank, the other way round, net, and each good) open their line chart.

Improved

• Trade Chain: "Companies / Industries / Countries that depend on it" are now ranked by real dependence, not by revenue — industries by what they need per dollar of output, countries by net imports as a share of all their imports, companies by their industry's need times how much their home country has to import. A circled question mark at each title explains the measure.
• Companies tab: a selected country, industry or raw material now narrows all three tiles (by industry, by raw material, by country) and the lists in the search fields.
• Companies tab: an industry picked in the search bar is also selected in the industry map.
• Industry map: the raw materials of each industry are spread around it — above, beside and below — in a larger font.
• Industry map: the five kinds (Goods, Networks …) in the "Companies per industry" table switch on and off with a click.
• Company map: the gold dot of a selected company shows a ring and its name on hover and opens the company page on click; the legend reads "Selected companies" when there are several.
• "Clear all" buttons in the Macro Terminal turn red on hover.

Fixed

• World figures: Taiwan now counts towards the world everywhere (world sums, averages, trend lists, the Trade Chain and the production tab). North Korea was missing from the indicators DESK calculates itself (price level, patents per million and others).
• World production index (production tab): the same index as in the Trade Chain — each good as a percentage of 2015, median across goods. Before, each good was measured against its own long-run average, so every new year shifted the whole past.
• World share of a country: now a single year — the country's latest year in which nearly all countries reported — and that year is shown next to the share.
• One company, counted once: sector rankings, the company map, company counts and revenue sums per country, supply chains, peers and crisis lists no longer count a company twice when it also appears as a subsidiary or under a second listing.
• Change tiles compare with the last value before the shown period, not with the one before the latest data point.
• Company events from filings: a fiscal year ending in June now counts as that year, as in the SEC data.
• Military sites: a site that is only listed under an ended type (for example Second World War airfields) is no longer shown; operators who ran a site twice (Lakenheath, US Air Force) are shown again.
• Industry map: after closing an industry's list, its name turns white again.
• Start page: the example figures now match their sources (World Bank, USGS, UCDP, IMF), and the counts are current: 900+ indicators, 9,400+ dictionary terms, 4,700+ companies.

23 September 202622:21auslieferung-20260923-2221

Formula logic check and cross-check: net food imports, one exchange-rate basis for company figures, nightly cross-check with Telegram report

Added

• Net food imports (% of GDP): food imports minus food exports against GDP, per year — replaces the food share of merchandise imports in the self-sufficiency index and the country score; new World Bank series merchandise imports, merchandise exports and food exports
• Nightly cross-check on the server (4:30): the same figure is compared wherever it appears — overview, country page, charts, company map, indices, world values, DESK Radar — and differences are reported by Telegram
• Methodology: the indicators DESK calculates itself (price level, per-head figures, IMF credit and net food imports against GDP, crime and self-sufficiency index) with their formulas

Improved

• Company figures: every source is converted at the rate of its own year (ESEF, OpenDART, EDINET and German reports used today's rate) — one company's series no longer mixes two rate bases
• Trade Chain: "Supplier countries under strain" says what DESK Radar counts (escalating conflict, new sanctions in the last month, violence in a country at war)

Fixed

• Country pages: oil production and patents per head had empty charts (the combined request left computed indicators out)
• Company map and ranking: companies with a fiscal year ending January to May could show a different revenue year than the company page
• Computed indicators were kept from an old cache after new series arrived
• Methodology: the strain definitions of the Radar and the Trade Chain, the direction in the chain score and the chapter of food imports now match the calculation

23 September 202621:34auslieferung-20260923-2134

Companies tab UI points, source re-check with Opus 5.5: SEC fiscal-year alignment, ESEF/IFRS/EDINET years, politics, IMF regions in index, military, rivers, leadership, 8-K reading

Added

• Companies: industries for companies without a recognised industry entry, from their BEA industry code — the industry list now adds up to all 4,899 companies ("Not classified" for the rest); new industry Education
• Companies: 41 more headquarters on the map (city from GLEIF or the SEC business address, coordinates from DESK's city tables)
• Companies map: "Show all" when a selection row does not fit on one line; "Clear all" from the first selection
• By industry: in an opened branch every industry is a bubble with branches to the raw materials it depends on most
• By country: without a selected country all companies worldwide; sectors switch on and off like a legend; city names open the country page and flash the headquarters

Improved

• Companies map: smaller selection chips with the same rounding as the indicator map, a grey line between search bars and selection
• Companies map: the gold hover ring zooms with the map, headquarters dots shrink less when zoomed in
• By industry: top 10 companies as a table with "Show all"; By raw material without its own dropdown (the search bar above sets it)
• Trade Chain: "World production · all resources" without the index note in the title; strained-supplier ranking shows the resource symbol whenever a rank holds one resource

Fixed

• FedEx and 7 other companies stood in the wrong headquarters country (FedEx: "Memphis, Canada")
• Fiscal years not ending in December: Wikidata, ESEF and SEC IFRS years aligned to the SEC frame years (no repeated year for Dell, Infosys, Bath & Body Works, Seagate); a Wikidata value equal to a filed value of another year is dropped (Jakks Pacific)
• Trailing twelve months ending with a fourth quarter no longer overwrite the fiscal year of the same label (Cardinal Health 2025)
• SEC: an annual frame taken from a 10-Q is replaced by the annual statement value (Comfort Systems 2025 operating income 1.31 bn $ instead of 209 m $); missing values are looked up under the next tag (NOV net income after 2020)
• ESEF: half-year reports with twelve-month figures are no longer taken for annual reports (DFDS); ESEF years added per year instead of replacing the SEC IFRS series (BP 2015–2022)
• Factbook texts with HTML entities, UCDP candidate events of finished years counted twice, UNHCR totals without unknown origin
• Food search: USDA Foundation foods without energy field 1008 use the Atwater energy (fresh apples were missing)
• Coterra/Cabot net income before 2017 read from the common-stockholders tag (2016 was missing); Toyota and other Japanese filers no longer show one fiscal year twice (EDINET and SEC IFRS on the same year label)
• US regional price levels: "Other services" showed BEA line 4 (utilities) — now line 5 (other services)
• City table: time zones for 6,157 cities from the full Natural Earth file; Xetra/Frankfurt symbols chosen the same way on every build (79 companies had alternating symbols)
• Politics: only the current office holders — Turkey listed six heads of government since 1980, San Marino six captains regent; parties only from current membership (Erdoğan stood with the Welfare Party of the 1990s)
• Self-sufficiency index: 23 IMF regions ("Sub-Saharan Africa", "Western Hemisphere" …) counted as countries in the current-account ranking and shifted every percentile — now 139/139 countries recompute exactly
• Military sites: an operator counted as former as soon as one of its statements had an end date (RAF Lakenheath stood without the US Air Force); 89 sites whose military use has ended (Fort Dodge, Second World War airfields) are gone
• Rivers: lengths, discharge and basins as entered in Wikidata — the query service rounded converted values to their uncertainty (South Saskatchewan 1,000 instead of 1,004 km)
• Company leadership: a second term no longer drops the person (Sam Altman at OpenAI, Håkan Samuelsson at Volvo Cars); management/chair as a stand-in only while no CEO is known, refreshed on every run; subsidiaries bought back after a sale stay on the map
• DESK Radar (SEC 8-K): terminated contracts that only refer to another item are judged by that item — a note redemption (Granite), an executive change (Conduent) and a rights plan (Sturm Ruger) no longer count as a strain; a business sale is a business agreement (James Hardie), receivable purchase agreements are financing (SAIC)

23 September 202616:17auslieferung-20260923-1617

Companies tab chips and search bars, map dots, industry map raw materials, Trade Chain all-resources index

Improved

• Companies: selections appear as grey chips like on the indicator map, one row per search bar (Countries, Industry, Raw material, Companies). Country chips turn gold on hover and open the country page; one "Clear all" button empties all four bars.
• Companies: the active search bar has a gold border, its list ends flush with the bar, the country list no longer shows counts, and the industry and raw-material lists start with "All industries" and "All raw materials". The company search is now the fourth bar, and the introductory sentence is gone.
• Companies map: headquarter dots get smaller as you zoom in, so dense areas like Germany stay clickable. The gold hover ring now surrounds the dot, and the tooltip shows only the name.
• Companies, By country: each sector has a coloured dot, in the summary line and in the table.
• Industry map: no separate raw-material dropdown any more (the raw-material bar above the map drives it). Each branch and industry shows the two raw materials it depends on most, with symbol and cents. The industry panel title no longer carries the company count. "See all" is now "Show all".
• Trade Chain, All resources: world production is shown for all resources together as a median index (2015 = 100), not only for crude oil.
• Trade Chain, More on …: industries carry their colour dot; with All resources their cents are clickable with a history; the most concentrated resources show their symbol, and the resources with the most strained suppliers show it where one country is listed.

23 September 202615:56auslieferung-20260923-1556

Source check 1: city matching, OECD quarterly GDP, house prices, IMTS codes, calendar gaps

Improved

• Total exports and imports now go back to 1948 (previously 1960), as far as the IMF goes.
• OECD history is refreshed every 90 days, so later revisions reach older years.

Fixed

• US city price levels: cities that share a name now get their own metro area. Portland (Oregon) showed the price level of Portland, Maine, and Rochester (New York) that of Rochester, Minnesota; 16 US cities were matched to a metro area in another state.
• European city data: Palma (Mallorca) showed the figures of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Athens, Lisbon, Naples, Brussels and Nicosia now have their rents, prices and crime figures (a broken name-matching rule had hidden them). 31 more US cities, such as Los Angeles, Dallas and Las Vegas, now find their metro area.
• Quarterly GDP growth: the official OECD rate now applies to all OECD countries again (53 instead of 7 country groups). The OECD fetch kept failing for lack of a language header, and a World Bank run then replaced the OECD series.
• OECD house price index: the latest quarters were missing (France showed 2025 Q2 instead of 2026 Q2), because the OECD's JSON output drops observations. DESK now reads the CSV output.
• Trade: Kosovo and Palestine were missing entirely because the IMF uses different codes for them. Countries that no longer exist (Soviet Union, East Germany, Yugoslavia …) and Gibraltar now show their name in partner lists instead of a bare code.
• Economic calendar: after a month that was never published (October 2025, US government shutdown), a change over two months was shown as "m/m". Now there is no value, as at the source.
• Everyday prices: Iceland was dropped from household electricity because monthly US data counted as the latest reference against half-yearly Eurostat data. If a US source fails, its last values stay (bread and beef lost the US).
• Commodity outlook: the World Bank forecasts for barley and shrimp were discarded because their 2024 and 2025 prices are missing.

23 September 202613:59auslieferung-20260923-1359

Third data audit: World Bank row check, plus signs, empty charts, company revenue alignment, redenominated currencies

Improved

• Radar supply panel: the most dependent importers are searched among all importers, not only the ten largest buyers.

Fixed

• Syria and the Netherlands showed wrong governance values: the World Bank API delivers Taiwan's row under Syria's code and the Netherlands Antilles (2017) under the Netherlands'. Rows are now checked against the country; Syria's political stability is −2.37 (was +0.92), and the crime index and score follow.
• Percentages that are levels no longer carry a plus sign ("Electricity access 100.0%", not "+100.0%"); growth rates keep it.
• Oil and patents per person and the monthly temperature opened an empty chart; they now show their history.
• Average temperature is labelled as the mean of the last 12 months.
• Company map and rankings now take the company's current revenue every day instead of every 30 days (Gazprom showed $94B instead of $116B).
• Amounts in a currency that dropped zeros are converted with the old units (Syriatel 2025: $0.33B instead of $33B).
• The plausibility rules for company figures run until nothing more is rejected; seven outliers were left before (e.g. Saudi Aramco's market value in 2020).

23 September 202613:14auslieferung-20260923-1314

Radar: gold highlight for higher-impact news, supply panel beside the war cards

Added

• DESK Radar: higher-impact news glows gold and pulses. These are headlines that report an event (a pipeline, refinery, port or power plant going down or back up, or a ceasefire) and belong to the most-reported 2 % of stories. They stand first in the evidence lists and in the supply panel. Red stays reserved for major events.

Improved

• DESK Radar: the ongoing-war cards take half the width, and "Supply & infrastructure" fills the other half. It scrolls inside and can be enlarged with the zoom arrow, instead of stretching the tiles below.

23 September 202612:55auslieferung-20260923-1255

Supply & infrastructure in DESK Radar, news deduplication, companies search and map filters

Added

• DESK Radar: a "Supply & infrastructure" panel in the picture right now. Pipelines, refineries, ports and power plants: outages are marked under strain, restarts as easing, offers as announced. It shows how many sources report each event and which importers depend most on the country (CEPII BACI).
• Companies: four search bars (country, company, industry, raw material), each on its own row with a scroll list and emojis. Industry and raw material filter the headquarters on the map.
• Companies map: hover a headquarters for the company name with a gold ring; a click opens the company page.
• Industry map: a "Dependence on" picker shows for each industry how many cents of one raw material it needs per dollar of output.
• Trade-Chain: "More on …" now also lists the 10 companies and 10 industries that depend most on the resource.

Improved

• News: the same story from many sites appears once, with "+N more sources"; oil news about pipelines, refineries, Hormuz and fuel prices now counts as Oil.
• Trade-Chain: values in the exporter, importer, producer and company-country tables and in the concentration lists are gold and open their history.
• Companies: selected companies no longer carry a second gold frame; names are white and turn gold on hover; "See all" looks like "Show all" in the tree; table columns sit closer to the company column.
• Industry map: the title no longer opens a list; "Show all" sits under the companies.

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: with All resources and no country, the world production chart was shorter than the trade chart.

23 September 202612:19auslieferung-20260923-1219

Licensed sources only: DESK Pro ticker section, EODHD earnings, crypto news from GDELT, full preload

Added

• Ticker dropdown: a "DESK Pro" section at the bottom lists every quote the TradingView tape cannot show (ETFs, bonds, some indices and stocks). It needs a licensed data provider (EODHD) and switches itself on once the key is in place.
• Crypto Terminal: crypto news from the GDELT stream, with link, source and time.
• News page: a "Crypto" stream next to Companies, Countries, Commodities and Markets.

Improved

• Every view is preloaded in the background after start, now also the Macro world average, the Life & Spirit reference values, the Community chat and all country flags, so views open without waiting.
• Earnings calendar: now a DESK Pro panel on the EODHD earnings calendar, with fiscal year and quarter from SEC filings.
• Sources page: EODHD and GDELT list what they now supply.

Fixed

• The Crypto Terminal could show an empty card list instead of the terminal.
• The News stream no longer throws an error while it is still loading.

23 September 202611:18auslieferung-20260923-1118

Performance check: 304 revalidation, fewer and bundled requests

Improved

• Faster reloads: data the browser already has is now confirmed by the server with a short "unchanged" (304) instead of being sent again — on a reload of the macro terminal almost nothing is transferred any more (before: the full stock of data, about 6 MB packed).
• The radar answer is packed once per update instead of on every request; country pages answer from a cache until a figure changes (about ten times faster).
• The index quotes of the ticker come in one request instead of eight in a row.
• The server warms up the radar first after a restart, plus the everyday prices, the industry table and the calendar.
• The ticker pauses while the tab is in the background and catches up when you come back.

Fixed

• Country flags in the radar search.
• The world map, the money data and the portfolio were fetched twice when two parts of the page asked at the same time.
• Sources that the licence lock rejects are no longer asked again and again in the same session.

23 September 202610:53auslieferung-20260923-1053

Radar search, more line charts, companies tab and trade chain round

Added

• Search in DESK Radar. A search bar at the top finds countries, resources and companies; picking one shows every radar tile that concerns it (with Explain and details), plus links to the country, company or resource pages.
• Companies tab: a country picker with its own search and scroll list (several countries at once, the same selection as the map); several companies can be selected at once; "See all" (gold) under the raw-material and country tables.
• Line charts behind more numbers: the values in the DESK Score table (standing, every chapter, companies part — each year from that year's data); the industry table (companies and share by founding year, raw-material cents over time, revenue of the largest company); strait mind maps (trade per route over the years, share of each vessel type per month); the trade-chain situation block (concentration, price trend, supplier countries under strain).
• Trade chain: "More on …" now also exists for single resources; the lists show flags, gold shares with their history, and the largest importers next to the largest exporters. Under "All resources", the expanded production lines name the largest companies of that resource headquartered in the country.
• Company profiles now also read "product or material produced" from Wikidata (P1056), so the trade chain finds more producers.

Improved

• The "Information only" note and the update time moved to the bottom of the radar.
• Companies tab: the search bar empties after a pick, the result list is wider, the legend only shows "Selected country/company" when there is one, the "Listed companies only" button in the industry table is gone (the one at the top does the same), and "Open country page" disappears while a company is selected.
• Trade chain: under "All resources" the situation block says why price and strain refer to crude oil (the resource with the largest world exports), instead of showing its internal id.

Fixed

• The gold outline of selected countries on the companies map had an uneven width.
• "Reset zoom" appeared after toggling "Listed companies only" without any zoom.

23 September 202609:53auslieferung-20260923-0953

Electricity prices for the Gulf (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain)

Added

• Electricity prices for the Gulf. Country pages and the country score now carry household and industrial electricity prices for the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, next to Europe and the US.
• UAE: the regulated block tariffs of all four utilities (DEWA, Abu Dhabi, SEWA, Etihad WE) from the UAE statistics office, averaged. Saudi Arabia: the tariff history per sector and block (KAPSARC). Bahrain: read from the utility's own tariff page on every run.
• Priced like Eurostat: the bill for 3,750 kWh a year (households, with VAT) and 1,250 MWh a year (industry, without VAT), divided by the amount; general tariff, not the subsidised one for citizens; meter fees and fuel surcharges are not included.
• A regulated tariff stays valid up to four years, because the statistics lag behind. The energy tile now shows the year next to any price that is not from this year (UAE 2022, Saudi Arabia 2023).
• Qatar, Kuwait and Oman: no tariff source that can be read automatically yet.

23 September 202609:23auslieferung-20260923-0923

Score against the last ten years, energy prices, companies part

Improved

• Country score measured against today: every figure is compared with the values of all countries in the ten years up to the reference year (today 2017–2026; in the score history each year against its own ten years), no longer with every year since 1980. Three per cent inflation is no longer flattered by the high-inflation years of the 1980s.
• Energy prices count in the score (resources): electricity and natural gas for households and for industry, lower is better. They exist for Europe and the United States only; elsewhere they do not count.
• The companies part now uses the same fixed yardstick: company revenue ÷ GDP against the values of all countries in the last ten years, instead of a place among today's countries.
• Security now weighs slightly more than labour (15 % and 14 %).

23 September 202609:05auslieferung-20260923-0905

Energy prices on country pages, Companies tab, one close button

Added

• Energy prices on the country pages (Resources): electricity and natural gas for households and industry, petrol, diesel and heating oil — end prices in euro for Europe (Eurostat, EU Weekly Oil Bulletin) and the United States (EIA), with a chart for each. New: electricity for industry (Eurostat nrg_pc_205, EIA industrial sector).
• Companies tab: several countries can be picked on the small map at once; the table then lists the companies of all of them. A legend under the map switches headquarters, the selected country and the selected company on and off.
• Companies tab: revenue and raw-material input values turn gold and open their chart (input: BEA history since 1997).

Improved

• Companies tab: the company column comes first; flags in front of every company name (tables, industry mindmap, lists); the search bar is shorter and its list ends with it; the crosshair stays over countries on the small map; the marker of the selected company is smaller; a selected company opens "By raw material" on the resource it depends on most, its row in gold.
• One close button everywhere: the X of info cards (straits, mindmap lists) and of the score card in the tree has no box and turns red on hover.
• Trade Chain: the four categories always in the order Metals & Minerals, Energy, Agriculture, Forestry.

Fixed

• Trade Chain: with "All resources" or a whole group, the totals (step 1 of the tree, production, export and import in the country panels) were not clickable; they now open their chart.

22 September 202620:46auslieferung-20260922-2046

Security chapter, every figure once, new score figures

Improved

• Country score, new chapter "Security (crime)" right after labour (14 %): homicide rate (double weight), prison population, unsentenced detainees. A chapter now counts from a combined figure weight of 2, so the homicide rate carries it alone where prison data are old (United Arab Emirates, China, Saudi Arabia).
• Every figure counts once: core inflation, quarter-on-quarter GDP, GDP per head in dollars, three further wealth measures, homicides by sex, the crime index (itself mostly the homicide rate), two of three democracy measures, two of three corruption measures, World Bank battle deaths (= UCDP), civilians killed (a subset of conflict deaths), new displacements, infrastructure (part of logistics), death rate and the self-sufficiency index (its parts count on their own) no longer count twice. Monthly and yearly values of the same figure (inflation, GDP growth, unemployment): the monthly one counts where it exists.
• Taxes weigh less: the seven tax rates together count as much as debt and budget balance together.
• New in the score: productivity level (Penn World Table, USA = 1, comparable between countries), industry share of GDP, 10-year government bond yield, import cover of reserves (the money chapter now counts with the financial system), oil production per head, food imports, patents per head.
• Population growth is neutral (good in some countries, a burden in others); the real interest rate stays out.
• New figures on the country pages: oil production per 1,000 people, patent applications per million people, productivity level (USA = 1).

22 September 202620:27auslieferung-20260922-2027

Chapter order, resources as wealth and self-sufficiency

Improved

• Country score, chapter weights in a new order: economy 30 %, labour 17 %, public finances 12 %, financial system 8 %, trade 8 %, resources 7 %, conflict 6 %, society 5 %, technology 4 %, politics 3 %.
• Resources now mean resource wealth and self-sufficiency: resource rents (oil, gas, coal, minerals, forest, % of GDP) count as good, energy imports as bad, electricity access as good. Before, the chapter measured the energy transition — CO2 per head counted as bad and the renewable shares as good, which penalised oil producers and put the poorest countries first (wood for cooking). CO2 and the renewable shares are now neutral in the score and stay on the country pages.

22 September 202620:20auslieferung-20260922-2020

Country score on a fixed yardstick, economy first

Improved

• Country score on a fixed yardstick: every figure is now measured against all values ever recorded for it — all countries, all years since 1980 (monthly series: all months) — as the share of those that are worse. Before, every figure was a rank among today's countries, so one country getting worse moved every country behind it. Now a country's score changes only when its own figures change, and a score from 2005 means the same as one today.
• The economy comes first: chapter weights economy 30 %, labour 15 %, public finances 12 %, financial system 8 %, trade 8 %, society 10 %, conflict 6 %, technology 5 %, politics 3 %, resources 3 %. Before, each chapter weighed by the square root of its number of indicators, and the economy made up only about 15 % of the standing.
• A country gets a score when it has figures in the economy, labour and public-finance chapters (like the core-figure rule for companies). The former pull towards 50 for countries with few indicators is gone: with the fixed yardstick it lifted countries with data gaps (Yemen from 24 to 39), and without a rule micro-states with 14 to 22 figures stood at the top. 176 countries have a score; 41, mostly micro-states plus Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and North Korea, show "too few figures".

Fixed

• Terms of trade no longer count in the score: an index with its own base of 100 in every country, not comparable between countries.

22 September 202620:05auslieferung-20260922-2005

Development out of the country score

Improved

• Country score: the five-year change no longer counts. What matters is where a country stands now; a decline already shows in today's figures (lower growth, higher unemployment, weaker public finances), and counting it again lifted countries coming from far below. The score is now 0.6875 × rank of level + 0.1875 × companies + 0.125 × reports (the ratio 55 : 15 : 10). The score history uses, for every year, the figures reported up to that year. Default weights in Settings updated.

22 September 202619:49auslieferung-20260922-1949

Major economies filter the score

Fixed

• DESK Score, "only major economies": the switch now filters the ranking instead of recalculating the score among the 64 major economies. Before, every indicator was re-ranked within that group, and because the parts shift differently, two countries could swap places (United Arab Emirates 4th and Norway 13th among all countries, but Norway ahead with the switch on). Now the scores are always measured against all countries; the switch shows the same scores and only renumbers the places. The same applies to the score history.

22 September 202619:35auslieferung-20260922-1935

Conflicts in proportion

Fixed

• DESK Radar and score: conflict reports are now put in proportion. Besides how surprising a rise is for the country itself, their size counts: the rank of the annualised deaths among all countries with conflict deaths in the last complete year. The score weighs a conflict report with that severity, and the Radar sorts conflicts by ln(1 + surprise) × severity. Before, a few deaths after years without any (the United Arab Emirates: 18 a year, next to a war) weighed like the escalation of a major war and stood above Nigeria with more than 10,000. The same severity orders commodities with strained supplier countries.

22 September 202619:26auslieferung-20260922-1926

Company weight, all reports, moat seam

Fixed

• Country score: the companies part now counts with a weight that grows with the number of companies (0.15 × min(1, n ÷ 10), none below three), instead of pulling its value towards 50. Before, three to nine companies had their value dragged to the middle while fewer than three dropped out entirely, so a country with a few good companies could stand worse than one with none. This replaces the interim rule of the previous delivery (fewer than three companies = 50), which would have brought back the "gift" to countries with little data that the score had removed on 18 September.
• DESK score: every Radar report now counts, not only the ones the page shows. The number shown per type (10 conflicts, 8 sanctions, 12 rate moves ...) is a display limit; the eleventh country with rising conflict or the thirteenth rate move had no effect, and the weight by rank depended on how many were shown.
• Moats list: profit series now joined with the same seam check as the score (it was only applied to revenue).

22 September 202619:14auslieferung-20260922-1914

Score double counting, few companies, UN median age

Improved

• Median age is now the figure the UN publishes (World Population Prospects, MedianAgePop) instead of an estimate from the World Bank's five-year bands (Germany 2025: 45.5 instead of 46.5). The bands are used only where the UN gives no figure. Methodology and sources updated.

Fixed

• Country score: a commodity under pressure no longer counts again against its strained supplier countries. Those countries are strained because of their own conflict, violence or sanctions report, which already counts once; through every commodity they export, the same event counted again (the United Arab Emirates carried their one 2026 conflict additionally through crude oil, limestone, sulphur, natural gas and chrome ore). The fixed factor 4 on the export share is gone with it.
• Country score: fewer than three known companies now count as 50 in the companies part, like missing reports. Before, the part was dropped and the rest scaled up, so a country with no companies stood better than one with a few average ones. Same rule in the score history.

22 September 202618:57auslieferung-20260922-1857

Score history, conflict years, strained share

Fixed

• Country score: the 5-year change and the score history now use every indicator with a yearly series (democracy, conflict deaths, working hours, taxes and all other figures from their own files), the same indicators as today's level. Before, the change and the whole history used only the World Bank / IMF series, so the history ranked a different selection than today's score.
• Country score: one age limit for every value (at most 4 years behind the newest year, as the methodology says). Values from yearly series and the score history dropped out after 3 years, values from tables after 4.
• Conflict figures (deaths, civilian deaths, number of conflicts) now count the last complete year on country pages, in the score, in the World chart and on company pages, like the conflict map already did. Before, the running year with eight months stood as the latest value (Ukraine 2026: 57,335 next to 90,345 for 2025), and in the World chart a year with fewer conflicts ended the series early. The running year stays in the Radar, projected to twelve months.
• Trade Chain: the share of world exports from strained supplier countries and their number are now the Radar's figures (all strained countries). Before, the page added up only the up to twelve countries in the list.

22 September 202618:38auslieferung-20260922-1838

One rule for world figures

Improved

• The panel under the world map is now called "The countries shown, combined"; the World country page always uses every country, regardless of the "only major economies" box.
• The world panel loads much faster (about 1.6 s instead of 26 s for a full recalculation).
• Methodology: new section "World and the countries shown, combined".

Fixed

• World figures now use one rule everywhere: the World chart, the World country page and the panel under the world map all take one year for every country (the latest in which at least 90 % as many countries reported as in the five years before), sum quantities, show index values as the median country and average everything else. Before, the panel averaged each country's latest value from different years (inflation 7.0 % next to 3.0 % in the chart).
• Oil production and consumption, monthly exports, imports and reserves, drug seizures and cultivation areas are now summed across countries instead of averaged.

22 September 202618:15auslieferung-20260922-1815

One calculation for company figures, same-year shares

Improved

• Methodology describes the shared calculation and the one-year rule for shares

Fixed

• Company figures from one calculation: growth, net margin, EBIT margin and equity ratio are computed once (DESK score) and shown unchanged on the company page and in the Radar, with the period they refer to. Before, the company page and the Radar each computed their own: a different growth window (a 3-year figure next to the score's 3–5-year one, and in "Outlook" a 3-year own growth compared with a sector median from the 3–5-year window), the margin only when revenue and profit fell in the same latest year (132 companies showed "—" although the score had one) and no 100 % limit
• Company page for SEC filers: now the same checked series as score, map and Radar. Before, it read a separate SEC path without the checks — Hormel's revenue ended in 2017 although reported to 2025, balances came from the quarter nearest to 31 December, and companies with a fiscal year to March were labelled one year earlier than in the score (Toyota "2024" = year to March 2025); IFRS filers no longer mix dollar and yen figures
• Trade Chain: concentration and shares use all countries of the latest year only, like the Radar. Before, every country's latest value counted, however old — the share of the three largest mercury exporters stood at 48.8 % instead of 68.3 %; the list of the most concentrated commodities needs at least five countries, as in the Radar
• Margin charts and the financial table use the score's limit (at most 100 %); the Radar margin series used ±200 %
• Earnings per share (trailing twelve months) on the company page counts the quarters after the actual fiscal year end, like the server; before, always the calendar quarters of the next year (Apple's October–December quarter was missing)

22 September 202617:40auslieferung-20260922-1740

Place names decoding fix

Fixed

• Place names (GeoNames): 125 of 5.2 million names were garbled ("Khối M��ời Một" for "Khối Mười Một", mostly in India, Iran, Vietnam, Yemen) because the 400 MB file was decoded piece by piece and a character spanning two pieces fell apart. It is now decoded as one stream; all places rebuilt, 0 garbled names left. The FAO build had the same pattern and is fixed too

22 September 202617:12auslieferung-20260922-1712

Airport placeholders removed, ILO refresh

Fixed

• Airports: two placeholder records of the source are left out — "(Duplicate)YEG" drew Edmonton International twice, and "YEG" (no code) sat 500 km away in Saskatchewan

22 September 202617:01auslieferung-20260922-1701

EU house prices EU27, FAO licence note

Fixed

• EU house prices: the European Union line now uses Eurostat's EU27_2020 (the same 27 countries in every year), matching what "European Union" means everywhere else in DESK. Before, it read Eurostat's "EU" series in changing composition, so 2006 showed the EU25 (7.5 % instead of 8.6 % in Q1 2006)
• FAO data: the source note named the old licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; FAOSTAT is licensed CC BY 4.0 under FAO's open data policy, as the sources page already says

22 September 202616:34auslieferung-20260922-1634

ESEF annual reports only

Fixed

• European company figures (ESEF): only annual reports count. Danish companies also file their half-year reports as ESEF, and the newest report was taken as it came, so the balance at 30 June 2026 stood in the series as the year 2026 (Maersk, Novo Nordisk, DSV, Ørsted, Vestas, Carlsberg, Pandora, Genmab and others, 16 companies). Balance values are now taken only at a fiscal year end, and a report counts as annual by its content, not by the period listed on filings.xbrl.org (which lists the 2025 annual reports of Carrefour and Hermès under 31 Dec 2026)
• A 15-month transition period after a change of fiscal year (Mobico) is not counted as a year

22 September 202615:25auslieferung-20260922-1525

SEC balance sheets at fiscal year end

Fixed

• US company balance sheets (total assets, equity, liabilities) now carry the balance at the end of the fiscal year, the same date as the year's revenue. Before, SEC frames returned the balance nearest to 31 December, which for the 194 of 1,010 companies whose fiscal year does not end in December or January (Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Hormel ...) was a quarterly balance up to three months after the annual report; this also fed equity ratios in the DESK score. 5,981 balance values moved to the fiscal year end; where the SEC has no balance at that date, the year is left out

22 September 202614:53auslieferung-20260922-1453

Exchange-rate gaps, CPI y/y, study sources

Added

• Sources page: the two further studies behind the figures on the Spirit page (Barber, Lee, Liu & Odean, "Do Day Traders Rationally Learn About Their Ability?"; Barber & Odean, "Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth")

Fixed

• Exchange rates: a gap in the ECB series is now only bridged over holidays (up to 7 days). Before, every gap was filled with the last rate, so the rouble stood at its March 2022 rate and the Argentine peso, Algerian dinar, Moroccan dirham and Taiwan dollar at their October 2020 rates; for those days the portfolio and everyday prices now use today's rate and say so
• Exchange rates: after joining the euro, the Lithuanian litas, Croatian kuna and Bulgarian lev use the irrevocably fixed conversion rate instead of the last market rate
• Economic calendar: US CPI y/y is computed from the non-seasonally adjusted index, as the BLS publishes it (July 2026 showed 3.3 % instead of 3.4 %)

22 September 202614:36auslieferung-20260922-1436

FOMC minutes dates from the Fed

Fixed

• Economic calendar: FOMC minutes now carry the release date the Fed publishes (its monthly calendar for upcoming minutes, the meeting page for past ones) instead of always decision day + 21 days, which was wrong around Thanksgiving and Christmas (for example 30 Dec 2025, not 31 Dec)

22 September 202614:10auslieferung-20260922-1410

Japanese company financials from EDINET

Added

• Japanese company financials from EDINET, the disclosure system of Japan's Financial Services Agency: revenue, operating profit, net profit, total assets and equity for 177 Japanese companies from 2016 to the latest fiscal year, on company pages, maps, country pages, the Radar and in the DESK score (before: 10 of 293 Japanese companies had figures from 2024 on, now 178)
• Sources page: EDINET (Public Data License 1.0); methodology lists EDINET among the mandatory filings

Improved

• Where the SEC already carries a company (Toyota, Sony), EDINET only fills the missing years, such as fiscal 2026, and the company page keeps naming SEC EDGAR

22 September 202611:47auslieferung-20260922-1147

Korean figures cross-checked and consolidated, country company lists aligned, counted-under hint

Added

• Company page: groups and duplicate entries say under which company their figures and DESK score are counted ("Counted under Samsung Electronics")

Fixed

• Korean company figures: consolidated and separate statements are no longer mixed in one series (Hankook & Company showed 87 against 825 billion won); early revenue lines without a standard XBRL code (KT, Kakao) are read by their line name
• Korean companies matched by name: "&" in the OpenDART directory (KT&G, Samsung C&T) and several companies of the same name (the listed one with a current report wins); corporate groups are never matched by name
• Country pages, largest companies: the list now uses the same revenue as the map, the company page and the DESK score, the headquarters country check and the duplicate rule — no more Prologis and Elsevier under South Korea, no Samsung Group next to Samsung Electronics, and every company DESK carries for the country is listed

22 September 202611:02auslieferung-20260922-1102

Korean company financials from OpenDART

Added

• Korean companies: annual financial statements from OpenDART, the disclosure system of Korea's Financial Supervisory Service — revenue, operating profit, net profit attributable to owners, total assets and equity for 63 companies, 2014 to 2025, on company pages, in rankings and in the DESK score

Improved

• Company page chart names the mandatory source it draws on (OpenDART, ESEF, annual report) before Wikidata

22 September 202610:20auslieferung-20260922-1020

Calendar actuals as published (FRED real-time), BEA figures instantly, full BACI history check

Added

• Economic calendar: GDP, core PCE, personal income and personal spending arrive the moment they are published, directly from the Bureau of Economic Analysis

Fixed

• Economic calendar: past actual figures now show the number as it was published that day — before, GDP was shifted by one release (on 30 July the calendar showed the revised Q1 figure instead of the first Q2 estimate) and monthly figures showed later revisions
• Economic calendar: for the second and third GDP estimate the previous value is now the earlier estimate of the same quarter

22 September 202610:08auslieferung-20260922-1008

144 traded resources everywhere, calendar figures the moment they appear, headquarters countries from GLEIF/SEC

Added

• 107 more traded resources from CEPII BACI (now 144): meat, dairy, fish, fruit, nuts, tea, cereals, oilseeds and oils, fibres, rubber, tobacco, fertilisers, lignite, coke, petroleum products, electricity, industrial minerals, ores, ferroalloys, scrap, special metals and more forestry goods — on the trade flow and resource maps, in all menus, the Trade Chain (with production where FAO/USGS report it), the resource trades table, DESK Radar and the news headlines per resource
• World Bank price trend for 18 of the new resources (tea, rubber, soybean oil and meal, urea, potash, phosphate rock and more)
• Economic calendar: Core PPI, Core Retail Sales, CPI y/y, Building Permits, Housing Starts, Trade Balance, FOMC press conference and minutes, crude oil inventories and natural gas storage (EIA schedule with holiday shifts)
• Economic calendar: published figures now arrive the moment they appear, straight from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, the Department of Labor and the EIA; FRED stays the fallback
• Headquarters country from GLEIF and SEC filings where Wikidata names none (37 companies)

Improved

• Trade partner data is stored per year and loaded on demand, so the server stays light with more than a hundred resources

Fixed

• Economic calendar: the page now switches to its fast refresh in the release minute even without a forecast
• Trade flow map and resource trades table: resource names in the page language

22 September 202609:40auslieferung-20260922-0940

Official US release schedules in the calendar, TradingView calendar removed, sign-up form, browser-checked fixes

Added

• Economic calendar: dates and times now come from the official release schedules of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau (public domain) — around 800 events through the end of the year instead of a few dozen, including housing starts, building permits, factory orders, construction spending, import prices, the employment cost index and the current account
• Sign-up form: "Accept all" button

Improved

• Sign-up form: "Already have an account? Sign in" sits at the top right

Fixed

• Economic calendar: weekly jobless claims were missing on days with a major release (for example CPI days)
• Sign-up form: the tick sat in the top-left corner of the checkbox instead of the centre
• All-companies table of an industry: the revenue line chart showed "no series"
• Trade Chain situation panel: the expandable section for "All" did not appear; resource names are now shown in the page language
• Resource trades table: the imports column header now reads "Imports"

22 September 202608:55auslieferung-20260922-0855

Data check round 6, GDELT headline matching, 17 interface points, ForexFactory removed

Improved

• Tree step 3: the DESK score opens directly as a large card on top, closed with an X
• Strait info cards (tree map and world maps) close with an X
• Companies tab: "Listed companies only" sits next to the title (white border when active); "Reset zoom" sits above the map; countries on the map can be clicked and selected; the zoom hint is gone
• Companies tab: rows belonging to the selected company are highlighted in gold, the company appears as a gold dot on the map
• All-companies table of an industry: revenue turns gold on hover and opens its line chart
• Resource trades table: new imports column (CEPII BACI), directly left of exports; goods a country only imports are listed too
• Companies world map with several countries selected: the menu groups companies by country, A–Z within each
• Trade Chain: country names in the situation panel open their country page; with an "All" selection an expandable section lists the largest exporters, the most concentrated resources and the resources with the most strained suppliers
• Trade Chain country table: the small resource count behind the four main categories is gone
• Methodology page: new section on the limits of the sources (USGS values before 2017 are partly the agency's own estimates), formulas for concentration, strained share and headline matching

Fixed

• DESK Radar headlines: a headline now only appears as evidence for violence, blockade or protest if the headline itself names the country and a matching word (GDELT tags whole articles, so talent shows and motorsport slipped in before)
• Commodity headlines: ambiguous words (Brent, gas prices, platinum, nickel, beef …) only count with a commodity context; sport and entertainment titles are excluded
• Company news: only articles whose headline names the company
• Pipelines: state and service dates now come from Wikidata instead of hand-written text (Nord Stream 1 and 2 shown as destroyed)
• Company flags were missing for many names in the Companies lists and the all-companies table of an industry
• The company search in the Companies tab can now select a company

22 September 202607:56auslieferung-20260922-0756

Data check round 5, SEC chain gaps closed, former executives removed

Fixed

• Company figures: 367 missing revenue years added for companies that report revenue under less common SEC tags (Valero, TJX, Kraft Heinz, Duke Energy and others); no existing value changed.
• Company figures: where two entries share one SEC filer number, the figures now go to the filing company (Norfolk Southern Corporation instead of its railway, Tapestry instead of Coach, Dell Technologies, Hertz Global Holdings, DiDi Global, Zions Bancorporation).
• Company pages: former CEOs, managers and chairs are no longer listed as current (Amazon showed Jeff Bezos next to Andy Jassy); leadership is refreshed every 30 days.
• Company check: a company that still files annual or quarterly reports with the SEC always stays, and the latest year also counts figures from mandatory reports.
• Country facts (CIA World Factbook): 23 countries and territories added that were missing because of spelling (Côte d'Ivoire, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Nauru and others); the US rail network is shown again.
• Migration: the number of immigrants per country is the UN total including unknown origin (Germany 16.75 instead of 13.6 million).
• Airports and ports: seven airports on Caribbean and Pacific territories added.
• City prices: rent is labelled per m² and year, as Eurostat defines it.

21 September 202623:05auslieferung-20260921-2305

Data check round 4, dissolved companies removed everywhere, 13 interface points

Improved

• Trade Chain: situation summary at the top (concentration, price trend, supplier countries under strain); "All resources" counts every traded resource; the country-tables button is a gold checkbox.
• Tree: the DESK score opens as a tile under the company instead of leaving the page.
• Companies tab: the list appears when you click into the search; the map zooms like the other maps and has a reset button; the mind map lists all companies of an industry A–Z on click.
• Companies map: with countries selected, the menu shows only their companies and their headquarters appear individually; city markers no longer cover company markers.
• World maps: pointer finger over strait names; "Resource exports" is now "Resource trades".

Fixed

• Data check, fourth round: every OECD series (leading indicator, business and consumer confidence, all seven tax series, every country) and every everyday-price source now verified against the original.
• Corporate tax: 4,792 missing country-years added (the OECD JSON output left years out; DESK now reads the CSV).
• Everyday prices: US gas per kWh used a fixed heat value and was 3.6 % too high, now uses the EIA's measured heat content; Oil Bulletin prices no longer lose 0.0001 €/L to rounding; US lines that measured something else (candy as "chocolate", rice as "cereals", meat with fish and eggs) are replaced by the matching BLS group index or left out.
• Companies by country: the latest year's revenue instead of the highest ever, converted at that year's exchange rate; taxes, charities, universities and fictional companies are no longer listed as companies.
• Companies that no longer exist are removed everywhere, including subsidiary and plant sites of their groups (AgustaWestland stood as a Leonardo site); the check now runs weekly, and a company still filing annual or quarterly reports with the SEC always stays.
• Military sites: 177 closed bases removed, all operators shown, former countries and operators with an end date dropped, NATO no longer counts as a foreign country.
• Rivers: lengths and areas recorded in miles or square miles were shown as km (North Platte 716 instead of 1,152 km); small values keep three digits.
• Indices: the self-sufficiency index follows changes to its parts immediately, and the IMF credit tile no longer shows 158 invented 0 % entries.
• Heads of state and government: labels only kept in the multilingual field are read too (Emmanuel Macron).
• USGS: the PDF reader now reads the first column and weak editions, adding 4,202 historic values and replacing 1,055 estimates with final figures.

21 September 202617:30auslieferung-20260921-1730

IMF credit ratio from the same year, prison rate named and weighted as a rate

Fixed

• IMF credit as a share of GDP now divides credit and GDP of the same year. The tile had divided the latest credit by the latest GDP, up to a year apart, and labelled it with the earlier year. Argentina showed 5.94 % instead of 6.35 %.
• The prison figure is the rate per 100,000 people, as Our World in Data publishes it. It had been named "Prison population" and was added up for groups of countries. It is now named as a rate and weighted by population.
• Hospital beds (per 10,000 people) and the homicide rate (per 100,000) now name their unit.

21 September 202617:02auslieferung-20260921-1702

UCDP latest releases, ESEF revenue parts, 8-K rules, companies tab and map improvements

Improved

• Trade Chain tree, step 3: the DESK score turns gold on hover and opens the company's score breakdown.
• Chokepoint figures on the world maps (sea routes and sea areas) open their daily history, as in the chokepoint card.
• Companies, industry map: clicking the name of an open industry lists all its companies from A to Z.
• Companies tab: an industry filter next to the search and a scrollable list of all companies, with the flag of the headquarters country. The map zooms and pans (crosshair cursor), and the "Open the company world map" button is gone. The search field no longer shows a blue outline.
• Company world map: the company menu is one list from A to Z with a flag before each name, without country headings. With a raw material selected, the most dependent companies stand out and the lowest fifth fades. The producers of the raw material itself show in gold.
• Trade Chain: from two countries on, a button enlarges the country tables to full width.

Fixed

• Conflict deaths for 2026 now count each UCDP event in its latest release. UCDP re-issues some events in later months with corrected numbers; the first release had been kept. Lebanon 2026 showed 2,656 instead of 4,422 deaths, Iran 23,739 instead of 23,612.
• ESEF revenue: where a report gives no total revenue, DESK now adds up the revenue types it lists instead of taking one part. NOS showed €132 million instead of €1.66 billion.
• DESK Radar: nine more 8-K agreements no longer show as "Expanding", among them share buybacks, share issues, preferred units, note redemptions, supplier finance, a rights plan and an activist agreement. Share purchase agreements for acquisitions still count.
• The map and ranking follow new ESEF figures right away.

21 September 202616:14auslieferung-20260921-1614

Ongoing wars stay noted in DESK Radar

Improved

• DESK Radar: an ongoing war between states stays noted for as long as it lasts: currently Russia–Ukraine, and Iran against Israel and the United States. It shows as a quiet grey card, with no red count, no pulsing and no daily alert. The rule comes entirely from UCDP: a conflict between states that is still active, a war by UCDP's definition (at least 1,000 battle deaths in a year), with at least one side from the G20 or the nuclear powers. The red major-event alert stays for new outbreaks only.

21 September 202615:56auslieferung-20260921-1556

Radar data check: net income from the right SEC document, 8-K meanings read

Fixed

• Net income from the wrong SEC document: the SEC's frames service returns the latest filing for each period, and since 2026 that includes proxy statements, whose "pay versus performance" table gives net income in millions. FedEx showed $3,826 instead of $3.8 billion for 2021 to 2025, Arista $841, Medtronic $5,039. DESK now looks up the form of every filing and takes the figure from the financial statements (10-K, 10-Q, 20-F, 40-F). Margins, scores and DESK Radar use the corrected figures.
• Net income, operating income and cash flow are checked for unit errors in the filer's own data, such as Jakks Pacific's $38.1 billion instead of $38.4 million.
• Banco de Chile showed $105,346 in revenue next to $1.66 billion in net income. A revenue further below net income than was ever measured in audited statements now counts as a partial item.
• DESK Radar: a voluntary bond redemption (The Mosaic Company) no longer ranks as the most severe burden, and credit lines, bond and underwriting agreements no longer show as "Expanding". What an 8-K means is now read from its text.
• DESK Radar: a single headline only passes with an SEC filing from within 30 days of it, not with any filing from the last 60 days.
• DESK Radar: the largest companies of a country only include companies with a known revenue.

21 September 202614:31auslieferung-20260921-1431

Monthly trade since 1960, pyramids since 1950, Taiwan

Improved

• Monthly trade now goes back to 1960 instead of ten years: every country's exports and imports by partner, month by month, from the IMF trade statistics. The trade-map timeline runs in months over the whole span. Where a country reports no monthly figures yet, its annual figures for that year are shown.
• Population pyramids start in 1950 instead of 1960, and Taiwan has one for the first time. Both come from the UN World Population Prospects, used only where the World Bank has nothing.
• Amounts in Taiwan dollars before 2015 are no longer dropped. They are converted at the Federal Reserve's annual rate, available from 1983.
• TSMC and UFP Industries now carry their SEC figures (TSMC from 2015). Their filings had been rejected because the short name did not match the filer's full name; initials are now recognised.

21 September 202613:55auslieferung-20260921-1355

Longer history, annual exchange rates, self-refreshing company data

Improved

• Longer company history: SEC figures now start with the first machine-readable filings (from 2003, broadly from 2007) instead of 2009. German company reports keep their earlier years when a new report arrives.
• Company figures before 1999 outside the US are no longer dropped. Every year from 1960 is converted at the World Bank's official annual exchange rate; for the euro before a country joined, via its old currency and the irrevocable conversion rate.
• Revenue growth runs from the latest value again, including the trailing twelve months, so the score moves with every quarterly report. The company page and DESK Radar now calculate it the same way, so no page shows a different figure.
• The data refreshes itself in the right order: every week, SEC figures, IFRS filers, the measured check limits, the Wikidata figures, map and ranking, and the consolidation evidence. Before, only the SEC data renewed on its own, and a new quarterly report never reached the map.
• Only new data is fetched: the SEC build and the World Bank series fetch just the latest years and set them onto the stored history. The full history is fetched again every 90 days, because sources also correct older years.
• Faster pickup of new releases: ESEF annual reports weekly instead of monthly, ILO labour data and UCDP conflict data every 14 days instead of 30.

Fixed

• Currency conversion for 1998 to 2014: the exchange-rate file only starts in 2015, so all older amounts had been converted at today's rate. A 2008 euro revenue came out 26 % too low, and amounts in Egyptian pounds or Nigerian naira were off by a multiple. Every amount is now converted at the rate of its own year. Where no annual rate exists, it is not shown.
• IFRS filers kept no figures before 2015 in foreign currency. They are now converted at the annual rate.

21 September 202613:06auslieferung-20260921-1306

Settings redesigned, growth on fiscal years, full data scan

Improved

• Settings, redesigned: three columns that fit on one screen. Display (language, theme, TradingView) and notifications are on the left, the account in the middle, and the DESK Score weights on the right. Changing e-mail, password or community code now folds open when you need it. The legal notice has its own tile, and signing out sits together with deleting the account at the bottom. Explanations have moved behind a small "i".
• The DESK Score weights are laid out more compactly: company and country parts side by side, the company figures in two columns, with short labels.
• Revenue growth in the score is now measured over full fiscal years, like on the company page and in DESK Radar. Before, the score started from the trailing twelve months and could show a different growth figure for the same company.

Fixed

• The score now rounds the sum that is shown. Before, "sum 46.5" could stand next to a score of 46.
• The data checks run until nothing more is found. A second outlier right next to a removed one is now also caught (OpenAI 2022).
• The moat list no longer excludes margins below −200 %. That limit was a DESK setting; the list now uses the same margin rule as the score.

21 September 202612:43auslieferung-20260921-1243

Measured data checks, own score weights, visible source seam, GLEIF consolidation

Added

• Your own DESK Score weights: a new DESK Score card in Settings has sliders for the parts of the company score, the parts of the country score and the eleven company figures. With your own weights, every score, ranking and score history on DESK is calculated with them, for your account only. "Back to standard" restores DESK's weights. A small "your weights" note shows next to the score whenever your own weights apply.
• The company page draws years from mandatory filings (SEC, ESEF, annual reports) and years from Wikidata as separate lines, so you can see where the source changes.

Improved

• The data checks no longer use factors chosen by DESK. Their limits are now measured on audited SEC filings (XBRL since 2009). A Wikidata value next to a filed one may differ by at most the 99th percentile of what filed companies of the same industry change over the same number of years. An outlier must lie far from both neighbours, and a change of unit is recognised by its factor of 1,000. Measured against the old rules, the old "five times the median" rule had discarded 365 real values, including Nvidia's and Tesla's revenue for 2023 to 2025. These are back, and genuine errors that the old rules missed are now caught (for example Glencore's total assets in thousands and Amazon's 2022 market value in thousands).
• Market value is checked against revenue and total assets of the same year, with a limit measured within the sector. Nvidia's real market values for 2021 to 2023 are back, and market values in the wrong unit (Saint-Gobain, Lenovo, Ryanair) are caught.
• Revenue per employee is checked against the median income of the home country instead of a fixed 1,000 $. A value is only dropped if total assets per employee are just as low, so a young company with capital but little revenue keeps its figures.
• SEC figures: a partial revenue item is now recognised with logic and a second source instead of a factor of five. American Express, BlackRock and M&T now show their full revenue. Quarters are checked against the rule that they add up to the year.
• More official figures: SEC data now goes back to 2009 instead of seven years, and IFRS filers such as Toyota and Vale keep their recent years.
• Unlisted subsidiaries count under their parent only if GLEIF or the ownership share (more than half) shows that the parent consolidates them. Edeka Nord (50 %) now counts on its own.
• Growth uses the same window everywhere: the oldest value 3 to 5 years back, in the score, on the company page and in DESK Radar.
• Price levels and working hours no longer count in the country score. Purchasing power is already measured by GDP per capita and median income, both in purchasing-power parities. Before, cheap countries gained points simply because incomes there are low.
• Raw-material chain in the score: the strongest dependency of any industry on any commodity in the BEA table now counts fully, instead of an assumed 10 cents.
• The methodology page describes all new rules with their measured values.

Fixed

• Smurfit Westrock's 2022 equity of 107 $ in the SEC data and a few similar unit errors in filed balance sheets are no longer used.

21 September 202611:33auslieferung-20260921-1133

Methodology page, data clause in the Terms, Wikidata figures checked against the API

Added

• Methodology page (/methodik): every figure DESK calculates itself, with its formula. It covers currency conversion, trailing twelve months, the rules for company figures, the DESK score for companies and countries, every DESK Radar rule, and the lists and chains. Values that DESK chose rather than took from the data are marked as settings. It is linked from the Terms of Use, the Sources page, the Radar method box and the score explanation.
• Terms of Use, new section 3 "Where the figures come from": DESK only uses public sources and their interfaces, the providers are responsible for the content of their data, every calculation has its formula on the Methodology page, and errors can be reported. All accounts confirm the terms once more.

Fixed

• Wikidata figures, checked company by company against the Wikidata API (4,899 companies): company figures are now built from the API statements. Statements Wikidata marks as deprecated no longer count (125 figures, e.g. Shell, Allianz, Eni). Figures restricted to a part of a company no longer count. A preferred statement wins, and where two valid statements for a year contradict each other, the year stays empty instead of taking the larger one (182 years). After the change, all 33,509 Wikidata figures can be traced back to a valid API statement, and every gap has a stated reason. One effect: Turkish lira figures had been converted at today's rate (Pegasus Airlines 2022 showed $0.9bn instead of $2.6bn).
• The score tooltip in the Trade Chain tree named factors the score no longer uses, and the note on duplicate entries mentioned only CIK and LEI. Both now describe the current calculation.

21 September 202611:12auslieferung-20260921-1112

Fourth data check: report texts match their tables, first-time conflicts, revenue years

Fixed

• DESK Radar, commodity reports: the "why here" line counts the same exporting countries as the table below it (from 0.1% of world exports). Crude oil said "8 exporting countries" above a table of four; the other four were below 0.1% together.
• DESK Radar, conflicts: a report without deaths the year before now says "for the first time since 1989" where there never were conflict deaths (Belize, Dominican Republic, Oman), instead of "recorded again".
• DESK Radar, company revenue year: the year shown with a company's revenue now comes from the same list as the amount. Sasol showed a revenue without a year.

21 September 202611:04auslieferung-20260921-1104

Third data check: headline matching, conflict significance, major-event baseline, company sheets

Fixed

• DESK Radar, company headlines: a headline now has to name the company itself. Mitsubishi Corporation carried the headlines of Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy, and Nibe Industrier (Swedish heat pumps) carried those of Nibe Limited, an Indian defence supplier. Where several companies share a first name, the headline needs the second one too. A different legal form after the name means a different company.
• DESK Radar, conflicts: a country is only reported when its deaths are unlikely at last year's rate (the same Poisson test as for the news reports). Nepal stood as "conflict rising" with 3 deaths against 1, and weighed on commodities as a result.
• DESK Radar, major events: a red alert now needs at least seven days to compare against. The store only started collecting on 19 September, so the baseline was zero and any topic above 0.5% of all articles would have turned red at once. The list of the hundred largest companies for bankruptcies no longer holds groups or duplicates (the Mitsubishi group stood there with $533bn).
• DESK Radar, company sheets: the revenue history, margins and figures use the same series as the score, the map and the company page (the head of a sheet read Wikidata only). "Same industry" no longer lists duplicates, and the commodity chains no longer list groups as producers.

21 September 202610:53auslieferung-20260921-1053

Second data check: one revenue per company everywhere, source seams, ESEF currencies, German number formats

Fixed

• One revenue per company everywhere: the company map, the Trade Chain tree and the rankings now read the same series as the DESK score and the company page, with SEC, IFRS, ESEF and company reports ahead of Wikidata. Before, 86 companies showed two different figures (Enel $163bn on the map and $86bn in the score, Veidekke with Norwegian kroner shown as dollars, Vivendi and Nebius with pre-split figures).
• Where Wikidata and a filing meet, a Wikidata value that contradicts the filing beyond what growth can explain (for example a quarter entered as a year) no longer creates growth that never happened. Examples are Textron, AECOM and Fannie Mae. Newer Wikidata values after a filing series ends stay (Apollo after its merger with Athene).
• ESEF: one currency per report, the one most of its amounts are tagged in. Schouw & Co. tags its Danish-krone figures as euros; where the home currency matches a second source and the tagged one does not, the home currency is used. Rosseti carried the report of a different company.
• Banks: where the SEC revenue tag holds only fee income and is smaller than the year's profit (M&T, Zions), it no longer counts as revenue.
• DESK Radar: - The list of globally systemically important banks held two banks that are only nationally systemic (Bank of Georgia, TBC Bank), and Santander was missing. - The moat list reads the filed figures, and only companies measured within the last three years are listed. - The current-year point of the score history is recomputed as soon as the calculation changes. - For natural gas, the price (Europe, World Bank) and the EIA outlook (Henry Hub, US) now name their markets instead of seeming to contradict each other.
• German mode: amounts, shares and changes read in German across the site ("330,5 Mrd. $", "4,11 %"), including the price ticker.

21 September 202610:12auslieferung-20260921-1012

Radar data checked source by source, Companies tab with three ways in, raw materials on the company map

Added

• Companies tab: a new entry page with a company search and a map of all headquarters on top, and three ways in below: by industry (the industry map), by raw material (who needs it most per dollar of output) and by country (the companies headquartered there, by revenue).
• Company world map: a raw-material field next to the sector filter colours every headquarters by how many cents of that raw material its industry needs per dollar of output (BEA), with a list of the most dependent companies and a way into the Trade Chain tree.
• Trade Chain: in a country's table with "All resources", the totals of the four categories open their history, with one line per commodity.

Improved

• Trade Chain tree, step 3: the grey industry text after each company is gone (the coloured dot already says it; it stays as a tooltip), and the DESK score shows as a number only.
• Companies tab: the legends are separated. Line and bar colours sit under the mind map, and the dot legend sits in the head of the industry table.
• Trade Chain: the production chart has no dropdown of its own any more. It follows the resource picked at the top, and a group shows its largest commodity by name.
• Trade Chain tree map: strait names carry the same dark rounded label as on the world maps.

Fixed

• Chokepoints: the history of a ship count opened behind the strait's info panel, so nothing seemed to happen. It now opens on top.
• Company figures, checked source by source: - The same company no longer counts twice. Registrations sharing an ISIN are merged. Unlisted subsidiaries and divisions count under their parent (Volkswagen under Volkswagen Group, Mercedes-Benz AG, Boeing's divisions). Groups that are not companies themselves drop out: the Mitsubishi group stood at $533bn, the sum of its separately listed members, and Samsung Group, Mitsui Group and China Resources are treated the same way. - SEC revenue: when a filer tags only part of its revenue under the first tag, the full figure is used (General Mills stood at $2bn instead of $18bn, BNSF at $0.1bn instead of $23bn, Emerson and Zions as well). Annual values smaller than their own quarters, and full years filed as a quarter (NiSource, L3Harris), are dropped. TIAA carried the figures of a real-estate fund. - Headcounts read from annual-report text that contradict the company's own history are dropped: 400 at Coca-Cola, 6,100 at Kroger, 9,000 at AT&T. Revenue and headcount are also dropped where revenue per employee is impossibly low, for example when Wikidata lists LG Chem in thousands of dollars.
• DESK Radar: a headline no longer appears under two reports for the same country (20 Pakistan headlines stood under both violence and unrest), and an 8-K with several items counts as one filing.

21 September 202609:27auslieferung-20260921-0927

Journal folder move fixed

Fixed

• DESK Journal: the ⇄ folder move opens reliably now. Its menu sat far off to the right while the mouse was over the folder tile, jumped into place when the mouse left, and flickered when hovered (worst over "New subfolder"). The tile lifts on hover without a transform now, so the menu stays right under the button.

21 September 202609:16auslieferung-20260921-0916

Radar map legend below, right column scrolls with the page, contact address

Improved

• DESK Radar map: the legend sits below the map on the left, as on every other map; the imagery menu sits on the right of the tile head. The enlarge button is gone — the enlarged view was smaller than the tile itself.
• DESK Radar: the right-hand column is part of the page again. It scrolls with the page, without a scroll area of its own and without jumping.

Fixed

• Terms of use and legal notice name contact@deskalmanac.com as the contact address.

21 September 202609:12auslieferung-20260921-0912

Folders that move, weekly reports back in time, forestry trade, companies that no longer exist removed

Added

• DESK Journal: whole folders can be moved — an account with its subfolders into a backtest, into another folder, or to the top as its own live account or backtest. A ⇄ button on every folder tile opens the choice.
• Life & Spirit: a Reports button in the enlarged nutrition tile lists every calendar week since the first entry. Each weekly PDF only uses data up to the Sunday of its week, so past weeks can be downloaded as they were.
• Trade-Chain: forestry products are traded goods now — roundwood, sawnwood, plywood, chemical wood pulp and fuel wood from CEPII BACI, in the country tables, the trade charts and the forestry chains.
• Chokepoints: the ship counts in a strait's sheet open their daily history — the last 7, 30 or 180 days, and a year per ship type.
• Link previews: shared links to deskalmanac.com show a DESK preview image with "The world's markets, on one desk." instead of a world map.

Improved

• Trade-Chain: "Maps & tables" is now called "Panels". The commodity switch of a group sits as a dropdown in the head of the production chart, with nothing below the chart.
• Trade-Chain tree: the DESK score in step 3 has its own field and shows for every industry, not only where the industry name was short.
• DESK Journal: moving a trade offers only the folders of its own account, as an indented tree, in the site's dropdown; the trade table sits flush in its tile.
• Dropdowns across the site open with the staggered row animation.
• German mode: 144 dictionary terms carry their German name (implied volatility, double top, principal component analysis …) with the English one kept as a search alias; 26 broker and bank descriptions are translated.
• Public pages: the legal notice and "About DESK" are linked from every product page; legal pages have canonical addresses and descriptions.

Fixed

• Companies that no longer exist stay out: the list of removed companies was never read by the build scripts, so rebuilds brought them back (Agrium, ANSYS, Lafarge, Polycom, FireEye). A dissolution now counts whenever the reported figures do not reach beyond it; Ahold, RWE Supply & Trading CZ and Latvijas Radio were removed.
• Trade-Chain: the occurrence & production chart stayed empty with "All resources" plus selected countries.
• Trade-Chain tree: the band of radar reports is removed again.
• Chokepoints: in German mode the radar's strait names found their ship counts and routes again.

21 September 202608:36auslieferung-20260921-0836

Radar map tools, the whole site in German, a bilingual changelog

Added

• DESK Radar map: a country search with a scrolling list, so small countries can be found; several countries can be selected at once, each as a chip, with Clear all.
• DESK Radar map: clicking a legend entry or its symbol hides or shows that layer; an enlarge button opens the map large, and zoom works inside the enlarged map too.
• DESK Radar: revenue figures open their line chart, as on the company pages.
• Changelog: the whole page is now available in German — every entry since 11 August, not only the labels. The language switch at the top changes the entire page.

Improved

• German mode: the site is now German throughout. 573 indicator names of the Macro Terminal (commodity exports and imports, mine production, crops and livestock, forestry products, drug seizures), all country names and World Bank country groups, straits, goods sections, industries, price series and units in the Radar, the country headers, the money-supply tiles and the conflict tables now follow the chosen language. Company names and headlines stay as published.
• DESK Radar: the right-hand column scrolls on its own; the mouse wheel over it no longer waits for the middle column to reach its end.
• DESK Radar: crosshair instead of the mouse pointer on the map; "Reset zoom" appears only once the map is zoomed; the enlarge buttons in the middle column have the rounded frame used everywhere else.
• DESK Radar: the history chart uses the standard chart with crosshair and value box; the usual level and the forecast are named in the value box instead of as text over the curve.
• AI explanations in the Radar follow the page language, also after switching languages.
• News and DESK Radar: "Listed companies only" sits after the feed menu, without a tick box, with a gold frame when active.
• Sources page: filings.xbrl.org (ESEF), company reports, the Federal Reserve's FOMC calendar and the Frankfurter ECB rates are listed; the SEC and sanctions entries name what they are used for.
• Public pages: the gold dot in the browser tab on Privacy, About DESK, Terms and Legal notice; footer links follow the language switch.

Fixed

• Changelog: entries since 18 September showed everything under "Improved". Each point is now filed under Added, Improved or Fixed again.
• DESK Radar map: the white outline of a selected country is always drawn in full; neighbouring countries no longer cover half of it.
• DESK Radar history chart: the text no longer overlaps the curve.
• Mine production: "Nitrogen (Fixed)—Ammonia" carried a broken character from the source, and five forestry products read "(production) production".

21 September 202607:18auslieferung-20260921-0718

Companies counted once, sanctions counted once

Improved

• Checked and found correct in this pass: no duplicate entry IDs, no duplicate chokepoints, no route counted twice in a commodity's shipping pressure, a burdened country counted once per commodity. Headlines that appear under two countries (a story about Russia and Ukraine) are evidence for both and are not added up anywhere.

Fixed

• DESK score, companies counted twice: Wikidata keeps predecessors, successors and subsidiaries as separate entries and often gives them the same SEC CIK or LEI. 15 companies stood twice in the ranking with the same figures and different scores — Coach 59 and Tapestry 47, Hewlett-Packard and HP Inc., Ahold and Ahold Delhaize, Garmin Group and Garmin Ltd., Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway — and both counted in their country's score. The same identity at the register now counts once. Which entry counts is decided by data: the one that has figures, then the one whose name is closest to the name under which the SEC itself lists the CIK ("NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP" → the Corporation, not the Railway), then the more recent figures. The other entry shows "counted under …" with a link, instead of "too few figures". The SEC names come from the SEC ticker directory and renew weekly.
• A wrong identifier: Wikidata lists Snowflake's CIK for Castor Maritime, a small shipping company, which therefore carried Snowflake's revenue history and a score based on it. Both builds that fetch SEC figures by CIK now check the filer name in the SEC response and drop the figures when it names a different company; Castor Maritime and Arconic (whose CIK now belongs to Howmet Aerospace) no longer receive them. The check also compares names written together, so "AkzoNobel" still matches "AKZO NOBEL NV".
• SEC filings: when a company filed two 8-Ks on the same day with the same item — a report and its follow-up, twelve times in the last sixty days — both counted as evidence and raised the weight of the entry. The same company, day and item is now one piece of evidence. Filings of a CIK now attach to the entry that is counted; before, whichever entry came last in the list got them.
• Situation overview: "expanding / under strain" counts companies, not entries; a company with both a press and an SEC entry counted twice.
• Sanctions: 93 entities are on both OFAC lists (SDN and consolidated) under the same number — VTB Bank among them — and counted twice per country. The other 388 entries of the consolidated list were missing entirely, because its address file was never fetched. Each OFAC number now counts once, and the consolidated addresses are read. OFAC spellings that matched no country ("Virgin Islands, British", "The Gambia", "Region: Gaza", "Cote d Ivoire", Jersey and Guernsey as the Channel Islands) are now assigned; disputed areas (Crimea, Kashmir, Kafia Kingi) stay unassigned on purpose. Because the radar reports new sanctions by comparing with the count a month earlier, counts made under the old method are no longer compared with the new ones — otherwise the change would have shown Russia with 114 "new sanctions".
• Also included, from the delivery of this morning: macro records are built from completed years only (a 2026 IMF projection had been reported as France's record debt).

21 September 202606:47auslieferung-20260921-0647

Macro records only from completed years

Improved

• The rest of this audit found nothing to fix, checked against the underlying data rather than by eye: all 8 interest-rate turns (step, level, number of opposite steps, start month) against the BIS series; the conflict pace for all 10 conflict entries; the burdened export share of all 12 commodity entries across every exporting country; the news figures of all 16 news situations (articles per day, last 24 hours, the comparison with every earlier seven-day stretch); the two-sources-or-a-filing rule for all 17 company entries; the 8-K item behind every official filing; and in Key positions the designation of all 28 banks and the top-three export share, the three countries and the position above the median for all 94 producers.

Fixed

• Radar, macro records: "Government debt France 2026: 118.4 %, highest in the whole series" was a record on a forecast. The IMF series (government debt, budget balance, government revenue) carry the running year as a history point, but in September a value for 2026 is the World Economic Outlook projection, not an outcome. 6 of 150 macro messages rested on such values. Messages are now built from completed years only; France now appears with 2025 (116 %), which is the highest value of its series. The World Bank publishes annual figures only after the year ends, so a point for the running year can only ever be a projection — the rule applies to every series alike. A CI check builds a series with a "record" in the running year and fails if a message comes out of it.

20 September 202622:04auslieferung-20260920-2204

Routes to the smaller straits, commodity switch, categories in the country table

Added

• Overlay of the world maps: switching on "Smaller straits" now also draws their routes. The 17 smaller straits stood there as bare dots while the blue lines ran only through the big ones. The routes existed already — the feeder legs of the sea network the tree map computes with, running through Lombok, Torres, Magellan, the Korea Strait, the Bohai Sea, Luzon and the Øresund. Same geometry, same caveat (laid by hand over known waypoints), thinner and paler than the main corridors, on the same switch as the straits themselves.
• Production chart of a group: the largest commodity has become a switch. Every commodity of the group that reports world production is now offered, the largest first and preselected, and the chart follows the pick with its own unit. The long note about tonnes and carats is gone — the row of commodities says it better.
• Country table in the Trade-Chain tab with "All resources": exports and imports open into the four categories (metals & minerals, energy, agriculture, forestry), largest first, and each category opens by itself into its commodities. Behind every commodity the partner countries now carry their rank, turn gold on hover and open the country page on click.

Improved

• Trade-Chain tree, step 1: "(Occurrence #1 · Export #21)" no longer clings to the country name but stands on the right of the row, left of the figure — the same place where step 2 puts "23.3 % of all its imports".
• Company mindmap: the legend now says what the colour of a line is — the kind of main group — and names the groups behind each colour, with the full list on hover. It listed the five words without saying where they applied.

Fixed

• Trade routes that cross the date line ran to their last point and stopped in mid-ocean. They now run to the edge of the map and continue on the other side: the crossing point is computed, so the line from North America reaches the left edge and picks up on the right towards China.

20 September 202621:36auslieferung-20260920-2136

Seats checked against the map, everyday-price fixes

Fixed

• Company seats: 109 of 4,902 companies had a country that contradicted their own seat coordinate — Prologis filed under Korea with its dot in San Francisco, Group 1 Automotive under the United Kingdom with its dot in Houston, Danone under Spain with its dot in Paris. The two came from different Wikidata statements (P17 for the country, P159 for the point) and nothing checked them against each other. Every seat is now tested against the map geometry, and where the two disagree the official registers decide: the GLEIF LEI record, which carries the legal address and the headquarters address separately, and for companies without an LEI the business address from their SEC filings. 191 contradictions were found, 109 settled; the remaining ones have neither an LEI nor an SEC filing, and guessing would be worse than the contradiction.
• Two guards, both from cases that came up: an LEI whose legal name is a different company is ignored (Wikidata lists an LEI for Gold Fields that belongs to a company of the same name in Nellore, India — it would have moved the South African miner to Delhi), and a register naming a third country needs a second sign, either a site of the company there or its ISIN. Seats within one map pixel of their own border stay as they are, so Geneva suburbs are not pushed into France.
• Everyday prices for chemicals and plastics: the main column said "Price level vs EU" and showed a dash in all 27 and 14 rows — Eurostat publishes price levels for consumer goods only, not for producer prices. Those two measures now show where the index stands against the 2025 average of the same country, and the table is sorted by it.
• Everyday prices in a currency outside the ECB list (166 currencies are offered, the ECB publishes daily series for 30): the chart said "ECB rate of each day" while the whole history was in fact converted at today's rate. The tile now says so, next to the currency and under the chart.
• DESK score: three short texts still described the old rule — three figures from the last two financial years. They now say what the code does since this morning: two of the six core figures, from whatever year the company last reported, with that year shown.
• Score history: the revenue that weights a company inside its country score was still limited to figures from the two years before, so a company scored on 2018 figures counted as zero. It now uses the most recent revenue reported up to that year.

20 September 202620:27auslieferung-20260920-2027

Figures back on top, score from the data as it is, with its year

Improved

• Company pages: revenue and net profit are back at the top, next to the name and logo, and the share price sits in the overview again.
• DESK score: no longer limited to figures from the last two years. It is computed from the most recent figures a company has published and carries the year they come from — "as of 2018" says exactly that, on the company page, in the tables and in every tooltip. A score without its year would not be readable.
• DESK score: two of the six core figures are enough instead of three. Measured over all 4,902 companies: 737 have all six, 561 five, 377 four, 373 three, 373 two, 378 one and 2,103 none at all. With three as the minimum, 2,048 companies qualified; with two it is 2,421 — and that brings in Sinopec, China National Petroleum, the Schwarz Group and the Agricultural Bank of China. Below two there is nothing to compare: a single revenue figure says nothing, and the coverage rule would pull such a score so close to the middle that it carries no information.
• Together with the figures of the foreign SEC filers fetched earlier today, 2,437 companies now have a score instead of 1,446 this morning. The remaining gap is the sources: 1,473 companies have no figure at all in anything that is free and commercially usable.

Fixed

• The reference year is always a full year now; the SEC series carry running twelve-month values as fractions (2025.5 means twelve months to mid-2026), which would have shown up as "as of 2025.5".
• The explanation of the score was rewritten where it still described the old rule, including the 35 % coverage limit that the code had already stopped applying.

20 September 202620:00auslieferung-20260920-2000

IFRS figures for foreign SEC filers, grouped key positions, scroll and preload

Added

• DESK score: companies that file with the SEC as foreign issuers were missing their figures. The figures are fetched from the us-gaap frames in US dollars, but a 20-F or 40-F filer reports under IFRS and usually in its own currency, so 244 companies with a CIK had no SEC figures at all — Toyota, Nestlé, BP, Allianz, Honda, AXA, Mitsubishi UFJ among them. A new step reads them from SEC companyfacts and converts each year at the exchange rate of that year. 84 companies gained figures; Mitsubishi UFJ and Toronto-Dominion now have a score, and so do Toyota, H&M and Novo Nordisk in the moat table.
• Why so many companies still have no score, measured rather than guessed: of 4,848 companies, 1,477 have no figure at all in the open sources, 1,446 have none newer than 2024, and 451 have current figures but fewer than the three the score needs. That is a limit of the free sources, not of the calculation — the audit of the score itself found no error in its ranges, ranks, weights or the pull towards 50. A missing score now says why when you hover it.

Improved

• Key positions: grouped by category instead of repeating the same reason in every row. One heading for the designated systemically important banks, one per commodity with its concentration and its three largest exporting countries, and the rows below carry only flag, name, country and score.
• Restart and reload: the reserve of map layers no longer starts at the same moment as the page you are looking at. It waits three seconds and then loads in groups of three, so the open view gets the line to itself first. Same amount of data, different order.

Fixed

• Company pages open at the top again. A click from an enlarged tile went through the scroll lock, which restored the position of the page you came from — on the new page that was somewhere in the middle.

20 September 202619:00auslieferung-20260920-1900

Restart 41s to 3.6s, sidebar scrolling, key positions, seats

Added

• DESK Radar: a second table under the moat companies, shown when the tile is enlarged — companies in a key position. Banks carrying the official designation as globally systemically important, and named producers of a commodity whose exports concentrate on few countries (uranium 99 %, lithium 95 %, rare earths 83 %). Banks designated nationally rather than globally, such as DBS in Singapore, are in no free machine-readable list and are therefore not there.

Improved

• Restart: the first radar answer after a restart took 41 seconds, now 3.6. The cause was a loop in the wrong place — for each of the 32 commodities it walked all 4,900 company profiles and rebuilt the same industry text, margin and objects, 157,000 times, although none of it depends on the commodity. It is built once per data state now, and the radar is warmed up in the background like the other heavy pages. The output is byte for byte the same.
• Tree: the DESK score is gone from steps 1 and 2 — it rates a country as a place to invest, not its role in this supply chain.

Fixed

• DESK Radar: the right-hand column no longer sticks. Taller than the window, it froze at the top while the left side kept scrolling, and its lower part could not be reached at all.
• DESK Radar: enlarged tiles react to clicks again. The forwarder that passes a click from the enlarged copy to the page knew the macro, portfolio and crypto tiles but not the radar ones, so every enlarged radar row was dead.
• Company seats: where Wikidata lists two headquarters of equal rank, the build took whichever came first — CME Group ended up in London instead of Chicago. A new step picks the seat that the ISIN and the company's own sites point to, and only when Wikidata itself lists a seat in that country. 15 seats corrected, among them Canadian National Railway, Dassault Systèmes, ASICS and Antofagasta; Marvell, HTC and LG Display were correctly left alone.
• Trade-Chain: with a whole group selected, the trade chart no longer slips below the production chart, and in the expanded country rows the list of partner countries runs to the full width instead of breaking off at half the table.
• Company pages: the enlarged price chart now fills its card instead of staying flat, and the industry mind map says which colours belong to the branches and which to the raw materials in the table. The close cross has lost its box.

20 September 202617:48auslieferung-20260920-1748

Moat companies, every strait clickable, year-correct currency

Added

• DESK Radar: every strait in the chokepoint tile can be opened now. With a report it opens the dossier, without one the strait's own card with ship counts, routes and the mind map — before, only the handful with a report reacted.
• DESK Radar: a new "Moat companies" tile below it. Market-share data is not freely available, so the list uses the mark a moat leaves in the figures: companies whose net margin stayed in the top quarter of their own industry in every comparable year, at least three of them. The quarter comes from the figures of the same year and industry, never from a set threshold. Ten in the tile, all of them enlarged, with industry, period, average margin, comparison group and DESK score; each row opens the company page, and figures older than two years carry their year.

Fixed

• DESK Radar: where two kinds of report are ranked together, they are now compared by their place within their own kind. "z" means a standard deviation for conflicts and routes but a percentage for commodities and a count of evidence for filings, so the raw numbers were not comparable and the larger scale always won.
• Company figures: revenue reported in another currency is now converted at the exchange rate of its own year for all 1019 companies outside the US — Sberbank's 2017 revenue rises from $33.7bn to $48.7bn. The build script does this by itself from now on.
• Three more figures that are wrong at the source were dropped: Korea Electric Power 2014–2016 (won instead of trillions of won), Tencent 2013–2017 (a tenth of the reported revenue) and Stroygazmontazh 2013–2015 (a thousandth). DESK never fills in a figure of its own; the year simply has none.

20 September 202616:55auslieferung-20260920-1655

Price chart on top, supply flows on the company map, group production, tidier tree

Added

• Company world map: a new "Supply flows" layer draws where the raw materials of the company's industry come from — the same figures as the table on its page (BEA input-output, CEPII BACI), stated as country trade, not the company's own shipments.
• World maps: "Shipping & rail corridors" has a sub-option for the smaller straits, so they can be switched on from the overlay menu.

Improved

• Company pages: the TradingView price chart moved up into the header and the revenue & net-profit chart down into the overview, where a button leads on to the full figures.
• Trade-Chain: with a whole group selected, the world production chart now shows its largest commodity by world exports instead of staying empty, and says so.
• Industry map: an X closes an opened branch, the connector lines carry the colour of their branch, and the largest company in the table turns gold and opens its company page.
• Tree: the DESK score is explained once by a question mark next to the title instead of at every number, and the step-3 buttons no longer carry a mouse-over box.

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: in the expanded country rows the commodity name no longer wraps over two lines; the full list of partners is in the tooltip.
• Company figures reported in another currency are now converted at the exchange rate of their own year instead of today's — a 2017 figure in roubles was off by about a fifth.

20 September 202616:03auslieferung-20260920-1603

Radar audit: dated figures, old currencies, ambiguous names

Fixed

• Every revenue figure in the Radar now carries its year when it is older than two years — Lynas stood in the producer list with $2.0M, its revenue of 2012, before it mined anything
• Revenue for the rankings comes from the newest sourced figure (company profile or the list of large companies), never from an older copy: Gazprom stood at $464bn, a 1994 figure in pre-denomination roubles converted at today's rate
• Money figures from before 1998 outside the United States are dropped — they are stated in currencies that have been redenominated since, and today's exchange rate turns them into nonsense
• Money figures without a year are dropped as well: a figure that cannot be placed in time cannot be converted or compared
• 74 revenue figures that no source backs any more were cleared; CATL's wrong 2023 revenue is out of the ranking list too
• OTE was two companies under one name — the Czech power-market operator and the Greek telecom, both filed as utilities. Industries can now be assigned by Wikidata id, and the build warns when a name matches more than one company. Pandora Media, the streaming service, no longer counts as a jewellery maker
• "Share of profit" in the impact ranking no longer prints figures like +4,271 %: above the whole margin it says "more than 100 %"
• A text on the routes panel showed "{w}" instead of the commodity name

20 September 202615:30auslieferung-20260920-1530

Tree as an investing tool, radar band, TradingView on the company overview

Added

• Company pages show the share price chart right on the overview, not only under "Stock & valuation" (TradingView, for every company with a verified symbol)
• Trade Chain tree: every supplier and every buyer carries its DESK score beside its name, so a chain can be read as country risk at a glance
• Step 3 can be ordered by revenue, by DESK score or by how much of the raw material an industry needs per dollar of output
• Step 4 says per company what a price rise costs: "+10 % costs 13 % of its margin" — cents per dollar of output against the company's own net margin
• New band in the tree: the DESK Radar reports that concern exactly this chain — the resource itself, armed violence or a business-cycle turn in the selected countries, a strait on the drawn route, a filing of a company involved. One click opens its dossier in the Radar
• The country table of the Trade Chain now names the top ten destination or origin countries behind each resource when a whole group is selected

Improved

• The occurrence-and-production chart carries both words in its title, and its two-coloured frame blends in the middle instead of meeting at a hard edge
• "All steps on one map" is now called the dependency map; the red and green import/export outlines on the combined map are thinner

20 September 202612:12auslieferung-20260920-1212

Industry names, cleanup of the companies map, straits and mindmap

Added

• The 119 commodity companies added yesterday now have their subsidiaries, plants and mines as well: 53 of them with sites, 507 branch points from OpenStreetMap
• Straits: the smaller ones (Korea, Sunda, Lombok, Makassar, Torres, Magellan, Kerch and ten more) can be switched on in the corridor overlay of every world map, and every strait — large or small — now opens its own sheet with the ship counts, cargo mix and daily transits from IMF PortWatch
• The Companies tab is a real mindmap now: the centre holds all industries, the branches curve out to the main groups, and a click goes into a branch. Below it a table of how many companies sit in each industry, with the listed-only switch

Improved

• Industries now carry names that say what is in them: "Other transportation equipment" is called Aerospace, defence, rail and ships (that row holds Lockheed, RTX, Thales and Elbit), "Miscellaneous manufacturing" is Medical devices, sporting goods and other manufacturing, "Chemical products" is Chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Nineteen rows in all; the official BEA name stays beside each one, so the classification can still be checked
• The companies map drops what is not a company any more, or never was one: entries dissolved or merged into another company (Agrium, which became Nutrien in 2018), and foundations, health authorities, universities and even a tax that had slipped in through the country tables. What was removed, and why, is listed in data/firmen-entfernt.json
• Trade Chain tree: strait names carry a dark outline so they stay readable over land, the pointer turns into a hand over them, steps 1 and 2 have their own Clear-all button, and the switch in step 3 no longer drags a tooltip along

Fixed

• Three revenue figures that are wrong in the source are no longer shown: CATL's 2023 revenue (Wikidata carries yuan as dollars), Cargill's group revenue attached to its aquaculture subsidiary, and a Croatian machine builder at 70 billion. No number is put in their place — an honest gap instead of an estimate
• A full run of the location build no longer loses the companies that were added by hand afterwards — 84 index companies had dropped out

20 September 202610:12auslieferung-20260920-1012

Commodity companies, industry map, trade-chain tree

Added

• 119 commodity companies added to the Companies map — the largest miners, smelters, refiners, plantations and traders that the size thresholds had left out: Zijin, Teck, Southern Copper, First Quantum, Antofagasta's peers, Korea Zinc, Yunnan Tin, Lynas, MP Materials, Ganfeng, Tianqi, SQM, Nutrien, OCP, Wilmar, Olam, Viterra, Sime Darby, JBS's competitors and more. Each with industry code, sector, home country and, where a report exists, its figures from SEC filings
• The empty Companies tab of the Macro Terminal is now the industry map: all 70 industries as a mindmap, by type and by how many cents of raw materials a dollar of their output needs, with the companies behind each one

Improved

• Producers per commodity in the DESK Radar are now complete for tin, zinc, lithium, rare earths, fertiliser, palm oil, sugar, coffee, cocoa and fish, where the lists used to be short or empty
• Company figures: a filer whose CIK is missing in Wikidata is now found through the SEC's own ticker directory, so its revenue, assets and profit series are read; 15 of the new companies get a DESK score from them
• Trade Chain tree: the imagery selector stays in place when countries are picked; sea routes are thinner and darker; a strait's name turns gold when pointed at; routes follow the largest trade flows instead of list order and no longer stay missing when the port data arrives late; the map colours the buyers picked in step 2 instead of a fixed top ten; step 3 has a switch between all dependent companies and those headquartered in the selected countries

Fixed

• Home country: the seat of the head office decides, not the first of several country entries — Nutrien stood under Australia, Valterra under France, Viterra under Canada
• Seed breeders no longer count as producers of the crop (the rule existed but never worked — a control character had slipped into it)

19 September 202622:36auslieferung-20260919-2236

Fourth check: newest trade year, named producers, buyers, price label, size indicators out of the score

Improved

• DESK Radar commodities now use the newest world trade year (2024) for every commodity — crude oil, gold, coal and others had still shown their 2021–2023 export shares
• Buyers: industries that also produce the commodity (e.g. copper rolling mills) now appear as buyers
• "Who is hit hardest": the price line names the price series itself (copper ore shows the copper price as "Copper")

Fixed

• Producers per commodity: the largest producers and traders are named directly (e.g. Vale, Rio Tinto and Fortescue for iron ore; Codelco, Freeport and BHP for copper; Yara, Mosaic and CF Industries for fertiliser); keyword matches only count within the producing industry. Steel mills no longer appear under iron ore, pharma groups under fertiliser, Unilever or Hershey under grain, sugar or cocoa; lists that would have been filled with unrelated companies are left short instead
• DESK Score for countries: monthly exports and reserves in absolute money, monthly oil output and two long historical GDP-per-capita series no longer count — the score measures conditions, not size, and income was counted twice

19 September 202622:18auslieferung-20260919-2218

Third logic check: score history, comparison groups, plausible margins, sectors as at the exchanges, lithium ore name

Improved

• Company sectors: company pages, tables and sector rankings in the macro terminal now use the same sector as the DESK Score — as at the stock exchanges: Walmart and supermarkets under consumer staples, McKesson and health insurers under health care, Alphabet and Meta under communication services, carmakers under consumer discretionary, household-appliance makers (Whirlpool, Midea, Panasonic) under consumer discretionary, entertainment and music under communication services

Fixed

• Macro terminal: the commodity "Rare earth ores" is now called "Rare-earth & lithium ores" there too
• DESK Score history: a year's value no longer uses twelve-month figures that reach into the following year
• DESK Score comparison ("better than x % of its industry"): the table now shows exactly the group the rank was computed in
• DESK Score: net or operating profit above 100 % of revenue (one-off gains or reporting errors) and equity above total assets no longer count in the comparison; real losses and negative equity still do
• Live Nation now counts as a concert promoter, not an amusement park

19 September 202622:05auslieferung-20260919-2205

Second logic check DESK Radar: honest commodity names and prices, headline matching, score sectors and rates

Improved

• DESK Score: change over five years is measured in percentage points for rates and shares (inflation, unemployment, tax), in percent only for amounts; internet platforms (Alphabet, Meta, Tencent, Baidu …) are compared within communication services, delivery and booking platforms within consumer discretionary, as at the stock exchanges; farms now belong to consumer staples
• DESK Radar explanations use the purchase share of the commodity itself; older cached explanations are rewritten

Fixed

• DESK Radar: "Rare earth ores" is now called "Rare-earth & lithium ores" — the customs code behind it (HS 2530) mostly carries lithium ore (spodumene from Australia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria), not rare earths alone
• DESK Radar prices: fertiliser now follows the DAP price (the traded product is compound fertiliser, HS 3105) instead of urea; fish no longer shows the fishmeal price, which is animal feed and not the same good
• World Bank outlook: forecast years are taken from the report's own marking, not from their position in the table
• Company news in DESK Radar only counts headlines that name the company itself — an article that merely mentions it in the text no longer lands under that company
• Country filter in DESK Radar also finds major events for the second country named; the seasonal norm of a strait states the correct number of years
• Trade Chain and privacy page: UN Comtrade is no longer named — the trade data come from CEPII BACI

19 September 202621:48auslieferung-20260919-2148

Logic check DESK Radar: detailed BEA purchases, fiscal-year TTM, recession alerts, filter fix

Added

• DESK Radar SEC reports now show the company's figures, sites and news topics

Improved

• DESK Radar "Who is hit hardest": purchases now come from the detailed US use table (402 industries) instead of whole raw-material industries. Before, fertiliser was bought mainly by plastics makers, iron ore by cement plants, and refined copper, aluminium or nickel counted as "mining" — now farms buy fertiliser, steel mills buy iron ore, metal and vehicle makers buy aluminium. Figures are direct purchases per dollar of output, carried forward with the yearly tables to 2024
• DESK Radar: gold, silver, platinum, rare-earth ores, uranium and lithium show no buyer list, with the reason — their trade figures cannot be tied to the industries that use them
• DESK Radar company news: an SEC filing only counts as evidence when it matches the topic (e.g. restructuring costs for job cuts), and a stock exchange transfer never does

Fixed

• DESK Radar: a commodity's share of its product line is measured against the whole line in world trade, not only against the commodities DESK lists (fertiliser was 100 % of all chemicals before)
• Trailing twelve months from SEC filings now start after the company's own fiscal year end — for Oracle, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Nvidia and others, quarters had been counted twice
• DESK Radar economic cycle: a country entering recession after a first quarter of contraction is reported again (it dropped out before); regions and income groups no longer appear as countries
• The filters "Under strain / Expanding / Easing" in DESK Radar did nothing when clicked
• "−0 %" in the impact table; fallback producer lists no longer claim these companies sell the commodity

19 September 202621:05auslieferung-20260919-2105

Industries for 580 companies without a code

Improved

• Company industries: about 580 companies that had no industry at all now carry one, each placed by its actual business, e.g. Panasonic as electronics, Fraport and Aena as airport operators, Citgo and Orlen Lietuva as refineries, Lactalis as food, Knauf as building materials, the Swiss watchmakers as instruments. Conglomerates without one main business (Samsung, Tata, Mitsui) deliberately stay without an industry rather than a wrong one
• The corrected company industries are already in the delivered company data, not only after the next rebuild

19 September 202620:46auslieferung-20260919-2046

All industry codes reviewed by hand, refineries out of the impact list

Improved

• Company industries: every company with an industry code has now been checked by hand — about 660 more corrected, e.g. postal services under couriers, tyre makers under rubber products, supermarkets under food retail, firearms makers under metal products, toy and instrument makers under manufacturing, universities and foundations without an industry code

Fixed

• DESK Radar "Who is hit hardest": refineries are no longer listed as crude-oil buyers — they pass the price on through fuel prices

19 September 202620:33auslieferung-20260919-2033

Industry codes checked by hand, impact history from BEA/SEC, flow filter on trade map, DESK summaries for company news, badge fix

Added

• DESK Radar "Who is hit hardest": history for every number — the purchase share per year since 1997 (US input-output tables, refreshed automatically when the BEA publishes a new year), and net margin and share of profit per quarter from SEC filings (per year from official reports otherwise); charts open and close with the ladder animation
• DESK Radar strait and commodity: a click on a single flow opens the trade-flow map with only that arrow, "Trade flows" shows exactly those flows from all exporters; buyer countries open their country page
• DESK Radar company news: headlines stay under Evidence; "What it means" carries a short DESK summary of what they report

Improved

• Company industries: about 310 companies checked by hand and corrected against the official SEC industry codes and their actual business — e.g. Cencora and Cardinal Health as pharma wholesalers, refiners (Valero, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66) as refineries, Medtronic, Stryker and Boston Scientific as medical devices, Aldi, Lidl's owner Schwarz Group, Tesco and Carrefour as food retail, Gazprom as oil and gas, DoorDash and Airbnb as internet platforms. The corrections are applied on every rebuild
• Trade-flow map: the flow window now says which period each number covers (total trade for one month from the IMF, commodities for a whole year from CEPII BACI)

Fixed

• Switching "Only major economies" no longer makes the DESK Radar number in the sidebar appear

19 September 202620:01auslieferung-20260919-2001

Tooltips above the info window

Fixed

• DESK Radar "Who is hit hardest": the explanations on the column headers now appear on hover — they were hidden behind the window

19 September 202618:37auslieferung-20260919-1837

Radar explanations and impact popup, strait tiles, company news sources, weekly score point, tree map routes/background/chips

Added

• DESK Radar "Who is hit hardest": a plain-language summary at the top, the calculation behind a fold-out, an explanation on every column header, a search field for buyers and for producers instead of "Show all", a wider window, and a click on a number shows how it developed (price change month by month, net margin and share of profit per year — from real series only; the purchase share has no history). Company names open the company page. When the price has fallen although supply is under pressure, a line says why the numbers are green
• DESK Score history: the current year now has its own point — today's score, updated once a week

Improved

• DESK Radar companies: one "Show all" opens both lists at once
• DESK Radar strait and commodity: three clear tiles with a sentence each, the year of the trade data, all buyer countries in a scrollable list with a note on why a country can be missing, and a click on a flow or on "Trade flows" opens the trade-flow map with that exporter and commodity
• DESK Radar company news: the headlines themselves now stand under "What it means", with a button that scrolls down to all sources
• DESK Radar: the "Explain" text is more precise — concrete numbers, what matters and how to read the sheet
• DESK Radar: comparisons in "Strengths and weak points" are loaded in the background, and the server keeps its overview fresh so clicks no longer wait
• Trade-Chain tree map: thinner, darker sea routes like the world-map overlay; routes can be clicked (value, share of the buyer's imports, straits, length, link to the trade-flow map); background imagery selectable; with many countries only eight chips and "+ N more"; removing a country in step 1 also removes it under the country search; the map note names the resource

19 September 202616:35auslieferung-20260919-1635

Radar: red major events, commodity-specific headlines, impact ranking, strait x commodity view, numbers behind company news

Added

• DESK Radar: major events in red — a war or attack between states where one side is a G20 or nuclear power, a WHO pandemic declaration, the insolvency of one of the 100 largest companies, or the closure of a major strait. Detected automatically from the headlines, only when coverage is bigger than on any day of the previous month and at least 0.5 % of all news (calibrated on the invasion of Ukraine, the WHO pandemic declaration and Israel's strikes on Iran). A red number next to DESK Radar that pulses ten times, a red band at the top of the page, and a sheet with the key facts of the countries involved: economy, exports with world share, largest companies based there and companies with the most sites there
• DESK Radar commodities: companies can be ranked by impact of the measured price change — the industry's purchases of the raw material, the commodity's share of it, set against each company's own net margin (an estimate, clearly marked)
• DESK Radar: a strait and a commodity together — how much of the commodity passes the strait (estimated from bilateral trade on the usual sea routes), the largest flows, which buyers depend on it, and what "tankers 60 %" means in plain words
• DESK Radar company news: the numbers behind the headline — jobs cut and share of the workforce, deal value or fine against revenue and profit, and unemployment in the countries where the company has sites

Improved

• DESK Radar commodities: headlines now only when they name the commodity itself; the reports from supplier countries stay linked as the reason

19 September 202615:40auslieferung-20260919-1540

Tree map routes like the overlay, map search and chips like the top search, smaller HQ dots, select-all step colours, show fewer, dependency without step 1

Added

• Tree step 2 without step 1: "By dependency" ranks countries by the share of the resource in their total imports, shown next to each country

Improved

• Trade-Chain tree map: trade routes drawn like the sea corridors of the world-map overlay — a thin blue line, strait names at a fixed size that stays the same when zooming
• Tree map: the country search and its list look exactly like the country search at the top of the tree; picked countries appear as the same chips as on the other maps, and name and flag turn gold on hover and open the country page
• Tree map: headquarters dots slightly smaller
• Tree steps 1 and 2: "Select all" is framed in the step's colour when active (blue in step 1, green in step 2); "Show fewer" now collapses the list to ten rows even when more countries are selected

19 September 202615:25auslieferung-20260919-1525

Company score by industry/sector without gaps, sector review, SEC 3.01 read from the filing, dossier SEC link and meaning, dictionary arrow removed

Added

• DESK Radar dossier: the official filing line links to the filing at the SEC, and "What it means" explains what the reported item means, with every filing listed

Improved

• Company DESK Score: companies are now compared within their industry, or within their sector when the industry has fewer than eight companies — never against all companies. The neighbours list runs without gaps from place 1 (Dillard's: 101 of 233 in consumer discretionary)
• Company sectors re-checked across all eleven sectors against the stock-market convention: the industry code now decides for cars, hotels, food and retail, the company description where the code bundles different businesses (chemicals with pharma, electronics with medical devices, publishing with software); about 360 companies corrected by hand, e.g. supermarkets under consumer staples, homebuilders and cruise lines under consumer discretionary, health insurers under health care, truck and rail makers under industrials
• Country DESK Score: the neighbours list says when only major economies are counted
• The small arrow next to Dictionary links in comparison tables is gone

Fixed

• Universities, health authorities, charities and foundations no longer appear in the company ranking
• DESK Radar: for a "notice of delisting" filing the text of the filing is now read. Voluntary moves to another exchange (Dillard's, Energy Transfer, Sunoco, Kraft Heinz to the Texas Stock Exchange) and delistings after a takeover no longer show as "under strain"

19 September 202614:56auslieferung-20260919-1456

Industry re-check for all companies, Deutsche Boerse symbols for charts, tree map shipping lanes and ranking by dependency

Added

• Company pages: German shares get their current trading symbol from the Deutsche Börse lists (Xetra, Börse Frankfurt), so charts appear for companies like Uniper

Improved

• Company industries re-checked for all 5,027 companies: official SEC industry codes now count alongside Wikidata, industry entries weigh more than generic company types, and several keyword rules were fixed (film distribution is media, hospitality is not a hospital, fast food is restaurants). 279 companies moved to the right comparison group — e.g. Netflix and Disney now sit together under film, hotel chains under hotels, Visa under payments
• Trade-Chain tree map: routes now follow the shipping lanes of the world-map overlay with straits marked, the map is larger, selected countries appear as removable chips with Clear all, a smaller country search on the left, smaller dots with a gold ring on hover
• Trade-Chain tree: step 2 can be ranked by dependency; Select all keeps lists collapsed and shows the step colour when active; long country lists no longer fill the step 2 title
• DESK Radar: "Listed companies only" without a tick box, gold frame when active

19 September 202614:14auslieferung-20260919-1414

Tree map trade routes and search, select all, show all buyers, clear all

Added

• Trade-Chain tree map: typical trade routes from supplier to buyer ports through the sea straits, straits clickable; country search on the map; bigger company dots; each industry can be switched on and off in the legend
• Trade-Chain tree: "Select all" in steps 1 and 2, "Show all" in step 2 now lists up to 40 buyers (latest year), "Clear all" for the countries in step 3; "Listed companies only" turns purple in the tree

19 September 202613:31auslieferung-20260919-1331

Tree map and sea straits polish, listed-only tick box

Improved

• Tree map: company dots keep their size when zooming and get a gold ring on hover; the legend names each industry colour; clicking a selected country on the map deselects it again
• Tree sea straits: only routes that pass a strait are listed, with flags and links to the country pages; each strait opens the same info sheet as on the world maps; connecting lines and a frame like the steps

Fixed

• Tree: the country menu in step 3 closes after a pick; step 4 no longer repeats supplier/site notes
• "Listed companies only": the tick sits in its box again, like "Skip this step"

19 September 202610:37auslieferung-20260919-1037

Background preloading, sidebar reorder, macro news without jump, tree straits and map fixes

Added

• Trade-Chain tree: sea straits on the typical route between supplier and buyers with last week's ship counts; with step 2 skipped, dependent companies are shown worldwide

Improved

• Faster start: DESK Journal, Radar, everyday prices, news feed, Macro News, Dictionary, Market Geometry, Portfolio and Trade-Chain data now load in the background after sign-in; the Radar score is ready right after a server restart instead of up to five minutes later
• Sidebar reordered: News, Knowledge & Analysis (with the Dictionary), Automation, My Desk (DESK Journal, Portfolio, Life & Spirit), Trading Infrastructure
• "Listed companies only" shows a tick when active
• Tree map: company dots in their industry colours and sized to the zoom, reset-zoom button, crosshair without lines, gradient legend as a bar, selected countries always outlined on top, no page jump when clicking

Fixed

• Macro Terminal: switching Countries/Markets swaps only the news tile — no more jump

19 September 202610:02auslieferung-20260919-1002

Tree: all-steps map below step 4, radar box removed from the Trade-Chain

Added

• Trade-Chain tree: new closing map "All steps on one map" below step 4 — supplier countries from step 1 in red, the buyers from step 2 from blue to yellow by their share of imports of the resource from the suppliers, and the headquarters and sites of the step-3 companies as dots; each layer can be switched off in the legend; centred with a grey frame

Improved

• Trade-Chain tree: step 4 title names its map (Company map)
• Trade-Chain: the DESK Radar box is removed from this page again (the Radar itself is unchanged)

19 September 202609:27auslieferung-20260919-0927

Steadier country score, resource radar and all-resources production in the Trade-Chain, tree map and axis labels, portfolio lock

Added

• Trade-Chain: DESK Radar reports on the selected resource (the commodity, its producers, the sea routes it travels and countries where it is a major export), one click to the Radar sheet

Improved

• Country DESK Score: steadier — the company part only counts from three companies on and grows in weight up to ten; daily radar reports move a score by about two points at most
• Trade-Chain tree: picking a country in the search turns "Skip this step" off and selects it; matrix axes are labelled at the axes; a small world map in step 4 shows the selected supplier countries in red and the companies' home and site countries from blue to yellow by their share of imports from them
• News: "Listed companies only" sits next to the feed menu
• Portfolio: shown with the DESK Pro mark; opens only with DESK Pro

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: the production map now works under "All resources"
• Macro Terminal: switching between Countries and Markets no longer jumps to the top

19 September 202609:08auslieferung-20260919-0908

Listed filter in news, full earnings DESK Pro field, own macro news on the dashboard, Crime & Justice charts

Added

• News: "Listed companies only" switch for the company feed

Improved

• Earnings: the striped DESK Pro field now fills the whole Earnings column and also shows while no earnings data is available
• Macro Terminal dashboard: Macro News now come from DESK's own news feed — economy-related country news and markets, with country flags that open the country page; Telegram channels removed

Fixed

• Country pages: the Crime & Justice tile now opens with charts for homicide rates, political stability and prisons instead of an empty window
• News feed: the same wire story from different stations is shown once

19 September 202608:42auslieferung-20260919-0842

Context-aware country reports, two charts per commodity, grouped company news, DESK Pro fixes, tree fixes

Added

• Radar: every commodity with a price now shows two charts — World Bank outlooks now cover grains, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, coal and more; without an outlook the second chart shows the change vs a year earlier

Improved

• Radar: country reports now show the figures that fit the report — violence: security situation (conflict deaths, homicide rate, stability, military); unrest: political situation; interest rates: money and prices; business cycle: economy; blockades and sanctions: trade and supply. Commodities and companies only where they belong
• News: each company article is shown once with all companies it names (up to five, then "Show all"); companies whose name is an ordinary word (Visa, Target, Shell …) only count when the headline names them; crime and lifestyle pieces dropped from the company feed
• Everyday prices: slower opening and a matching closing animation

Fixed

• DESK Pro mark: fixed height and centred text everywhere; the striped DESK Pro field now covers the whole tile, also for Earnings
• Trade-Chain tree: Clear all no longer shifts the search fields; company name and dot highlight together in the matrix; step 3 country search with several countries as removable chips; question mark explaining the DESK score; "Listed companies only" without a tick box

19 September 202608:04auslieferung-20260919-0804

Currency search, radar quality filter, news chips, earnings flap, tree fixes

Added

• Everyday prices: the currency menu now has a search field and lists every currency (the ten common ones first)

Improved

• Radar: stricter quality filter — stock tips, "stocks to buy" lists, price-comparison pieces and franchisee stories are dropped
• News: "This week" filters in one row per group, DESK Pro items as non-clickable chips with one DESK Pro mark at the top
• Earnings: DESK Pro flap covers the whole panel

Fixed

• Charts: the crosshair dot now sits exactly on the line
• Radar: the sidebar count and the "New" marks under Most recent now follow the same rule
• Radar: unlisted companies show "Not listed" instead of a missing score; flags fixed for companies like Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, PetroChina, Unilever
• Trade-Chain tree: steady checkboxes, "Listed companies only" with a checkbox at the top right of step 3, shorter step texts, clickable company names in the matrix, crosshair shows revenue only, country search in step 3, Taiwan named correctly

19 September 202607:25auslieferung-20260919-0725

Radar filters and unlisted companies, producer reports, news filter blocks, everyday-price dropdown and animation, tree points 1-13, subscriber-facing notes

Added

• DESK Radar: New "Listed companies only" switch hides reports on companies without a stock listing.
• DESK Radar: Commodity sheets list the latest reports on their producers, listed or not (e.g. Saudi Aramco under crude oil).
• DESK Radar: Agricultural goods without named producers show agribusiness, traders and processors instead (e.g. 46 for rice).

Improved

• Everyday prices: The currency menu is the DESK dropdown with the staggered animation, with ten currencies.
• Everyday prices: Opening a country unfolds its chart with an animation; the chart sits on the window background instead of a grey box.
• DESK Radar: "Only major economies" now filters the reports as well, not only the score scale.
• DESK Radar: Unlisted companies are marked "Not listed", and their score says so instead of "not enough current figures".
• DESK Radar: Company lists in commodity sheets open to their full length; empty lists are left out.
• News: "This week" filters: the available ones on the left, everything that comes with DESK Pro in one block on the right, without a badge on every chip.
• Trade chain tree: "Skip this step" is a checkbox.
• Trade chain tree: Skipping step 1 keeps step 2, which then lists the largest buyers worldwide.
• Trade chain tree: Step 3 and 4 titles and hints no longer repeat the country names; industry colour dots next to the company names.
• Trade chain tree: Step 4 uses the full width, has a frame with a crosshair, names at the largest dots, stays purple and also appears when step 2 is skipped.
• Texts: Notes about free sources, keys and servers are gone from the pages; features that need licensed data say "comes with DESK Pro".

18 September 202622:17auslieferung-20260918-2217

Everyday prices: expandable table, currency menu, price level vs EU, BLS in sources

Added

• Everyday prices: A currency menu converts petrol, diesel, heating-oil, electricity and gas prices into any currency DESK knows (ECB rate of each day, today's rate for the others).
• Sources: Added the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; the EIA and Eurostat entries now name the price data they supply.

Improved

• Everyday prices: The window is now a single table; clicking a country opens its history as a large chart right below the row, and clicking again closes it.
• Everyday prices: Food, clothing and air fares now show the price level against the EU average (Eurostat) instead of a bare index, plus the change over twelve months; the chart shows the change against the 2025 average.
• Everyday prices: The DESK Pro line in the window is gone.

18 September 202622:02auslieferung-20260918-2202

Everyday prices by country in the Radar, tree step 4 and industry filter, listed-only switch moved, unique score places

Added

• DESK Radar: everyday prices: In a commodity's "Where it ends up in everyday life", the items with data are now clickable: petrol and diesel, heating oil, air fares, electricity, household and industrial gas, food, bread, pasta, cereals and rice, cooking oil, sugar, chocolate, coffee, meat, beef, clothing, chemicals and plastics.
• DESK Radar: everyday prices: A window shows every country with data, most expensive first, with the change over twelve months; clicking a country draws its history.
• Trade chain tree: New step 4, "How much they depend on it": companies by industry (cents of the raw material per dollar of output) and revenue, ranked by how much of its imports the home country takes from the selected supplier countries, with known sites there.
• Trade chain tree: Industry chips above the companies filter them to the producers, the same industry or one of the dependent industries.

Improved

• DESK Radar: everyday prices: Petrol, diesel and heating oil are real pump prices in €/L (EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, weekly, and U.S. EIA); electricity and gas are real prices in ct/kWh (Eurostat, U.S. EIA). Where no free price per country exists, a price index (Eurostat HICP, U.S. BLS) is ranked by its twelve-month change.
• DESK Radar: everyday prices: Worldwide prices for all countries remain DESK Pro.
• Trade chain tree: Clicking the pre-selected country deselects it; with no country left the step is skipped.
• Trade chain tree: The "Listed companies only" switch moved out of the header into the company map and tree step 3.

Fixed

• Country DESK Score: Every place in the ranking now appears exactly once; ties are broken by the unrounded score.

18 September 202621:17auslieferung-20260918-2117

Uniform DESK Pro mark, Unemployment Claims first, company page link in the news feed, country DESK Score spread and weights

Added

• News: A company or country picked in the news feed gets a "Go to company page" / "Go to country page" link next to the filter.

Improved

• DESK Pro mark: One DESK Pro mark everywhere, the same as on the pricing page: "DESK" light, "PRO" on gold, as a pill.
• News: "Unemployment Claims" is the first of the extra releases and selected by default; the three DESK Pro releases follow it.
• Country DESK Score: Scores no longer bunch between 39 and 61; they now run from about 16 to 81.
• Country DESK Score: The standing today now carries the score (55 %), the five-year trend adds to it (20 %), companies 15 %, current reports 10 %.
• Country DESK Score: Standing is the rank of a country's average among all countries; before that, the average is pulled towards 50 in proportion to how many indicators a country has, so a territory with 20 figures no longer outranks one with 94.

Fixed

• Country DESK Score: A part without data (no companies in the database) is no longer counted as 50; the other parts weigh more. The score table shows the weights actually used.
• Country DESK Score: The score history uses the same formula for every year.

18 September 202620:57auslieferung-20260918-2057

News feed from GDELT instead of Telegram, DESK Pro mark only, Fed rate results and Medium releases in the calendar, tree step skipping, MDAX/SDAX report templates and index members

Added

• News: live feed instead of Telegram channels: The Telegram/Fin_Watch channels are replaced by a running news feed from the GDELT Project (the same source as the Radar).
• News: live feed instead of Telegram channels: The dropdown filters All, Companies, Countries, Commodities and Markets; tags under each headline narrow the feed to one country, commodity or company.
• Economic calendar: The Fed Funds Rate decision shows its result (target range from FRED) after 14:00 New York on decision day.
• Economic calendar: Medium-impact U.S. releases with free data (jobless claims, personal income/spending, durable goods, new home sales, HPI, goods trade balance) and the unemployment rate and core CPI are now in the calendar.
• Trade chain tree: Steps 1 and 2 can be skipped: go from the resource straight to the companies, or from the first countries straight to step 3.
• Germany: MDAX and SDAX: Report templates for Lufthansa, Porsche AG, Porsche SE, Salzgitter, Evotec, Friedrich Vorwerk, Hypoport, Eckert & Ziegler, KSB, Kontron, SFC Energy and Medios (figures from the companies' own annual and interim reports).
• Germany: MDAX and SDAX: All remaining MDAX and SDAX members are now in the company universe; their figures come from Wikidata, SEC and, for Redcare, tonies, Shelly and RTL, from ESEF filings. Their IR pages load reports only via JavaScript, so no template is possible yet.

Improved

• DESK Pro mark: Every DESK Pro placeholder now shows only the DESK Pro mark under the gold line; the explanatory subtexts ("licensed market data" etc.) are gone, including Stock & Valuation.
• DESK Pro mark: Earnings carries the DESK Pro mark (licensed data needed); Portfolio shows the mark in the sidebar, the desk role keeps full access.
• News: live feed instead of Telegram channels: Headlines are filtered by GDELT themes: country news needs at least two strong themes (conflict, sanctions, elections, trade, energy, central banks); commodities and markets need an economic theme and market wording. Syndicated duplicates appear once.
• News: live feed instead of Telegram channels: The feed backfills the last hour on start, so it is never empty after a restart.
• Economic calendar: Filters without a free data source (Low impact, non-USD currencies, crude/natural gas inventories) carry the DESK Pro mark.
• Trade chain tree: Clear all also resets the countries selected in the steps.

18 September 202619:14auslieferung-20260918-1914

Listed-only switch, dedicated page for unlisted companies, price-based figures under DESK Pro, SEC CIK/headcount/CEO enrichment

Added

• Listed companies only: A new switch on the companies map and in the trade chain hides companies without a stock listing. It applies to the map, the ranking, both attractiveness matrices and the chain's companies, and the page remembers the choice.
• Companies without a stock listing: Their page is built for them: - a profile with a short description, industry, headquarters, founding year, leadership, employees, parent and owners, sites, LEI and website - only the figures that exist, each with its year - a short note on why there is less
• More data from free sources: 138 US-listed companies got their SEC number (CIK) from the SEC's ticker list. Their pages now load SEC figures.
• More data from free sources: Headcount and CEO read from the latest annual report filed with the SEC (10-K, 20-F, 40-F), used only from reports since 2023: - 831 companies got a headcount - 620 got a CEO

Improved

• Companies without a stock listing: Chapters that cannot apply are left out: quarters, stock, safety and outlook.
• Companies without a stock listing: Without figures, the header shows what the company is instead of an empty chart.
• Share-price figures under DESK Pro: Market value, P/E, PEG, P/B, P/S and dividend yield are always under the DESK Pro cover, including the few dated market values from Wikidata. The P/E history and the market-cap column of the ranking are too.
• More data from free sources: Among SEC filers, headcount is now known for 81 % instead of 36 %, and leadership for 82 % instead of 33 %.

18 September 202618:23auslieferung-20260918-1823

Company pages: annual report figures from ESEF and German reports, 2,458 LEIs, management fallback for CEO, derived liabilities, gaps sorted with DESK Pro covers

Added

• More figures from annual reports: Company pages now show figures from EU and UK annual reports (ESEF) and from German company reports. Before, only the DESK Score used them. 510 companies without SEC filings now show reported figures, many up to 2025, for example Glencore, Stellantis, Samsung and Volkswagen.
• More figures from annual reports: 2,458 companies now have a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), mostly from Wikidata. With it, annual reports were found for 478 companies instead of 332.
• More figures from annual reports: Where Wikidata names no CEO, the page shows the managing director or the chair with that role (378 companies).
• More figures from annual reports: Missing liabilities are now worked out as total assets minus equity.

Improved

• Clear gaps: In each group of figures, filled values come first. Missing figures from free sources follow, greyed out.
• Clear gaps: Figures that need licensed share prices come last under a "DESK Pro" cover: market value, P/E, PEG, P/B, P/S, dividend yield and price targets.
• Clear gaps: Companies without a stock listing show no price-based tiles at all. Stock & valuation says so instead.

18 September 202617:49auslieferung-20260918-1749

Dictionary link in the comparison column header, back to DESK Radar from the Dictionary

Added

• Coming from the Radar, the Dictionary shows "Back to DESK Radar". It returns to the Radar with the company sheet still open.

Improved

• Radar industry comparison: the Dictionary link now sits in the header of the figure's column, for example "Equity ratio ↗". The window title is plain text again.

18 September 202617:43auslieferung-20260918-1743

Radar comparison links to companies and Dictionary, 606 more company industries for the trade chain, tree ranks and alternative suppliers, journal folder move, resource search fix

Added

• Radar: In the industry comparison, every company opens its company page.
• Radar: The name of the figure, such as Equity ratio or Operating margin, opens its Dictionary entry.
• Radar: New in the Dictionary: Company Age, Site Network and Multinational Corporation.
• Trade chain: 606 more companies now have an industry: 4,017 of 4,995 instead of 3,411. The chain finds more companies that depend on a resource. - 282 got it from the SEC's industry code, used only from companies that filed with the SEC since 2020 (public domain). - 94 got it from a clear company name, such as "Osaka Gas" or "Xinyu Iron and Steel". - 230 got it from further Wikidata industry entries, such as "weapons industry" or "mass media". - The profile build repeats this on every rebuild.
• Journal: In the trade table, the folder is a menu. Pick another folder to move the trade there.

Improved

• Trade chain: Tree: - Behind each country it shows its place in occurrence and exports, for example Iran: occurrence #7 · export #125. This shows when a large producer has hardly any exports in the customs data. - Country names open the country page. Only the value opens the history. - Buyers in step 2 fold open to show their five largest other suppliers, where they could switch to. - The dependency share is grey instead of gold. - The lines between the steps are stronger.

Fixed

• Trade chain: Resource search: typing "maize" now shows only the matches, not the whole agriculture group.

18 September 202617:00auslieferung-20260918-1700

Preload all country and company data, hover border only on clickable tiles, pulsing matrix selection, comparison popup above the Radar sheet

Improved

• Speed: The Macro Terminal now loads the large shared data sets in the background as soon as it opens: trade, money and refugee flows, conflicts, military, cities, company data and scores.
• Speed: Opening a country loads all of its chapters at the same time, including politics, sanctions, Factbook, trade partners and score history. Switching chapters no longer waits, for example for Top trade flows.
• Speed: Opening a company loads its SEC figures, filings, news, score and the summaries of its management changes.
• Speed: Details of organisations, intelligence agencies and military installations are fetched ahead for the first entries, and for every other entry as soon as the mouse moves over it.
• Pages: Only tiles that open something get the gold border on hover.
• Pages: The search in "Villages & smaller places" appears only in the enlarged view.
• Pages: Attractiveness matrix: the selected company pulses, like the points on the Radar map.

Fixed

• Pages: Radar: the industry comparison of a figure opens in front of the company sheet, not behind it.

18 September 202616:41auslieferung-20260918-1641

Zoom only where it shows more, Radar industry comparison per figure, city house price index, current EPS and book value, expandable earnings releases, trade-chain tree rows and map labels

Added

• Country pages: City housing prices: below the city figures, which are only surveyed every few years, there is now the country's house price index year by year (OECD, real, 2015 = 100).
• Company pages: Earnings releases open a short summary of the 8-K.
• Radar: In a company sheet, click a figure under strengths and weak points, for example the equity ratio. A table opens with the company's own value and its place in the industry, and with the weakest, quartiles, median and best in the industry. It also lists the five best, the companies around it and the five weakest.

Improved

• Enlarging tiles: On country and company pages, the enlarge button now appears only on tiles that show more when enlarged. These are charts, mind maps, matrices, shortened lists, lists with a search, and news and filings.
• Enlarging tiles: Short tiles such as Government Bonds, Elections, Armed Forces, Key Figures and At a Glance no longer have it. Alliances keeps it.
• Enlarging tiles: Enlarged military installations run in columns, so no single row is left on its own. The search stays at the top, and the text no longer blurs.
• Enlarging tiles: Wikidata details for organisations and installations open in a larger window.
• Country pages: Ongoing conflicts: the columns now say what they count. The first is deaths of the whole conflict in that year, in every country. The second is deaths in this country over all years.
• Country pages: Central bank: the currency is shown with the TradingView chart, and its logo sits in the corner instead of the middle of the tile.
• Company pages: Companies map: with a single company selected, the "Largest companies" and "Countries by company headquarters" tiles are no longer shown.
• Trade chain: Combined map: the selected countries sit side by side under the country search, and the background menu no longer moves.
• Trade chain: The country list of the company lists stays open.
• Trade chain: Tree: - A click on a row selects the country. - Flag, name and value turn gold on hover and open the history. - Each step names its map, for example "(Production map)". - A short line with a colour gradient joins each step to the next.

Fixed

• Company pages: Annual values sit at the end of their year and quarterly values at the end of their quarter.
• Company pages: The EPS chart ends with the last twelve months, and book value per share with the latest quarter. For Nvidia both now run into 2026.
• Trade chain: "All resources" in the resource list no longer has a white background.

18 September 202616:07auslieferung-20260918-1607

Readable mind maps, military list with search and details, every SEC filing expandable, aligned matrices, DESK Pro forecast placeholder, trade-chain tree with top-10 lists and multi-select

Added

• Country pages · Military installations: the tile shows ten and "Show all" opens a large view with a search. Each installation opens its Wikidata details: description, kind, founding year, website.
• Company pages: News & filings: every filing opens. - Quarterly and annual reports show that period's reported revenue, operating income, profit and EPS, with the change from a year earlier (SEC XBRL). - Proxy statements list the items on the agenda. - 13D/13G filings show who reports how many shares and what share of the company. - Other filings explain what they are.
• Radar: New placeholder: company forecasts will be available with DESK Pro.
• Trade chain: The tree lists the top 10 in each step, with "Show all". Several countries can be selected in each step, and buyers are added up across all selected sources.

Improved

• Country pages: Mind maps (central bank, geopolitics, conflicts, company relations) are larger with bigger text. Zoom with the mouse wheel right in the tile, drag to move, double-click to reset.
• Country pages: Top resources and "Where people from … live" show ten rows. The enlarged view shows the rest.
• Country pages: The long source note of Mine & refinery production appears only in the enlarged view.
• Country pages: Search fields for cities, villages, companies, organisations and agencies appear only in the enlarged view.
• Company pages: Stock & valuation: charts always come in pairs. Market value and book value per share joined P/E and EPS. A single chart takes the full width.
• Company pages: The Management tile drops the repeated "management change" label, shows up to 20 changes when enlarged and grows instead of shrinking.
• Company pages: The two attractiveness matrices are aligned at the top. The note on the left sits at the bottom.
• Radar: In company sheets, "better than … % of its industry" is set smaller.
• Trade chain: Country and company names turn gold on hover. Values open their history.
• Trade chain: One line in the step's colour now leads from step to step.
• Trade chain: Country boxes: the values of the largest buyers and suppliers open their history. "top 10 · x % of all" now stands to the left of the number.
• Trade chain: Combined map: the selected countries sit under the country search, side by side, and the background menu stays in place.
• Trade chain: "All resources" has a small globe icon.
• Trade chain: The company lists pick a country from a list with flags.

Fixed

• Country pages: An enlarged tile is never smaller than the tile on the page.
• Radar: The enlarged violence table keeps every column heading on one line.
• Trade chain: Switching to the tree no longer moves the "Maps & tables" and "Tree" buttons.

18 September 202615:18auslieferung-20260918-1518

Calmer pages: capped charts, side-by-side pairs, scrollable tiles, filing summaries, organisation details, city price history, emigration, company strengths in the Radar

Added

• Filings and news on company pages: Every SEC filing says in words what it is.
• Filings and news on company pages: Current reports (8-K) open a short summary: the first sentences of each item from the filing itself and the opening of the attached press release. The SEC link stays.
• Filings and news on company pages: Management changes show who joined or left.
• Country pages · Cities: population and price per m², plus a search. A click on the price shows how flat and house prices developed (Eurostat Urban Audit, BEA for US cities). Rents have no history because Eurostat changed their definition.
• Country pages · Society: a new tile shows where people from the country live (UN DESA migrant stock), next to the refugee flows.
• Radar: The company sheet now shows where the company is furthest ahead and furthest behind in its industry, and which topics appear in its headlines, such as AI, cloud or job cuts (counted, not judged).
• Radar: The enlarged violence tile has a country search.

Improved

• Sizes: Charts on country and company pages are at most 230 px tall. Pairs now sit side by side at half width, as on the Safety page: income and balance sheet, quarterly revenue and EPS, margin and revenue growth. The enlarge button shows them large.
• Sizes: Mind maps (relations, geopolitics, currency, conflicts) are capped in height and shown large in the enlarged view.
• Sizes: The two attractiveness matrices (sectors and all companies) sit side by side.
• Sizes: The company head chart is smaller.
• Sizes: Country topic tiles (production, crops, forestry, others, cities and more) show about a dozen rows and scroll inside the tile. The long source text is cut to two lines. Every tile can be enlarged to see everything.
• Sizes: Info cards and enlarged tiles are only as tall as their content.
• Filings and news on company pages: The news list shows about ten articles and scrolls.
• Country pages · Organisations and intelligence agencies: now one entry per line with size and a search. A click shows what the organisation is (description, kind, founding year, seat, current head, website — Wikidata).
• Country pages · Largest companies: each opens its company page. The value is labelled as revenue and opens the financials.
• Country pages · Outlook: no longer shows an empty analyst forecast tile; a one-line note says the forecasts will come with licensed market data.
• Radar: Charts in the detail sheets use the full width.

Fixed

• Sizes: Conflict names in the ongoing-conflicts table are left-aligned.
• Radar: The report chart of a country now runs to today. Before, the hours of the last two days were missing.
• Radar: Evidence lists show up to 30 headlines, newest first. Before, headlines fetched late could push older ones to the top.

18 September 202614:26auslieferung-20260918-1426

Radar: clean charts with crosshair, informative company sheet, full sortable violence list, one-year report archive

Added

• Company sheet in the Radar. It now explains the development, as the commodity sheet does: - What it means: what the headlines report, from how many sources, and whether there is an official filing. - The company in figures: revenue, growth per year, net and operating margin, employees, sites and countries, founding year, plus a revenue chart. - What it depends on: the inputs of its industry per dollar of output, and which of its raw materials are under pressure on the Radar right now. - Where it operates: its countries, and the largest companies in the same industry.

Improved

• Clean charts with crosshair. The DESK Score history, the report charts in country sheets and the revenue chart now use the same chart as the macro terminal. They have a proper value axis, a time axis (plain years for yearly series) and a crosshair, and a moderate size instead of the full width.
• Violence reports: the enlarged tile lists every country where reports are rising, not only ten. It can be sorted by added reporting, rise against the usual level, reports per day or share of the world. Before, the enlarged view closed after every redraw of the Radar; that is fixed.
• Longer report history: the server now keeps a year of daily report counts per country for the charts. The 30-day comparison that decides what is rising stays unchanged.
• Neighbours in the ranking: more space between place and name, the page's own entry framed in gold, no sideways scrolling.

Fixed

• Taiwan now has its name and flag in the Radar.

18 September 202613:56auslieferung-20260918-1356

Trade chain round ZM: supply-chain tree, all resources, company country search, buyer values, chips beside the map controls

Added

• New tree view. A switch at the top of the trade chain page chooses between "Maps & tables" and "Tree". The tree reads from top to bottom: 1. Where the resource comes from: your selected countries, or else the five largest producers. 2. Who buys from the clicked country: its five largest buyers, with their share of its exports. In gold, how much of the buyer's own imports come from that country, which is the dependency. 3. Which companies in the clicked buyer depend on it: raw-material companies and companies of the industries that need the resource most, largest by revenue. Each opens its company page. - A note under level 2 explains that customs data miss goods declared under a third country's name, which matters for sanctioned exporters.
• All resources. A new entry at the top of the resource list combines all four groups.
• Country search for both company lists (dependent industries and raw-material companies). Each company keeps its place in the full list.

Improved

• Largest buyers and suppliers now show a value on the right like every other row: the value of the ten largest partners and their share of the total.
• Combined map. Selected countries now appear side by side to the right of "Clear all" instead of stacked under the search field. The background dropdown stays in place.
• Trade-chain matrix. The size selection is gone here, and the matrix shows all companies of the chain.

18 September 202613:05auslieferung-20260918-1305

DESK Score history since 1980, company-specific matrix axes with top-quarter lines, clearer radar charts

Added

• DESK Score over the years. Every country and company now has its score history, countries back to 1980 and companies as far as their reported figures go. Each year uses the same formula with the figures of that year: - Standing and trend come from the macro terminal's yearly series. - Companies come from their own figures up to that year, ranked within their industry. - The home country counts with its score of that year. - Reports exist only for today, so in past years they count as 50, as does anything else that is missing. The page says so under the chart. - The history is shown in the Radar sheet and on the country and company pages.
• Enlarged violence tile: the countries can now be clicked there too. The large view closes and opens the country's sheet.

Improved

• Clear chart titles in the Radar. The chart in a country sheet was only called "History" and was easy to mistake for the score. It now says what it shows: reports per day, conflict deaths per year, GDP growth by quarter or the policy rate.
• Attractiveness matrix with company-specific axes. The x-axis used to be the "environment" part of the score. For most companies that is simply their home country, so all US companies without their own reports sat on one vertical line. - The axes are now growth & reach (revenue growth, size, countries, sites, listings) and profitability & strength (margins, equity ratio, revenue per employee, valuation, track record). Both are ranks within the industry. - The dividing lines now mark the top quarter of all companies, so the green field holds only the companies that are in the best quarter on both axes. - New option: largest 20.

18 September 202612:45auslieferung-20260918-1245

Trade chain round ZL: top-10 partner lists with places, expandable buyers/suppliers, synced zoom, combined-map header

Added

• Country tables: The largest buyers and largest suppliers can now be expanded like export and import, each with value and share.
• Charts and maps: With the crosshair switched on, zooming or panning one of the four small maps moves all four to the same view.

Improved

• Country tables: Expanded export, import, largest-buyer and largest-supplier rows now show a place number (1, 2, 3 …) on the left, and they list the ten largest partners instead of five.
• Country tables: In these lists the flag works like the name: a click on either one selects the country.
• Country tables: The expand arrow turns gold on hover.
• Country tables: The trade data now keeps the ten largest partners per good and country instead of six (CEPII BACI rebuild).
• Charts and maps: With countries selected, the import line in the export/import chart is solid instead of dashed.
• Charts and maps: The enlarge button on the line charts turns gold on hover.
• Charts and maps: The legend of the small trade flow map now explains the shades: the darker a country, the larger its surplus (green) or deficit (red); light means nearly balanced.
• Combined map: "Country-specific" moved from the top of the page to the top right of the combined map.
• Combined map: The background dropdown and "Clear all" now sit on the same centre line.

Fixed

• Combined map: Selecting several countries no longer pushes the background dropdown to the right.

18 September 202612:13auslieferung-20260918-1213

Radar: news behind Most recent, names in card heads, compact score; full rankings, enlargeable tiles, cleaner company matrix

Added

• Most recent shows the news behind each entry. A commodity such as crude oil used to appear there without the headline that put it at the top. Now each row shows the newest headline underneath. Commodities show which exporting country the headline comes from.
• The commodity sheet has its own evidence section. It lists the country developments that put pressure on supply, each one clickable, and their headlines with the country named. A commodity now only counts as new when one of these developments has news. A rate decision in the same country no longer counts.
• The violence tile can be enlarged. The large view adds, for each country, the usual daily level, its share of all violence reports worldwide and the last 30 days as a small chart.

Improved

• Card heads show the name. Commodity and country cards show "Crude oil" or "Russia" instead of "Commodities" or "Countries", as company cards already did.
• The Radar shows only the score and the place. The full breakdown now lives on the country and company pages, and a link in the Radar leads there.
• Neighbours in the ranking: - The list now shows the whole ranking, opens at the entry's own place and scrolls up to place 1. - It can be enlarged. - It uses the same place as the score box. Before, it could be one place off when two values were tied. - Company pages now also have this list, with the companies of their comparison group. - The white background behind the names is gone.
• Attractiveness matrix, all companies: - By default it shows the 100 largest companies by revenue. It can be switched to 50, 250 or all. - The axes follow the data, as in the sector matrix, so points no longer pile up in a narrow strip. - The selected company is always shown.
• Score pages refresh every five minutes, the same cycle the server uses to recalculate.

18 September 202611:48auslieferung-20260918-1148

DESK Score: traceable weighted sums, score table with contributions, place shown separately

Added

• The score table is back on company and country pages and in the Radar. It shows every chapter and every row with its weight, value and contribution, the chapter totals and the final sum.
• The place is shown separately: for example "Place 3 of 67 companies in software" and "place 53 of 1410 overall", or "Place 122 of 217 countries".

Improved

• The number is the weighted average of what is shown below it. Before, the average of a company's figures was ranked again within its industry, and the total was ranked a third time. Oracle's figures of around 70 became 94 and then 98, and no one could follow how. Now every chapter is the sum of weight × value of its rows, and the DESK Score is the sum of weight × value of its chapters.
• Missing data counts as 50 and is shown as its own row. This is the same "pull towards the middle" as before, but now it is visible.
• Scores now sit closer together: countries run from about 38 to 62 instead of 1 to 100. In return, a single news item no longer moves a country dozens of places.

Fixed

• Chapter names in the table are translated.

18 September 202611:29auslieferung-20260918-1129

DESK Score: one score everywhere; logic fixes (home country, restart, matrices)

Improved

• The Score chapter of the company page now shows the same breakdown as the Radar: own figures, home country, supply chain and current reports, each with its weight and rank, plus the company's place in its comparison group and overall.
• Company pages keep up with the Radar. The page refreshes the score on the same five-minute cycle as the server.
• Company figures are ranked within their industry (BEA industry with at least eight companies, otherwise all companies), on the same 0–100 scale as the other parts.
• Matrices: the dividing lines now sit at the average of all companies instead of a fixed 70. The axes are "Environment" (home country, supply chain, reports) and "Own figures", both 0–100 with no percent sign.

Fixed

• One number for each company. The company page, the company table and both attractiveness matrices now show the same DESK Score as the Radar. Before, the company page calculated a second, different score in the browser under the same name, so Adidas showed 64 in the Radar and 33 on its company page.
• Home country is now exactly the country's score. Before, a company's home-country part used a provisional value of its country, and that country's score in turn already included its own companies' home-country part, so the country counted itself twice.
• No half score after a restart. Right after the server starts, the country tables are still loading. The score used to be calculated without them for a few minutes, so Germany showed 62 and then 45. Now no score is shown until the full data is there, and it is recalculated as soon as it arrives.
• Development of countries: each indicator is compared as a relative change when all its starting values are positive, and as a difference otherwise, so negative series such as balances no longer flip the sign.
• The labels for company age, sites, countries, listings and valuation in the score breakdown are now translated.

18 September 202610:59auslieferung-20260918-1059

Company figures from own reports for DAX, MDAX and SDAX; index firms in the company universe

Added

• Latest annual and interim figures (revenue, EBIT, net income, total assets, equity) now come straight from the companies' own reports for about 100 DAX, MDAX and SDAX members, read along a checked template per company.
• Interim figures feed the trailing twelve months, so the DESK Score for these companies uses 2026 data.
• MDAX and SDAX members are now part of the company universe even when Wikidata does not list their index membership.

Improved

• Companies whose reports cannot be read reliably (image-set PDFs, bot protection, investor sites that load documents only through a third-party platform) are left out rather than filled with guesses.

Fixed

• Reading is stricter: small numbers in front of a row only count as footnote numbers when the values after them are written with separators, so figures like "93 43" are no longer cut.

18 September 202608:33auslieferung-20260918-0833

Company figures from SEC quarters, ESEF and German report templates; trade-chain round ZK

Added

• Company figures: quarterly SEC filings — the score now uses the last twelve months up to the latest quarter for 806 US-reporting companies
• Company figures: annual reports of European and British companies (ESEF/UKSEF via filings.xbrl.org), 332 companies
• Company figures: German companies read from their own reports along a checked template per company — Adidas and BMW first, more to follow
• Trade-Chain: export and import rows expand into the five largest partner countries with value and share
• Trade-Chain: "Country-specific" also next to "Crosshair", shown only once a country is selected

Improved

• Trade-Chain: largest buyers and suppliers show the top five with flags
• Trade-Chain: export lines green and import lines red with countries selected; trade routes run from green to red
• Trade-Chain: occurrence lines are solid; more flows in country-specific mode; "Clear all" sits right of the imagery choice
• DESK Radar: card headers show only the time next to the score ring and zoom arrow

18 September 202607:32auslieferung-20260918-0732

Score fresh figures and size filter; radar company cards; trade-chain round ZI

Added

• Trade-Chain: "Country-specific" on the trade-flow map shows only the largest flows of the selected countries
• DESK Score: companies without enough current figures show "n/a" with the latest reported year instead of a number

Improved

• DESK Score: only figures from the last two financial years count for companies
• DESK Score: size measures (total GDP, reserves, commodity exports) no longer count, and a chapter needs at least two indicators
• DESK Radar: company cards show the company name at the top and two headlines, the rest in the details
• Trade-Chain: the production chart is called "Production & occurrence of …", occurrence lines are orange and the lines are labelled
• Trade-Chain: expandable rows without counts, partner countries with flags; table headings on one height

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: a selected country keeps its white outline on the combined map even when it is outlined in red or green

17 September 202621:56auslieferung-20260917-2156

DESK Score chapter on the country pages

Added

• DESK Score: every country page now has its own chapter with the score, its parts and the neighbours in the ranking
• A separate endpoint serves the score, so the country page does not have to load the whole radar

17 September 202621:47auslieferung-20260917-2147

DESK Score: companies ranked within their own industry

Improved

• DESK Score: a company is now ranked among the companies of its own industry, not against all companies
• DESK Score: the switch between all countries and the major economies only appears for countries

17 September 202621:43auslieferung-20260917-2143

DESK Score: all indicators, weighted chapters, more company figures, country profile cards

Added

• DESK Score: every country card can be opened from the radar — countries without their own report get a profile card with the score instead of jumping to the country page
• DESK Score: for companies it now also counts age, sites, countries, listings and valuation

Improved

• DESK Score: it now reads every indicator of the macro terminal, not only the yearly series — 157 instead of 103, including taxes, price levels and hours worked
• DESK Score: a chapter now weighs by how many indicators it holds, so a chapter with a single indicator no longer counts as much as one with twenty
• DESK Score: the five-year trend weighs more than the standing (35 % against 25 %)

17 September 202621:29auslieferung-20260917-2129

Fix: combined map back; score scale switch inside the score panel

Improved

• DESK Score: the switch between all countries and the major economies now sits in the score panel itself, top right

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: the combined map is back — a new button class collided with the class of the large map itself

17 September 202621:20auslieferung-20260917-2120

DESK Score: yardstick switch between all countries and the major economies

Added

• DESK Score: a button "only major economies" — the score is then a rank among the 63 major economies instead of all countries with data

17 September 202620:49auslieferung-20260917-2049

DESK Score: a rank from 1 to 100 for countries and companies, built from the yearly series, company figures and current reports

Added

• DESK Score: one number from 1 to 100 for every country and every company, shown as a ring on the radar cards
• DESK Score: the dossier breaks it down into its parts with their weights, the chapters behind them and the data coverage
• DESK Score: current reports move the score — an official filing counts fully, a single-source story or a rumour counts a fraction, and everything fades over the weeks

17 September 202620:32auslieferung-20260917-2032

DESK Radar: full rows, smaller commodity symbols, shorter lists, chart window

Added

• DESK Radar: the price and outlook charts of a commodity can be opened large

Improved

• DESK Radar: each group shows full rows of cards only, so no half-empty row is left
• DESK Radar: the commodity symbols on the map are smaller and shrink when zooming in
• DESK Radar: the country lists of a commodity card show three entries, the rest on click

Fixed

• DESK Radar: the numbers on the large charts are no longer stretched sideways

17 September 202620:12auslieferung-20260917-2012

DESK Radar: most recent list, grouped cards, commodity map, clickable violence rows

Added

• DESK Radar: a "Most recent" list under the map — newest evidence first, unread at the top
• DESK Radar: the cards are grouped into Commodities, Companies, Countries and Trade routes
• DESK Radar: under "Commodities" the map now marks the strained exporting countries with the symbol of the commodity

Improved

• DESK Radar: inside each group the cards run from under strain to easing, newest first
• DESK Radar: every entry carries the date of its newest evidence

Fixed

• DESK Radar: every row of "Where violence reports are rising" is clickable again

17 September 202619:40auslieferung-20260917-1940

Trade-Chain: enlarge charts, expandable group rows, occurrence lines, steady combined map

Added

• Trade-Chain: an enlarge button on every line chart
• Trade-Chain: with an "All …" resource, each row of the country boxes expands into its resources and partners
• Trade-Chain: a dashed occurrence line for every selected country

Improved

• Trade-Chain: shorter occurrence legend entry
• Trade-Chain: the production chart is framed half blue, half orange when it also shows occurrence
• Company matrix: the threshold entry reads "Threshold 70 % · one axis" with its count

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: clicking a country on the combined map no longer moves the page
• Company matrix: no blue frame around the search field

17 September 202618:29auslieferung-20260917-1829

Trade-Chain: all-group entries, averages, crosshair, matrix per selection, four countries

Added

• Trade-Chain: an "All …" entry at the top of each resource group (all metals, all energy, all agriculture, all forestry)
• Trade-Chain: resource symbols in the resource list
• Trade-Chain: "Show all" under every largest-countries table
• Trade-Chain: the production chart shows the occurrence countries among the selected countries

Improved

• Trade-Chain: the page no longer jumps when a country or resource is picked
• Trade-Chain: with several countries the chart headers show the average change, marked "(avg)"
• Trade-Chain: charts have the long crosshair and the value box like all other charts
• Trade-Chain: the attractiveness matrix follows the country selection
• Trade-Chain: at most four countries at a time, their boxes side by side
• Trade-Chain: the net exporter / net importer outlines can be switched on and off in the legend
• Trade-Chain: both search fields use the same text cursor

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: no blue focus frame when clicking chart or matrix elements
• Trade-Chain: the "Largest occurrence" title no longer carries a count

17 September 202617:46auslieferung-20260917-1746

DESK Radar: dossiers with countries, companies, uses and outlooks; map imagery

Added

• DESK Radar: every development opens as a full dossier — what it means, where the good ends up in everyday life, the industries that depend on it most, price and published outlooks, the countries and companies involved as tables, the routes, and the evidence.
• DESK Radar: dossier buttons open the right page with the selection made — the trade chain with the strained exporters or importers, the resource map, the country page chapter, the company page — and the way back reopens the dossier.
• DESK Radar: the world map offers the same imagery as the world maps (satellite, night lights, vegetation, relief, climate zones, time zones).

Improved

• DESK Radar: the picture-of-the-day tiles and the map dots open the dossier directly.
• DESK Radar: a card that is jumped to lights up twice in gold.
• DESK Radar: headlines are smaller and scroll within their card (up to ten).
• DESK Radar: hover boxes on the map use the site's own style.

17 September 202617:34auslieferung-20260917-1734

Trade-Chain: steady page, clear all for resources, line legends, matrix search

Added

• Trade-Chain: the matrix company lists get a search field from eleven companies on.
• Trade-Chain: the combined-map legend explains the green and red country outlines.

Improved

• Trade-Chain: "Clear all" also appears for a resource other than gold and resets it.
• Trade-Chain: chart titles name the selected countries ("Production of Chile").
• Trade-Chain: chart legends and the cursor box show line symbols (solid / dashed) instead of dots.
• Trade-Chain: the combined map shows only the cursor with the crosshair on.

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: the page no longer shifts while data for a new country or resource loads.

17 September 202617:25auslieferung-20260917-1725

DESK Radar: picture of the day, prices and outlooks, map, jumps and way back

Added

• DESK Radar: "The picture right now" — energy, food, metals, hot spots, companies and rates at a glance, each leading to its card.
• DESK Radar: commodity cards show the price (World Bank Pink Sheet) and the published outlooks of the EIA and the World Bank, with source and date, plus the direction of supply pressure.
• DESK Radar: commodity cards list the three largest strained exporters, exporters and importers; trade-route cards list the goods most exposed and the importers affected.
• DESK Radar: jumps go straight to the right place — country page chapter, resource map with the good selected, trade chain — and a "Back to DESK Radar" button returns to the same spot.
• DESK Radar: right-click the sidebar entry to mark everything as read.
• DESK Radar: every card shows the date it refers to.

Improved

• DESK Radar: the world map now uses the same country shapes as the Macro Terminal, zooms with the mouse wheel, drags, and filters the list by country on click.
• DESK Radar: "Where violence reports are rising" ranks countries by how much reporting they add and how strongly it grows; the baseline now covers 30 days.
• DESK Radar: explanations can be hidden again.

Fixed

• DESK Radar: dots sit where they belong (the Strait of Hormuz was drawn inside Iran).
• DESK Radar: headlines about earlier years are left out.

17 September 202617:01auslieferung-20260917-1701

Trade-Chain: chain matrix, per-country charts, outlines, no jumps

Added

• Trade-Chain: attractiveness matrix for all companies of the chain, in the style of the company map.
• Trade-Chain: the production chart gets a second line — production of the countries on the occurrence map.
• Trade-Chain: with countries selected, the production and trade charts show one line per country (imports dashed).
• Trade-Chain: the combined map outlines the countries of the largest trade flows in the net-exporter / net-importer colour.
• Trade-Chain: country boxes can show all companies of the chain headquartered there.

Improved

• Trade-Chain: a selected country without figures still stands at the top of every largest-table, grey, with a dash.
• Trade-Chain: tables and charts are framed all round in the colour of their map.
• Trade-Chain: country boxes close with an × at the top right; "Clear all" only appears when there is something to clear; the crosshair switch sits level with the search fields.
• Trade-Chain: the combined map shows only a small cross instead of lines across the whole map.
• Trade-Chain: "Show all" without a number; the small cross cursor in the charts even with the crosshair off.

Fixed

• Trade-Chain: the page no longer shifts when a resource or country is picked.
• Trade-Chain: the country list no longer shows names on a white background.

17 September 202616:37auslieferung-20260917-1637

DESK Radar: medium-term developments across commodities, companies, countries and trade routes

Added

• DESK Radar (Automation → /radar): one page that shows where things are moving in the medium term — commodities, companies, countries and trade routes — each measured against its own history.
• Radar: armed violence, blockades and unrest per country from GDELT, every 15 minutes, compared week against the month before, with the headlines that name the country.
• Radar: chokepoint traffic against the same weeks of earlier years (IMF PortWatch) — the Strait of Hormuz shows up while it stays below its season.
• Radar: official company events from SEC 8-K filings (agreements, acquisitions, bankruptcy, accelerated debt, restatements) and company headlines about deals, stakes, partnerships, distress, legal action, disruptions and job cuts.
• Radar: rising conflict pace (UCDP), new sanctions listings, business-cycle turns, central-bank rate turns and macro records.
• Radar: "Supply under pressure" for commodities — the share of world exports from strained countries plus disrupted chokepoints weighted by ship type.
• Radar: night-lights world map with the developments, pulse tiles per layer, filters by effect, chokepoints-vs-season list, violence-reporting shares, upcoming dates and an "Explain" button that writes a short factual note.
• Gold badge on the sidebar entry with the number of developments not seen yet.

Improved

• Sources page: GDELT, PortWatch, sanctions lists, BIS and SEC EDGAR now also name their use in DESK Radar.

17 September 202614:21auslieferung-20260917-1421

Trade-Chain: search lists, clear all, highlighted countries

Added

• Trade-Chain: "Clear all" next to the country search, above and on the combined map (both linked).
• Trade-Chain: reset-zoom button on the combined map.

Improved

• Trade-Chain: country and resource search open their lists below the field — countries with flags, small grey names and a pointer; the chosen resource and countries appear as chips below; country chips link to the country page.
• Trade-Chain: chosen countries move to the top of every largest-table, highlighted, with their real rank.
• Trade-Chain: the chain arrows are framed in their colour all the way round.
• Trade-Chain: dependent industries run across the full width, with both company lists side by side below.
• Trade-Chain: combined map controls sit next to its title (resource, countries, imagery); one "Occurrence & production" scale in the legend; thinner dividing line.
• Trade-Chain: normal cursor in the line charts when the crosshair is off; pointer on the "?" symbol.

17 September 202613:23auslieferung-20260917-1323

Trade-Chain: resource picker, country search, imagery on the combined map

Added

• Trade-Chain: resource picker with collapsible groups and a search field; a country search next to it — several countries at once, for all maps, each with its own panel.
• Trade-Chain: the combined map gets imagery (satellite, night lights, …), the resource picker and the country search in its own header, a gold and a blue frame up to the dividing line, and a full legend.
• Trade-Chain: trade routes run from blue (exporter) to red (importer), as on the trade flow map; thicker on the combined map.

Improved

• Trade-Chain: the largest-tables now sit below the maps in the same order (exporters and importers side by side), so the maps are wider.
• Trade-Chain: the export/import chart lines can be switched on and off in its legend.
• Company revenue figures only open a chart where more than one year is known.

Fixed

• Linked line charts: the "not in this range" note no longer leaves the next value in italics.
• Trade-Chain: the "?" explanation on the company map now shows its text.

17 September 202612:41auslieferung-20260917-1241

Trade-Chain: combined map, trade chart with imports, cleaner controls

Added

• Trade-Chain: a combined world map at the bottom — drag the line to compare the resource map (left) with the production map (right), with trade routes and company headquarters on top.
• Trade-Chain: world imports next to world exports in the trade chart.
• Trade-Chain: a small symbol of the chosen resource in the first arrow.

Improved

• Trade-Chain: crosshair as a checkbox; it now also links the two line charts, and shows no coordinates.
• Trade-Chain: smaller crosshair cursor that stays over countries; no reset button (double-click resets the zoom); thinner trade lines.
• Trade-Chain: map titles without the resource name, top-10 tables, flags left of company names, the company-map explanation behind a "?" symbol, fewer hints.

17 September 202611:18auslieferung-20260917-1118

Trade-Chain: all resources, zoom, crosshair, more companies

Added

• Trade-Chain: 453 resources instead of 27 (all minerals, energy, agriculture and forestry products of the resource and production maps).
• Trade-Chain: zoom each map on its own (scroll, drag, double-click or "Reset zoom"), and a crosshair switch that shows the same spot on all four maps.
• Trade-Chain: legend entries of the trade and company maps switch their layer on and off; trade routes have their own entry.
• Trade-Chain: new tables for the largest occurrences and for countries by companies of the chain; flags next to country names; figures open their line chart.
• Trade-Chain: many more companies — producers named for the resource, the rest of their industry, and the dependent industries, each list expandable.
• Attractiveness matrix lists: revenue figures open their line chart.
• Companies map: the matrices follow the countries you click.

Improved

• Sectors by importance: revenue figures turn gold only on hover.
• Sector matrix: smaller dots; a name and its dot light up together.

17 September 202611:03auslieferung-20260917-1103

Consent at sign-up, risk notice, local fonts

Added

• Sign-up: three required boxes — terms of use with the risk notice, privacy policy, and the TradingView widgets. Existing accounts confirm once at their next sign-in.
• Terms of use: a full risk notice, content and rights, third-party services, prices, ending your use and contact.
• Settings: TradingView widgets can be switched off; DESK then shows its own price line and a placeholder instead of charts.
• Home page footer: link to the risk notice.

Improved

• Fonts are served by DESK itself; the app no longer contacts Google Fonts.
• Privacy policy: AI analyst, transfers outside the EU, chat attachments, operator notifications, consent for TradingView, right to complain.

Fixed

• Legal notice: removed the link to the EU online dispute platform, which has been shut down.

17 September 202610:32auslieferung-20260917-1032

Smooth scrolling on the home page

Improved

• Home page: "See what's inside" and the other in-page links now scroll smoothly instead of jumping.

17 September 202610:19auslieferung-20260917-1019

Trade-Chain tab, sector revenue charts, matrix fixes

Added

• Trade-Chain tab: pick a resource and follow it through the whole chain — occurrence, production, exports and imports, dependent industries and companies — on four linked maps with a colour-coded chain bar, world production and export charts, and a country panel.
• Sectors by importance: click a revenue figure for its line chart (chain-linked), on the companies map and on country pages.
• Sector attractiveness matrix: the legend entries open their lists, like in the company matrix.

Improved

• Attractiveness matrices: smaller dots; the crosshair appears only inside the chart area.
• Sectors by importance: smaller type, revenue figures in gold.
• Indicator map: the weighted average of the selected countries opens its line chart too.
• Line charts of yearly figures show years instead of "Jan …".

17 September 202609:47auslieferung-20260917-0947

robots.txt and sitemap

Added

• Search engines: a robots.txt and a sitemap of the public pages, so Google finds the product pages.

Improved

• Search engines: data interfaces and the sign-in screens of the app are kept out of the search index.

17 September 202609:26auslieferung-20260917-0926

Pin from the right-click menu

Improved

• Community: pin and unpin messages from the right-click menu (DESK role only), in channels and direct messages.

17 September 202608:59auslieferung-20260917-0859

Sector matrices and ranking, pinned messages, smaller ticker

Added

• Companies map: with "All sectors" there are now two attractiveness matrices, one for all companies and one for the sectors (average scores, size by revenue; click a sector to select it).
• Companies map: new table "Sectors by importance", ranked by company revenue; each sector opens its top 10 headquarters countries.
• Country pages: new "Companies" chapter with the country's sectors by revenue, its worldwide rank per sector and the top 10 companies of each sector.
• Community: messages can be pinned (DESK role only), in channels and direct messages; a "Pinned" button at the top shows only the pinned messages.

Improved

• Attractiveness matrix: gentler zoom, especially on trackpads.
• Ticker tape: smaller, back to the size of the text around it.
• Chat images open in the image pop-up instead of a new tab.

Fixed

• Companies map: with a sector selected, picking one company now shows only that company on the map.
• "Show on the map" from the sector dependencies now has a Back button to the companies map.

17 September 202608:39auslieferung-20260917-0839

One browser session at a time

Fixed

• One browser at a time now also applies to sign-ins made before the rule: the first browser to reach the server keeps the account, any other browser is signed out within seconds.
• Phones get one slot of their own as well: one computer browser plus one phone per account, no more.

17 September 202608:28auslieferung-20260917-0828

Sharp ticker, paste images, one desktop session

Added

• Chat: paste an image with Ctrl+V to attach it, in channels and direct messages.
• One session per computer: signing in on another computer or browser signs out the earlier one, with a note on the sign-in screen. Phones stay signed in.

Improved

• Ticker tape: now TradingView's newer ticker, drawn by the browser itself — sharp text and figures, no separators, no frame.

17 September 202608:06auslieferung-20260917-0806

Sector raw materials, matrix zoom, production categories

Added

• Companies map: with a sector selected, a "Sector & attractiveness" table at the top shows which raw materials the sector depends on most, per dollar of revenue (BEA input-output, public domain).
• Attractiveness matrix: crosshair with values, zoom with the mouse wheel, drag to move, double-click to reset.
• Attractiveness matrix: the three legend entries open their list of companies.
• Production map, All productions: the country tables group their rows under Minerals, Agriculture, Forestry and Drugs, each folding open.

Improved

• Ticker tape: price changes are crisper and easier to read.
• Production map: the "all" maps colour on a steeper rank scale, so only the largest producers are gold.
• Attractiveness matrix: slightly larger, smaller blue dots, no duplicate panel title.
• Companies map: the company menu lists a selected company under its own country group instead of at the top.
• Life & Spirit page: "The odds, in numbers" is shown unblurred.

Fixed

• Companies map: country tables list companies again for every country, including Walmart for the US.
• Companies map: with one company selected, the tables show only that company.

17 September 202607:38auslieferung-20260917-0738

Sharp ticker, sourced odds, UCDP group names

Improved

• Ticker tape: text is sharp again at every screen scaling.
• Life & Spirit, "The odds, in numbers": the unsourced 10R is replaced by the yearly return of the most active traders (Barber & Odean), and the trader count by online brokerage accounts worldwide.

Fixed

• Armed conflicts: groups UCDP could not identify show as "Unidentified armed group (country)" instead of codes like XXX475.

17 September 202607:19auslieferung-20260917-0719

Full-width ticker, Life & Spirit pictures, calendar pencil

Improved

• Ticker tape: runs the full width again, sits on the page background and ends at a plain TradingView logo.
• Life & Spirit page: complete ruleset and checklist in the opening picture, and figures and texts partly blurred.
• Front page: the company picture shows the whole price chart.
• Public pictures of the armed-conflict map show the new play button.

Fixed

• Company page, Stock & valuation: the last bit of the TradingView header is gone.
• Performance calendar: the note pencil only appears on hover and no longer pushes the day number aside.
• The "profitable in an average year" figure is marked as sourced (Barber, Lee, Liu, Odean).

16 September 202622:04auslieferung-20260916-2204

Custom layouts, Life & Spirit page, slimmer ticker, production map colours

Added

• Custom tab: several layouts, like My Maps. Create, rename, duplicate with a right-click, delete, and share a layout with a channel or a member.
• Life & Spirit product page, with example screens of the ruleset, daily state, risk tables and food diary.
• Armed forces table: the "All countries" column shows the average for percentage rows, with its chart.

Improved

• Ticker tape: smaller, on the DESK panel colour, and it now ends cleanly before the TradingView credit.
• Company page, Stock & valuation: the name and exchange no longer repeat above the price.
• Production map: opens on Minerals · All minerals, and the "all" maps colour countries by rank, so they are no longer almost all gold.
• Production map: with one country selected, the line chart sits in the same place as with several.
• "Indicator map" is now called "Indicator".
• Front page: real screens for company pages and the portfolio, and a smaller flat/satellite handle.
• Solutions: each "Where to start" step jumps to its own section.

Fixed

• The timeline play button looks the same on Windows as on macOS.
• The close cross of confirmation windows turns red on hover.
• Risk management table: the last column is no longer cut off.
• Updated pictures on the public pages now replace the old ones in the browser cache.

16 September 202620:43auslieferung-20260916-2043

Solutions pages, checkout, resource pages and FOMC in the calendar

Added

• Solutions pages rebuilt around the reader: what gets in the way today, what changes with DESK, how a week can look, three first steps, and what DESK doesn't do.
• Checkout page: plan summary, account step, and billing and payment steps prepared for launch. Signed-in visitors go straight to DESK.
• Dictionary page: the full subject tiles and one example entry per level, from beginner to expert.
• Journal page: example screens for live accounts, a single trade, backtests and reports.
• Broker & prop firm guide page: the prop firm list, a cost sheet, brokers and platforms.
• Economic calendar: FOMC rate decisions, statements and projections, from the Federal Reserve's own meeting calendar.

Improved

• Portfolio is marked as DESK Pro throughout. Retirement figures are blurred in the goals example.
• News page: News Lite (high-impact releases) in every plan, News Pro for all releases, headlines and earnings.
• Market Geometry page: the reference drawings show zones and structure without giving away levels.
• Pricing: euro prices only, DESK Pro shown with its badge, and a comparison table that matches what DESK offers today.
• Sources page: providers grouped by subject in an even grid.
• One "Get started" button on every product and resource page, leading to pricing and then checkout.

Fixed

• Crypto and portfolio screenshots no longer show light strips at the edges.
• The allocation gauge needle no longer runs through the scale labels.

16 September 202619:37auslieferung-20260916-1937

Product pages for crypto, portfolio, news and market geometry; CVD spot back

Added

• Product pages: a DESK Pro badge marks the features that come with DESK Pro.
• Crypto Terminal page: futures data, ETF flows, sentiment and the rainbow bands, each with a screen from the app and what it shows.
• Portfolio page: the investments overview, allocation and diversification, goals, the AI analyst and dividends, shown with an example account.
• Market Geometry page: a chart to draw on, the Fibonacci level zones and the pitchfork as example drawings.

Improved

• News page: opens with the real economic calendar instead of a mock-up.
• Front page: the Crypto Terminal and Market Geometry sections describe what is actually inside.

Fixed

• Fear & Greed history shows the Bitcoin price line again.
• Altcoin Season names its actual data source.

16 September 202618:41auslieferung-20260916-1841

Ticker tape without separator lines

Improved

• The ticker tape runs without the separator lines between symbols.

16 September 202618:35auslieferung-20260916-1835

Ticker tape full width with logos again

Fixed

• The ticker tape runs across the full width again, with the company logos back.

16 September 202618:05auslieferung-20260916-1805

TradingView charts in DESK colours, slimmer ticker tape

Improved

• TradingView charts now sit in the same anthracite as the rest of DESK, toolbars included, and open without the volume indicator.
• The ticker tape is slimmer, keeps running when the mouse is over it, and ends before the TradingView logo.
• Crypto Terminal: the price chart fills the full height of its row.
• Company pages: the chart takes the full width; the technical rating panel is gone.
• Portfolio: the position window is much wider, with a larger chart.

16 September 202617:38auslieferung-20260916-1738

All productions on the production map, armed forces totals, smaller fixes

Added

• Production map: a fifth choice, "All productions", with the combined world map, the world trend of all four groups side by side with a shared cursor, and the top and worst 15 trends across every commodity.
• Armed conflicts map: the armed forces table gets an "All countries" column once two countries are selected; its figures open the lines of each country and their sum.

Improved

• Production map: switching the category now preselects its "All …" choice.
• Production map: the top and worst trend tables show ten rows.
• Production map: with one country selected, its line chart now shows under the tables.
• Armed forces table: placed directly under "Selected countries", or at the top with one country.
• Country pages: the Military chapter no longer repeats the figures of the armed forces table.
• The Trade-Chain tab moved to the end of its row.

Fixed

• Map labels get their outline as soon as they are switched back on, not only after zooming.
• Production map: the row in the selected-countries table is no longer highlighted.

16 September 202617:18auslieferung-20260916-1718

TradingView charts in the ticker, crypto, company, country, portfolio and market geometry pages

Added

• The ticker tape now shows TradingView prices for your own selection: stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities, FX and crypto.
• Company pages: the Stock & valuation chapter shows the TradingView quote, a full price chart and TradingView's technical rating.
• Country pages: the Economy chapter shows the country's lead index and currency as small charts; the Central bank chapter shows the currency.
• Portfolio: every position opens with a price chart, including stocks and ETFs that had none before.
• Market Geometry: a full chart with drawing tools and a free choice of symbol.

Improved

• Crypto Terminal: the price chart and the coin pop-up use TradingView charts for the coins TradingView lists.
• The Sources page and the privacy policy name TradingView.

16 September 202616:09auslieferung-20260916-1609

Company product page, resource and solutions pages, sectioned changelog

Added

• Company Pages product page with five screens from the app, each explained: the headquarters map, the attractiveness matrix, the largest companies, headquarters by country and the company page.
• Public pages for the Dictionary, the Sources and the broker, platform & prop firm guide.
• Six Solutions pages: new traders, macro investors, stock pickers, crypto traders, your own record, and a new one for geopolitics followers.

Improved

• Macro Terminal product page: every screen now comes with a short explanation instead of a plain gallery.
• Your own map page mentions colouring by formula.
• The header reads "Log in" and "Get started"; Get started leads to pricing.
• The changelog page lists what was added, improved and fixed, without file lists.

16 September 202615:42auslieferung-20260916-1542

Production map whole again, category pickers, Palestine, armed forces, chokepoint mind maps

Added

• A category picker on the Production map — Minerals, Agriculture, Forestry, Drugs — left of the commodity picker, which then lists only that category. Switching back returns to the commodity last chosen there
• The same picker on the Production tab, with "All categories" in front: pick one and only its tables remain
• "All selected countries" row in "Deaths by country" with the total, shown once at least two countries are selected
• New tab "Trade-Chain", next to Trade

Improved

• Chokepoint mind maps in more detail (Suez Canal and the others): what the ships through there carry, by vessel type and share of transits (IMF PortWatch), the largest goods groups and, separately, the raw materials among them, from the trade between the regions the routes connect (CEPII BACI). Shipping and rail corridors got the same mind map
• The Companies map moved to the Industry group, below Production
• Front page video: the cell the search jumps to stays sharp; only the other figures are blurred. Images and the video carry a checksum in their address, like stylesheets and scripts

Fixed

• The Production map is whole again. Since the four production maps were merged into one, the world trend line, the top and worst trend tables, the ranking by volume and the per-country boxes stayed empty: they were handed all four groups at once, and the server answers for one. They now get the group of the selected category
• Palestine is called Palestine. It was always there, but under the World Bank's name "West Bank and Gaza" — filed under W in every list, while the map already labelled the same area Palestine
• No more dot beside the expand arrows. It was a clipped ellipsis: tables with a fixed layout shorten overlong cells with "…", and the arrow column was a few pixels too narrow for the arrow. Expand cells never shorten now, in any table

16 September 202615:05auslieferung-20260916-1505

Macro Terminal screens with blurred figures, front page always at /

Added

• "What it looks like" on the Macro Terminal page: a short screen recording of the indicator search, a country page, the world map of the country pages and the comparison view. The figures in all four are blurred on purpose — the page shows how the terminal works, the numbers stay inside DESK. The blur was applied in the running app to exactly the values, so country names, topics, maps and chart shapes stay sharp
• Click a screenshot to see it large — the journal screenshot and all screens under "What it looks like"; a second click, the cross or Escape closes it

Fixed

• The front page is the front page for everyone. The DESK mark in the header leads to /, and a signed-in visitor used to land inside the app there instead of at the top of the page they were reading. / now always shows the front page; signed in, the header says "Open DESK" and goes straight to the dashboard
• The Google Calendar and WHOOP connections return to /life-and-spirit, and the "Sign in" buttons on the e-mail confirmation and password pages go to /login

16 September 202614:41auslieferung-20260916-1441

Legend redraws only the new line, rounded currency picker, journal screenshot

Improved

• A rounded currency picker on the example portfolio. The open list of a native select is drawn by the browser, square and grey; it is now a list in the style of the header menus
• A real screenshot for the journal. The mock-up showed entries with setup, reason and lesson, which is not what the journal in DESK looks like. The journal page and the front page now show the trades table from the app; the page's own "what it looks like" section keeps the month calendar

Fixed

• Only the new line draws itself. Switching a series on in the legend of the cycle chart used to redraw all three lines from the left, as if everything had changed. Lines that were already there now stay put; only the one just switched on runs in. The dashed cycle average also keeps its dashes after drawing — it used to end up solid
• Space between title and description in the header menus — the two sat directly against each other

16 September 202614:09auslieferung-20260916-1409

One address per view, the public front page at /

Added

• Every view has an address now. Until today the whole application lived at one URL: which view was open existed only in the browser's memory. No bookmark on the Macro Terminal, no link to a portfolio, and the back button led out of the site instead of one view back. Now the address says what is on screen — /macro-terminal, /portfolio, /journal, /dictionary, /community and the rest — and back and forward walk through them

Improved

• The front page is the front page. deskalmanac.com shows what DESK is to anyone without an account; it used to show a sign-in mask and hide the front page at /start/. Signed in, the same address opens the application. /login and /register carry the two masks, and signing in returns to the page you were trying to open
• The nine other public pages stay under /start/ — deliberately separate: in the application /portfolio is your portfolio, on the public site /start/portfolio.html is the page about it
• The gold dot in the browser tab, the same mark DESK uses everywhere else, plus a description line and a canonical address on each of the ten pages

Fixed

• The mock-ups on the public pages react to clicks again. Freezing the design draft to static HTML had left one state of each: the year on the world map, the chapters of the macro terminal, the tiles that open a chart, the legend of the cycle chart, the currency of the example portfolio, the notes and journal entries — none of it moved. Every state is now rendered ahead of time and shipped with the page
• Flat against satellite is draggable again on the "your own map" page, and the map itself runs the full width of the page — the "try a rule" panel below it is gone
• White text on tiles instead of black on black. A <button> takes its colour from the browser, not from the text around it; the figures on the World GDP, Revenue and Margin tiles were unreadable

16 September 202613:27auslieferung-20260916-1327

Public front page at /start/

Added

• A public front page at /start/: ten pages — what DESK is, the four terminals, your own maps, portfolio and journal, market geometry, news, pricing and the questions that keep coming — readable without an account

Improved

• No third-party requests: Inter and IBM Plex Mono are served from DESK itself (SIL Open Font License, latin subset only), so a visitor's address never reaches anyone else before they have even signed up
• Images down from 5.2 MB to under 1 MB — the satellite screenshot alone was 3.9 MB

Fixed

• Three promises corrected before publishing: the portfolio page showed a value and a one-year change, which needs market data that only arrives with DESK Pro — it now shows book cost and share of the portfolio; the news page led with headlines, which are not licensed for a paid product — it now leads with the economic calendar; and the crypto page understated itself, since its data is live today

16 September 202613:01auslieferung-20260916-1301

One production map, mind maps on the country pages, resource tables

Added

• Straits: clicking a strait on the map now shows a mind map next to its figures — the routes through it with the trade they carry, the vessel types over a year, and the main cargo

Improved

• One production map instead of four: minerals, agriculture, forestry and drugs are now a single map called Production, and its picker carries the four groups as headings. The map menu has a new heading Industry above Flows, with Resources first and Production after it
• One production tab instead of four, and on the country pages one Production chapter with the four sections inside it. Saved views that still name an old map or tab are rewritten to the new one
• Resources map: the worst-trend tables show ten rows instead of two — the ten weakest, because in resource trade almost everything rises in dollars and a table with two rows answers nothing
• Resources map, country boxes: the label now stands left of its figure ("exports $1.4B · $/kg $8.98"), so the numbers line up at the right edge
• Production map: the row of the commodity selected on the map is highlighted in the selected-countries table, and that table only appears from two countries onwards — with one country it repeated the same figure three times
• Mind maps moved to where they are looked for: the conflict mind map from the armed-conflicts map to the country page under Military, and the currency mind map from the currency map to the country page under Central Bank

Fixed

• Production map: the countries table keeps its scroll position when the year changes, including when the new year has fewer rows

16 September 202609:14auslieferung-20260916-0914

Public changelog page

Added

• Changelog page at /changelog, built from CHANGELOG.md by a new script (scripts/changelog-seite-bauen.js): every release with its date, time, tag, headline and bullet points, newest first, in the look of the other public pages
• Publicly readable like the about page, so anyone deciding whether to create an account can see what is happening here without having one
• Linked from the legal tiles inside the app (Settings → Legal notice) and from the footer of the about page
• Five weeks reconstructed: 32 entries from 11 August to 14 September, rebuilt from the working logs of each day and marked as reconstructed — the page now shows 51 releases instead of 19

15 September 202620:32auslieferung-20260915-2032

Conflict allies from UCDP/PRIO, clickable names in enlarged mind maps

Improved

• Armed conflicts · mind map: allies now come from the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, including states fighting with their own troops on a side ("support"), e.g. Russia, Burkina Faso and Niger for Mali or the coalition for Iraq; supporters of the other side appear under opponents; an empty allies branch says so instead of disappearing (new data file, rebuilt monthly)

Fixed

• Mind maps: clicking a country name in an enlarged mind map now opens its country page (SVG labels could not be forwarded before)

15 September 202619:41auslieferung-20260915-1941

Crosshair box, resource worst trends, scroll positions, supply chain series, mind map layout, lists and allies

Added

• Resource map: worst trends tables for imports and exports under the top trends; both follow the time slider of the map

Improved

• Line charts: the crosshair box grows with long series names and shortens the name instead of letting the value run out of the box (all charts)
• Trend tables: figures in expanded rows light up one at a time; tables keep their scroll position when the year changes or the page rebuilds (whole Macro Terminal)
• Company pages: back button now just "← Back"; every figure in "Where the raw materials come from" opens its history (imports from a supplier country, imports of a raw material, conflict deaths)

Fixed

• Mind maps: names no longer overlap (labels are measured and move outwards until they are free); company relations use the same layout; every branch label opens the full list as a table; the conflict map now shows allies (parties on the same side or fighting the same opponent, from UCDP)

15 September 202618:08auslieferung-20260915-1808

Resource trend tables, expandable trend rows, supply chains, mind maps, fixes

Added

• Resource map: new "Top trends" tables for resource imports and exports (world), between the tables and the world charts; imports line green on the country charts too
• Trend tables (production and resource maps): every row expands to the ten largest countries of that commodity with figures, shares and a line chart per country; production trend tables now follow the time slider
• Mind maps: relations map on country pages (Geopolitics: alliances, trade and investment partners, conflicts, same currency), conflict map per selected country on the armed conflicts map, currency map on the Attributes · Currency page (countries using it, investment into and out of the currency area)

Improved

• Map legends: more space between marker and label, no gold hover on legend words
• Companies map: names in the attractiveness matrix open the company page (gold on hover); enlarged tables keep their scroll position when they refresh
• Company pages: close button in the enlarged revenue & net profit chart; back button to the company page on map pages opened from it; new "Where the raw materials come from" in Resource dependency — supplier countries weighted by the industry's inputs (BEA input-output × CEPII BACI import origins), conflict deaths of supplier countries, breakdown by raw material and large producers in the supplier countries as candidates

15 September 202616:55auslieferung-20260915-1655

Clickable map legends, production map slider and trends, companies map and company page fixes

Added

• All world maps · clickable legends: click a legend marker to hide or show that type on the map (company sites, branches and facilities, resource and attribute colour classes, conflict types and war flows, rail/road/pipelines, money and trade flow directions, capitals and cities, military operators, companies/banks/exchanges, and every overlay layer); lines in company charts can be switched the same way, charts with a single line cannot

Improved

• Production maps: time slider now also for "All minerals", "All crops & livestock", "All forestry" and "All drugs"; year dropdown removed (the slider is enough); top and worst trend tables on every production map, including the drug map (titled "world total" there); hovering one of the three figures of a commodity highlights all three
• Companies map: no counts in the sector and company menus; map pins next to every name in "Largest companies" and in the A–Z lists; names in the attractiveness matrix sit right next to their dots (with a thin pointer when further away); sorting the table keeps its horizontal position, the small triangle is gone
• Company pages: enlarge button on the revenue & net profit chart next to the logo; every figure in the crisis performance table opens its line chart (full history incl. the years before the SEC filings); "Show on the map" in Resource dependency now opens the matching production or resource map

Fixed

• Resource map: enlarge buttons of the import and export tables sit at the same place

15 September 202615:43auslieferung-20260915-1543

Company header, Safety tab, companies map, resource tables, colourful charts

Added

• Company pages · new "Safety" tab: loss years, largest revenue drop, revenue volatility, equity ratio, liabilities to assets, operating cash-flow margin, years with dividend and site countries with conflict deaths; crisis table for the dot-com crash, global financial crisis, euro debt crisis, commodity slump, COVID-19 and the 2022–23 energy shock (revenue and profit in the worst crisis year, sector median, dividend held or cut, years until revenue recovered); charts of growth, margin and balance-sheet ratios; risk filings from SEC 8-K (bankruptcy, restructuring, impairment, delisting, auditor change). Free sources only: SEC EDGAR, Wikidata, UCDP
• Companies map: "All companies" at the top of the company menu shows every headquarters on the map (click a dot to open the company page); sector menu back above the map; plain chart title under the map (gold title stays on the company page)

Improved

• Company pages · header: the logo and name tile now has a fixed, clean size (logo 16:9 with a compact name field); the revenue & net profit chart next to it takes exactly its height
• Attractiveness matrix smaller
• Macro Terminal: all remaining gold area charts (country series, currencies, IMF, money, world averages, chokepoints, resource flows of selected countries, comparisons) now use the colourful line style

Fixed

• Companies map: the pin jump to the map no longer stutters — DESK scrolls itself and data arriving during the scroll waits until it has finished
• Resource map: import and export tables end at exactly the same height; the two world charts below share one crosshair
• Production maps · top/worst trends: long commodity names wrap inside a fixed column instead of pushing the figures to the right; "Commodity" header aligned top-left

15 September 202615:08auslieferung-20260915-1508

DESK score: company points system and score-based attractiveness matrix

Added

• DESK score (new): a points system for every company in the style of classic stock-picking checklists — 18 factors, 0–3 points each, weighted ×3 (revenue growth, earnings trend, net margin, return on equity), ×2 (equity ratio, operating and cash-flow margin, R&D intensity, size, macro environment of the HQ country, geopolitical risk of the site countries) and ×1 (valuation, dividend continuity, revenue per employee, track record, tradability, internationality, presence)
• Company pages: new "Score" tab with the full points table (limits per band, reached band in gold, subtotals, final result), opportunity and quality scores, data coverage, rank in sector and overall; DESK score tile on the overview
• Largest companies: new sortable "DESK score" column
• New data: SEC XBRL frames for all U.S. filers (cash flow, R&D, dividends, shares, equity, liabilities, EBIT), refreshed monthly

Improved

• Points from the data, not from fixed limits: 3 points = top quarter of the company's sector, 0 = bottom quarter; missing data drops out of points and maximum; scores with little data are pulled towards 50 %; no score below 35 % data coverage
• Attractiveness matrix now based on the DESK score: opportunity score against quality & stability score, green cluster at ≥ 70 % on both

15 September 202614:38auslieferung-20260915-1438

12 fixes: companies map & pages, attractiveness matrix, industries, world series, resource charts

Improved

• Company pages: "Revenue & net profit" title in gold capitals; new "At a glance" row on the overview (founded and age, headquarters, employees, industry, CEO, listing, countries with sites, subsidiaries), more profile facts (type, parent, owners); mind map branches start at the edge of the centre circle, every name is clickable (company page, subsidiary on the map, or Wikidata entry) and turns gold on hover
• World as a selected country: line charts now also work for monthly series (core inflation, unemployment, policy rate, exports, exchange-rate index, import cover), IMF credit to GDP and other sources without a World Bank world row — computed on the server from all countries (sum for quantities, average of reporting countries otherwise, median for index values)
• Resource map: without a selected country, the world line charts are split — exports directly under the exports table, imports under the imports table — for a single resource, a group and "All resources"

Fixed

• My Map: path points set to "hidden" no longer show a dark ring
• Companies map: the company dropdown lists all companies again (it only showed the selected one); a selected company stays selected when a sector is chosen; the 📍 pins jump to the map reliably (the scroll was cancelled when data arrived during the scroll); sector and industry choice moved below the map with 37 industries under the 11 sectors (e.g. automotive, banks, semiconductors, pharma & biotech, oil & gas); new attractiveness matrix per sector or industry — growth score against quality score (ranks 0–100 within the selection), threshold at 70, attractive cluster shaded green and listed; "Largest companies": names left-aligned, ranking by clicking the column headers

15 September 202613:40auslieferung-20260915-1340

Company logos appear directly

Improved

• Company logos appear directly: the server now keeps all logos on disk (fetched once in the background after start, one every 1.5 s), the logo is preloaded when the pointer rests on a company name, and while a logo is still on its way the field stays plain white — the letter tile only shows for companies without a logo

15 September 202613:32auslieferung-20260915-1332

Company logos in high resolution

Improved

• Sharper company logos: vector logos are now rendered by Wikimedia at 3840 px wide (1920 px for near-square logos, to keep browser memory in check); pixel logos use the original file instead of the 250 px preview. Cached as new files, old small copies are replaced

15 September 202613:24auslieferung-20260915-1324

22 fixes: My Map, conflicts, production, companies map & pages, free valuation, news index, resource map

Added

• Armed conflicts: with several countries selected, "Deaths over time" adds an "All Countries Cumulative (sum)" line — white with long dashes, clearly different from the gold average
• Company news: new server-side news index built from the open GDELT raw data feed (the GDELT search API rejects every request with 429) — hourly, only articles about the company (name in the headline or at least three mentions), headline, source, date and link

Improved

• World as a selected country: clicking a world value now opens its line chart — where no world series exists, it is summed (quantities) or averaged (rates) from all countries
• Companies map: every number in "Largest companies" opens its line chart; with countries selected the ranking shows only their companies; "Countries by company headquarters" rows expand to the companies A–Z; clicking a headquarters on the map opens the company page, clicking any other site (subsidiary, facility, OpenStreetMap branch) opens a detail card with sites per country, distance to headquarters, revenue and country context; the 📍 pins jump to the map and mark the headquarters (a sector filter that excludes the company is cleared)
• Company pages: the revenue & profit chart next to the logo is full size; every table and chart can be enlarged; numbers in key figures, annual and quarterly tables, outlook and the macro table open line charts (incl. margin, growth and year-on-year series); the network mind map keeps all labels inside their boxes and the frame
• Stock & valuation without market data: P/E, P/B, P/S, PEG, dividend yield, EPS, dividend per share, shares outstanding and book value per share are calculated from freely usable sources (market cap from Wikidata, figures from SEC filings), each with its year and history chart; live price fields stay reserved for EODHD
• Resource map: legend symbols in the line chart windows switch lines on and off; with a resource but no country selected a world line chart (exports, imports, or output) appears below the tables; rows of the selected resource or group are highlighted light grey in the country-specific tables; selected countries are listed first in the imports, exports and occurrence tables (keeping their real rank)

Fixed

• My Map: colouring a country shows the full colour immediately (it stayed faint on imagery until the map was switched); the pin list in "Connect to" keeps its scroll position when a pin is picked; moving a map now moves its note, open state and tile width with it (also when copying or deleting); the path tool has a point size setting (hidden, small, medium, large)
• Production maps: long commodity names wrap instead of widening the table; numbers in the top/worst trend tables open the world line chart

15 September 202612:42auslieferung-20260915-1242

Company logos: proxy fix, Wikipedia article logos, monogram tiles

Improved

• More logos: companies without a logo in Wikidata now get the freely licensed logo from their own Wikipedia article (linked via Wikidata, never by name search; licence checked per file and shown under the logo). Accepted licences extended by Apache, OGL and Free Art where Commons lists them
• Companies without a free logo show a coloured monogram tile (e.g. “SA” for Standard Aero) instead of an empty field
• Ready for EODHD: once the EODHD key is on the server, companies still without a free logo get the logo from the EODHD company data (covered by the data licence)

Fixed

• Company logos fixed: the logo field on company pages was empty white – Wikimedia now serves its thumbnails from a second host that the logo proxy did not allow. All freely licensed logos load again

15 September 202612:02auslieferung-20260915-1202

Performance: server prewarming, overview table windowing, faster tabs and maps

Added

• Server prewarming (new): the server now requests the crypto, earnings and macro data itself shortly after start and then on each refresh cycle (crypto every 2–5 min, macro files hourly). Every visitor gets a warm answer – the crypto overview no longer takes 4 s on the first call after a restart or after its cache expired

Improved

• Overview table: opens about 12× faster – only the columns in view are built (≈20 of 700), the rest follow while scrolling; sorting keeps the scroll position
• Preloading in the browser: after login DESK quietly loads the year series, world averages, institutions, armed conflicts, resources and the companies data in idle time, so the macro tabs and maps open without a loading spinner
• Faster tabs and maps: armed conflicts map builds in half the time (conflict lookup via index instead of a search through 1,920 conflicts per point), Agriculture and other topic tabs rank each indicator once instead of re-reading values 288,000 times, faster number formatting everywhere (cached formatters, ~27× faster per number), lighter click binding
• Companies map: the company dropdown with 4,943 entries is only filled when it is opened; the company ranking is sorted once per sector and size metric
• Server: world averages and commodity prices are cached and sent compressed (previously rebuilt on every request)

15 September 202611:07auslieferung-20260915-1107

Company pages, 4,327 large companies, sector tables, world as a country

Added

• Company pages (new): every company on the companies map has its own page, laid out like the country pages, with the company logo instead of a flag (only freely licensed logos from Wikimedia Commons, licence shown). Topics: overview (key figures, profile, market position within sector, country and region), financials (revenue, operating income, profit, cash flow, R&D, assets, liabilities, equity, EPS – full history from SEC filings, otherwise Wikidata), quarterly results with earnings release dates, stock & valuation, resource dependency (BEA input-output accounts), relations network as a mind map (parent, owners and institutional holders, partners, competitors, subsidiaries), news (GDELT) and SEC filings incl. management changes, macro & geopolitics of all countries with company locations, outlook against the sector
• Market data ready for EODHD: share price chart, P/E, forward P/E, PEG, 52-week highs/lows, new highs, price targets, institutional ownership and analyst forecasts are built in and switch on automatically once the EODHD key is on the server; until then the company chart shows revenue and profit
• Companies map, new tables and filter: sector dropdown (11 sectors) showing all headquarters of the sector on the map; largest companies ranked by revenue, profit, assets, employees or market value; countries ranked by number of headquarters; attractiveness matrix per sector (revenue growth vs. profit margin, circle = revenue, split at the sector median); chart of the selected company below the map; plausibility checks against obvious data errors

Improved

• Companies map: 4,943 companies instead of 1,224, including 4,327 large ones – everything at the size of a Forbes Global 2000 company by revenue, profit, total assets or market value, plus companies with 20,000+ employees, 100 bn USD+ assets under management, members of the major stock indices and companies with Wikipedia articles in 15+ languages (Wikidata, SEC EDGAR – the Forbes list itself is not used, it is a protected database). Includes BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Blackstone, KKR, Temasek, Koch, Keyence, Xiaomi and many more
• Armed conflicts: the line charts opened from the tables now also show the cumulative line (dotted), each line can be switched off
• Resource map: with a group (e.g. precious metals) the selected-countries table lists only that group; in the expanded trade pairs, country name and flag lead to the country page
• Production maps: the world trend chart uses the coloured line style; with “All minerals” etc. new tables for top trends, worst trends and largest world output
• World as a selected country: tables and boxes now show world figures on the indicator, production, drug, resource, conflict, transport, military and company maps (sum for quantities, country average for rates)

14 September 202619:25auslieferung-20260914-1925

Continents, conflict time series, world trend, resource trade pairs

Added

• Production maps with no country selected: below the map, the world trend of the selected type (sum of all countries); for “All minerals” and similar an index, because tonnes of different goods cannot be added up

Improved

• Hiding continents on image backgrounds: Vegetation, Night lights, Elevation & relief and Climate zones now clip the image to the visible countries – no leftover patches along coasts and islands, less drawing work. On the Time zones map the colourful time-zone bands stay visible instead of turning black
• Maps without a continent switch (Armed conflicts, Rail/road/pipelines, the three flow maps): a continent selection made on another map no longer hides countries there
• Armed conflicts, every number with its time series: country boxes (per conflict and the totals by type of violence), the selected-countries table (per country, combined, average), the conflict list below the map and Deaths by country – gold on hover, click opens the line chart. Only on this map
• Resource map, several countries: the small “named by all” table is gone; in “Between the selected countries” every number opens its time series; with All resources, a group or several resources, each row of the selected-countries table expands to show what the countries supply to each other – also clickable

14 September 202618:22auslieferung-20260914-1822

Companies map: all companies from the country tables

Added

• Locations: 18,917 from Wikidata (subsidiaries, sub-subsidiaries, own facilities – e.g. 3,957 India Post offices, 3,697 SNCF stations), 16,890 subsidiaries from the GLEIF LEI register, 530,903 branches and sites from OpenStreetMap for 488 companies

Improved

• Companies map, all companies from the country tables: 1,224 instead of 158 companies in the dropdown, grouped by 65 countries; every company in the country tables is now clickable (linked via its Wikidata ID)
• Fast despite the volume: large point sets drawn as a single element – Tauron with 68,949 grid sites in 0.15 s
• Location build: OpenStreetMap queries in batches of 20 instead of one by one (minutes instead of hours), failures retried automatically on a second server

14 September 202615:41auslieferung-20260914-1541

Maps, production maps, resource charts, faster Custom tab

Added

• Production maps (Minerals, Agriculture, Forestry, Drugs): selected countries with clickable values including sum and average; country boxes after clicking a country; country list with expand carets, all values clickable
• Resource map: after selecting a country, one chart each for exports and imports of the selected resources

Improved

• World maps, colours: blue and grey in the colour scale clearly separated (clear blue, lighter middle, gold stays); on satellite, night lights, vegetation, relief etc. the rank colour is more opaque (70 %)
• World maps, continents: continents switched off now disappear on all backgrounds except satellite – in the sea colour of the respective background
• MyMap: colouring a country immediately gets the thick white outline everywhere, without reloading
• Custom tab: loading no longer triggers a full rebuild for every single data series but batches them – the heavy test layout that blocked the browser for minutes now needs 10 rebuilds (2.8 s); on weak devices batching is even stronger
• Companies map (preparation): companies from the country tables linked via their Wikidata ID, location build in stages – the data follows in a separate release

14 September 2026before the repositoryauslieferung-20260914-basis

State the repository was created with

Added

• Companies map: subsidiaries from the LEI register (GLEIF) and 137,276 branches and sites from OpenStreetMap
• Resource map: imports table, every number with a line chart, expandable rows, time slider applies to all tables, year menu removed

Improved

• Currency and IMF maps: every value with a line chart, including average and sum; price level as a time series

14 September 2026

**Time sliders on the flow maps, religion figures corrected, security

hardening**

Added

• All three flow maps got the time slider the other maps have: trade from 1960 by year and month by month from 2016, money flows from 2009, refugee flows from 1977, with the arcs really changing as it plays
• Security: a security.txt that renews its own expiry date, the server no longer announcing which framework it runs on, and all 43 checkers green

Improved

• The slider plays smoothly now: the next step is loaded in the background and swapped in complete, three steps are prefetched, and loaded steps are kept, which took a year from about 0.9 seconds to 0.44
• IMF credits open their series from 1970 wherever they appear, with the share of GDP next to them, and synced crosshairs between the two
• Resource tables are clickable throughout, with combined figures for several countries showing each country's share in brackets
• Attribution notices now appear exactly where the data is: the crypto notice only on the pages that use that source, the exchange-rate notice only when a rate that really comes from it is converted

Fixed

• Religion figures were wrong for 55 countries because the reader stopped at a bracket in the source: Libya came out Christian at 2.7 percent, Iran likewise. Brackets no longer break the reading, denominations are added into their religion, and ranges are understood

13 September 2026

Licence review: every source checked, several replaced

Improved

• Sources page corrected, including the licences that turned out to be more permissive than recorded
• Attribute maps can be opened per group with flags, and single values can be picked out on the map
• Currency charts always read as dollars per unit, euro countries share the euro-area series from 1999 instead of jumping from their old currency, and countries using the dollar share the dollar chart

Fixed

• IMF credits no longer count the allocations every member receives without borrowing, which is a different thing; 86 countries have an outstanding credit, each with the year it has been running since
• Production maps read the years of the quantity shown instead of the years of an unrelated indicator

12 September 2026

Long histories

Added

• Long-run economics: GDP per capita since 1500, human capital, total factor productivity, labour share and hours worked, the latter from the labour organisation's own live interface rather than a snapshot

Improved

• Commodity exports extended from eight years to 37 (1988-2024, both directions, around 200 countries per good), which is the honest limit because the commodity codes themselves only start in 1988
• Refugee flows now run from 1977 and foreign direct investment from 2009
• Mine production raised to 83 of 89 commodities with an average of 23.6 years, after four more reading errors in the source were found and fixed
• Drugs cannot be extended, and the reason is the source: the annex only exists from 2015 on, and guessing the rest was not an option

Fixed

• Eleven indicators went from no history at all to their full series — the build script had always fetched the complete files and thrown everything but the latest year away; 163,826 values where there had been none

11 September 2026

Production data, internal displacement, and a lot of coverage work

Added

• Mine production as a new chapter: 89 commodities, 111 countries, as tiles, on the world map, on every country page and in Compare, with nine different units converted to four so a ranking compares like with like
• Agriculture and forestry: 350 products for 216 countries, later extended back to 64 years of history
• Internally displaced people from the IDMC: the stock figure, which is the number people actually mean, was missing entirely and now covers 81 countries, and new displacements went from 71 to 78 countries and two years fresher
• Business cycle: a phase band under the figure, one stripe per quarter, hatched where inflation was in the top quarter at the same time, and the cycle drawn as a curve with a gold ring on the phase the country is in

Improved

• Mine production history extended from six to an average of 14 years per commodity by teaching the reader to handle the source's own inconsistencies, with four real reading errors found on the way — one of which had put 512 rows of ammonia under niobium, nickel and peat
• Consumer confidence completed at 51 areas
• Speed: city labels thinned on country maps, scroll listeners reduced, and compression turned down a level because the last two kilobytes cost forty percent of the time

Fixed

• Homicide figures taken from the UN statistics division rather than the copy, which added nine countries
• Two country codes that the IMF writes differently meant Kosovo and the West Bank had been getting nothing from the IMF at all

10 September 2026

Date and time fields of our own, journal reports, business cycle

Added

• Business cycle tile added, with two kinds of figures thrown out rather than shown: previous-year prices, which carry a year of inflation, and unadjusted series, which produced impossible growth rates; the affected countries say "not determinable"

Improved

• Every date and time field in the journal is now built by the page: three boxes in the order of your language, typing in any notation, jumping on to the next field, a cross to clear, and nothing redrawn until the last box is full
• The time dial was rebuilt after the second ring turned out to be unreadable: hours, then minutes, then seconds, two hands, and the whole area clickable rather than just the digits
• Folders can be renamed with a pencil, week and month tiles open the same window as a day, and the year calendar gained twelve month tiles
• Reports can be edited in place, trades open from inside a report, and "last trading days" really counts trading days
• Country pages: "Top resources" per country with export values, imports and exports side by side, occurrence underneath, and every figure following the chosen year instead of showing the latest one regardless
• Conflict map: the arcs follow the time slider, deaths tables follow the selected countries, and each death figure selects its country and opens its series

9 September 2026

Journal: accounts, tags, filters, and imported data

Added

• Duplicate finder for imported trades, which keeps the copy that has the screenshots rather than the larger one, because trades can be imported again and a screenshot cannot
• Best instrument opens a ranking with trades, winners, break-even, losers, hit rate, net and average R
• "Exclude BE trades" as a switch on every figure, because a break-even is neither won nor lost and still sits in the denominator
• Filter views per folder as tabs above the trade table, each with its own count, and the summary line recalculating with them

Improved

• Account picker sorted by origin first and type second, with favourites on top, collapsible groups and sub-accounts selectable individually
• Instrument symbols drawn in-house instead of borrowed, with the contract month folded away, so NQ, NQ1! and MNQ count as one instrument
• Imported tags, methods and accounts collapse into their own category instead of burying what you created yourself
• Macro Terminal: the world is selectable again everywhere, "only major economies" appears once and also filters provinces, cities and companies, the together line is dashed and only averages the visible lines, and six more directories on the dashboard

Fixed

• Equity curve got axes at all, plus a right-hand scale on the charts like the other terminals

8 September 2026

DESK Journal

Added

• A full trading journal: dashboard with net result, hit rate, profit factor, average R, green days, best instrument and longest streak, a year heat grid, a month calendar with weekly sums, an equity curve and daily bars, each day clicking through to its trades
• Live accounts and backtests as freely nestable folders, each folder rolling up its subfolders
• Paste from the charting tool: a position drawing pasted with Ctrl+V becomes a trade with entry, stop, target, quantity, times and result, all read from the drawing itself rather than guessed, with an undo bar for ten seconds
• Trade sheet with inputs on the left and the calculated figures on the right, break-even, exit and target buttons, method, tags, documentation, charts and links
• Reports with saved filters, a gallery of every chart across all trades, and settings for calendar, numbers and 23 instruments with tick size and value
• CSV import and export that round-trips a trade character for character, and an import path for trades from another journal, including images and tags

Improved

• Climate map in a sharper resolution and with the published Köppen colours instead of a palette I had put together myself
• Macro Terminal: 14 fixes, among them figures that open the matching flow map, the search that adds a country instead of replacing the selection, an average line in the combined chart, a year menu on the dashboard, overview and country pages, Military as its own chapter, and a country page index that actually lists that country

Fixed

• A real calculation error found on the way: an empty stop field was read as price zero, which had silently produced absurd risk figures for any hand-entered trade without a stop

7 September 2026

Map layers, corridors and a round of 21 fixes

Added

• New corridors: Americas to Europe via Panama, Asia to Europe via the Northwest Passage, and India to Russia via the North-South corridor, each with distance and trade volume

Improved

• Dragging tabs runs on pointer events, horizontally only, with the grab hand appearing after four pixels so a short click still switches
• Speed measured rather than guessed: the military layer alone produced 427 KB of drawing per rebuild, which is where the delay on the map came from

Fixed

• Point layers respect the continent filter properly, and the flow maps ignore it entirely rather than being filtered by a setting made on another map
• Agency seats corrected to their real locations

6 September 2026

Smaller fixes

Improved

• Synced crosshairs say "outside this period" instead of silently switching off, so it is clear the sync is working

5 September 2026

Country page details

Improved

• Note titles behave like every other tile title, with a double click to rename
• Every own map has its own zoom and its own reset, and the enlarged view shows one map instead of all of them again
• Name and figure are separate click targets everywhere: the name opens the country, the figure opens its history
• Sorting on Overview and on Compare, which had none at all before

Fixed

• A country with no indicator chosen already appears in the table instead of leaving it empty
• Sign colours only where a set of figures actually has values above and below zero, so a column that is positive throughout stays white

4 September 2026

Country page blocks that you arrange yourself

Added

• Five notes instead of one, each with its own title
• Continent switches in the legend of the country-pages map
• Your own maps appear as previews with their own background and overlays, and open on the world map in one click
• "Clear all" on every table and chart, visible only when there is something to clear

Improved

• Clicking is precise: the country name opens the country page and a figure opens its history, instead of the whole row doing one or the other
• Thirteen blocks can be rearranged by a handle that appears on hover, so selecting text in a note no longer drags the tile

3 September 2026

Opaque account ids, the world page and "who fights whom"

Added

• The world got its own page with the NASA Blue Marble and the world map next to it, every outline leading to its country
• Crosshairs run in sync across neighbouring charts, matched by time rather than by position, and a chart with no data for that year switches its crosshair off instead of jumping to a wrong one
• Your own table under the overview, with freely chosen indicators, chips to remove them and your own sorting
• "Who fights whom" as a conflict overlay, with state-based, non-state and one-sided conflicts switchable, and the arcs following the same year as the points
• Drug crops as a feature map, with hectares on hover and groups taken from the data instead of invented size classes
• Dictionary: 45 new terms and 171 aliases from a list of 292, with the course jargon left out rather than guessed

Improved

• Accounts are identified outwards by an opaque id; the email address stays on the server and leaves it nowhere
• Channel permissions tightened: a restricted category is invisible to anyone without the role, the server refuses reading, writing and even marking as read, unread counts and notifications exclude it, and the cache key carries the role so nobody can be served someone else's copy

2 September 2026

Security pass, display currency, the AI analyst and goals

Added

• Display currency: the whole portfolio in one currency of your choice, converted at the rate of the day each transaction was booked rather than today's, which is the difference between right and roughly right
• AI analyst for the portfolio, with a separate conversation per view, sources listed under each answer, and a budget measured in money rather than in requests
• Goals: retirement and passive income, calculated from published consumption, life expectancy and income distribution data for the chosen country, and from your own payout yield rather than an assumed one, with no invented factors
• Diversification gauge across positions, asset class, regions, sectors and currencies, each saying how much of the portfolio it can classify at all
• Watchlists: several named lists, notes per row, moving entries between lists and booking them straight into an account
• Aliases: every account gets a display name, and an email address is never shown anywhere

Improved

• "Early access" now stands next to the logo

Fixed

• Year tabs start at the previous year's closing price, which recovered the gains that four New Year's Eves had been swallowing
• A year with no purchases still gets a tab, because holding is not the same as not having a portfolio

1 September 2026

Portfolio

Added

• Several accounts with type and currency, positions added by search or by hand, editable line by line, a watchlist with live prices, and cash positions for what has no price
• Net worth across all accounts per currency, with investments and cash separated and an eye to hide the totals while percentages stay readable
• Breakdown by account, asset class, currency, sector and country, with fees paid
• Transactions by month, each purchase showing what has become of it since that date
• The world on average under Country pages, with every figure opening its own history

Improved

• Portfolio and DESK Journal moved into the sidebar next to the terminals: the things about the world first, the things about you after them
• Currencies are never guessed: the currency comes from the instrument's own data, and where it is unknown the number stands without one instead of being added into a wrong total
• Prices come from the server's cache, so more positions mean fresher or staler prices, never more requests to the provider
• The market-data layer is one exchangeable file, and the page writes the gaps down instead of drawing an empty curve

31 August 2026

Nutrition with real reference values, weekly report, map polish

Added

• Measured energy expenditure as a third basis next to formula and WHOOP: average intake minus the body mass actually gained or lost over the same span, weekly averages only, and never under 14 days
• Weekly report as a real PDF, written by hand rather than with a library, in both languages and in light or dark to match the theme

Improved

• Nutrition: full nutrient values are fetched when a food actually goes into a meal, with 47 values instead of seven, and every figure says how many items it came from, so a dash means "nobody declared it" rather than "there was none"
• Daily target from height, weight, age, activity and goal, following the DGE activity table rather than an unsourced rule of thumb, with the reasoning shown
• Reference values are pulled from the DGE's own pages by a build script, and the four nutrients where the DGE gives ranges or conditions carry no percentage at all instead of an invented one
• Charts: the right axis can be stretched with the wheel, the legend shows the same line style as the chart, and hiding a series rescales the axis
• Maps: overlays grouped under four headings, overlays belong to the sheet they are on, flow charts use colour for the country and line style for the direction, and the city layer's three switches finally do something
• Checkboxes across the whole page are drawn by the site instead of by the browser

30 August 2026

**Calendar sync repaired, your own maps saved to the account, brute-force

protection**

Added

• Calendar sync: every DESK event now carries an invisible id on the Google side, the mapping is saved continuously instead of at the very end, and a lock prevents two runs at once, so duplicates cannot happen again even if the mapping is lost
• Maps can be shared into a channel or with a person, and arrive as a proper card with an "Add to my maps" button
• Undo on the map, with a drawn arrow that no font can replace
• Login brake: after five failed attempts a further attempt is refused for a while, by address and by origin, and the check runs before the password comparison so that a flood cannot tie up the phone
• Macro highlights rebuilt on the server: ten findings, outliers and record levels, measured against what is unusual for that country, with aggregates, tiny states and trivial records filtered out
• Year menu above the tables on every flow map, so history is one click away

Improved

• Your own maps live on the account instead of only in the browser, with export and import as a file, and an empty set never overwrites a full one
• Regional averages are now weighted the way the World Bank and the IMF do it, with every indicator declaring whether it is summed, GDP-weighted, population-weighted or not aggregated at all

Fixed

• Crosshair drawn as its own image, because the built-in one is white on Windows and invisible on a light map

29 August 2026

Life & Spirit, Google Calendar, a watchdog and the public pages

Added

• Google Calendar sync in both directions, with a mapping table, incremental sync and deletions on both sides; no secret ever reaches the built page, which was verified by planting one and searching for it
• Watchdog: the server reports its own start, crashes, failed data builds, low disk space and a daily summary, with a rate limit so a loop cannot spam, and no email addresses in any message
• Public pages: an info page, terms of use, a privacy policy and an imprint, each under a fixed address
• Similar countries are ranked across ten indicators, with the three closest shown as the reason; commodity exports stay out, or "similar" would soon just mean "exports the same goods"

Improved

• Life & Spirit: one date for everything, so the calendar, the food log and the WHOOP figures always show the same day
• Spirit page: ten points on attitude, the realistic outlook in four figures with the sourced ones in gold and the merely circulated ones in grey, and a long text on what becoming a trader actually means

28 August 2026

Map overlays, unit values and speed

Added

• Your own map as an overlay over satellite and night lights, carrying the country colours through semi-transparently
• Point maps all have a table underneath now, and it follows the filters

Improved

• Commodity combinations show four cases instead of two: has both, has only the first, has only the second, has neither
• Unit values derived from net weights, called unit value rather than price, with the market check written next to it
• Speed: map redraws measured and rewritten, and 12.5 MB of layer data compressed

Fixed

• Sea routes no longer look like staircases; the route smoothing was rebuilt

27 August 2026

Flows on the maps, earnings from filings, and 9,400 dictionary terms

Added

• Migration added for every pair of countries, from the UN's International Migrant Stock
• Conflicts as an overlay on the other maps, on the last complete year
• Layer menu with a counter, single switches per layer, and a switch to hide all names
• Dictionary: 31 new terms on knock-out and leveraged products, ten on options, the missing Greek, and a sweep of German market-structure terms; 9,439 terms with 2,783 aliases in total

Improved

• Commodity imports completed, so all 32 goods now have both directions
• Refugees and asylum seekers are kept apart instead of added together, because they are different things
• Flow maps got direction as a colour gradient rather than arrowheads, which pile up exactly where you want to read the map, plus several countries at once and rankings for both directions
• Tax content stays out of the dictionary, deliberately
• Life & Spirit: WHOOP connection prepared

Fixed

• Earnings: a release whose day has passed no longer disappears; it says the figures are not in yet, and the SEC filing fills in where the data provider has nothing
• Elevation map: the grey patch was the Caspian Sea, which lies below sea level; it now carries a water outline

26 August 2026

Your own maps, company revenue from filings, and a lot of polish

Added

• Your own maps became a real tool: colour countries by your own rules, open a country to colour its states, place labelled pins, draw arrows with direction and line style, and free paths with waypoints
• 30 colours plus a mixer in the site's own style instead of the operating system's colour dialog; colours can be renamed per map and belong to the sheet they were used on
• Company revenue from SEC EDGAR: the figures companies filed themselves, with the fourth quarter derived from the annual report minus the first three, left empty where a quarter is missing
• Mineral resources as a new map with 31 commodities, stating plainly that it shows where a resource is reported, not how much of it is there
• Graticule over every map, with equator, tropics and polar circles

Improved

• Every map keeps its own drawings, so a pin drawn on the world map no longer shows up inside a country
• Distances are calculated on the globe, not on the flat sheet, where two degrees of longitude are 222 km at the equator and 80 km in northern Norway
• Speed: a click used to rebuild the entire page, including thousands of map elements; drawing and switching tools no longer does that
• Community: double-click gives a thumbs up, reactions and their removal now work in direct messages as well

25 August 2026

Company and institution maps, real country maps, conflicts

Added

• Companies & organisations as a new map: 150 companies by reported revenue with the 25 largest labelled, plus 120 international organisations
• Banks, exchanges & central banks as a second map: 44 institutions, 89 exchanges, 200 central banks, each layer switchable
• Scale bar on every map, recalculated at every zoom step instead of claiming the same distance forever
• Cost of living from the World Bank's International Comparison Program: price level, PPP-adjusted GDP per capita and eight groups of goods
• Military map with a branch filter and an "overseas only" switch
• Regional data: cost of living and crime by region and city for Europe and the US, from Eurostat and the BEA
• Villages: a place directory with 82,277 places for Germany alone, delivered per map section instead of as one huge file, with a search that ranks by match quality rather than size

Improved

• Country maps rebuilt like a printed map: neighbouring countries as a quiet grey ground, state names in spaced capitals, rivers in blue with their names along the course, cities, ports as anchors and airports as planes, railways and trunk roads, and a legend that only shows what is switched on
• Every country map now has its own coordinate system, so Monaco and Russia are drawn at the same size on screen
• Conflicts: the time slider now runs from 1946 to 2026, events are located from 1989 onwards and countries with an ongoing conflict are coloured before that, and three new indicators (conflict deaths, civilians killed, armed conflicts in the country)

24 August 2026

Maps, infrastructure, taxes and a new country-page topic

Added

• Trade routes as a new map: arcs from the selected country to its eight largest customers and suppliers, with both rankings underneath
• Commodities on the world map: 20 goods over eight years, from gold and copper to lithium, cobalt, rare earths and uranium, plus a commodity table per country
• Agriculture added with twelve goods, from wheat and maize to coffee, cocoa and fertiliser
• Geography & Climate as a new country topic: live local time, temperature and rainfall series, water, forest and land use, terrain, mineral resources, natural hazards and environment
• Infrastructure on the map: 3,285 airports, ports with 40 attributes each from the World Port Index, 3,439 military sites with foreign-operated ones marked, railways, trunk roads and 25 major pipelines
• Age pyramid, demographics, wealth per capita, government bond yields, drinking water and population density as new figures
• Taxes in three cards: tax on employment, tax on business for 225 countries, and tax on capital
• Feature maps for questions without a scale: alliances, IMF credits, largest religion, access to the sea, currency
• Time-zone map and time-zone grid, daylight saving included
• Combine up to four indicators: every country gets its percentile per indicator and the average of those, never a sum, because percent, dollars and years cannot be added
• Your own maps: several of them, named and renameable, with a pin mode
• Satellite layer available under every map
• Full German translation of 265 indicator and topic names

Fixed

• Colour scale fixed: the map now decides between linear and logarithmic itself, so large countries stop looking alike
• Safari: eight separate problems fixed, from a missing fallback that made the whole page die on a local address to chart heights, backdrop filters and private-mode storage

23 August 2026

Macro Terminal

Added

• Twelve tabs: Dashboard, World Map, Overview, Compare, Economics, Money, Government, Trade, Resources, Tech, Society and Military
• World map with 176 clickable countries and all 45 indicators, coloured by rank rather than by raw value, because otherwise 190 countries look identical and one country looks bright
• Country pages with flag, region, income group, capital, a mini map and ten topics; every tile opens as a popup with 45 years of history
• Overview with 211 countries across 11 sortable columns, and Compare for up to six countries with a table and charts
• Macro highlights are read from the numbers, not written by hand, so a headline cannot go stale while the figure next to it changes

Improved

• Empty on purpose: politics and geopolitics say "no source connected yet" instead of hiding the gap, because there is no free source for elections, alliances and sanctions

22 August 2026

Futures data and chart handling

Added

• Futures data for ten coins on six exchanges, with the coin list derived from the market list instead of being fixed, so a coin that is barely listed disappears by itself

Improved

• Four months of history instead of one on the 4-hour series, and taller rows
• Charts are operated with the mouse: the wheel zooms around the pointer, dragging moves the view, a double click resets it; on a phone one finger pans and two fingers pinch

21 August 2026

Crypto Terminal

Added

• Four tabs: Dashboard with the BTC header, price chart, dominance, fear and greed, watchlist and news; On-chain with addresses, hash rate, transactions, difficulty, MVRV, open interest and funding rate; Liquidations; and a heatmap of the top 100
• ETF flows from Farside for BTC, ETH, SOL and HYPE, with the last five trading days on the dashboard
• Altcoin season index with its full history, blue above 75 and orange below 25
• New "Cycles" tab: Pi Cycle Top, Puell Multiple and rainbow bands, all logarithmic, with a signal table showing value, threshold and how far each one has run

Improved

• Missing on purpose: the on-chain ratios that need a paid provider are left out rather than filled with estimates, and the page says so
• Every external source goes through the server, which fetches a value once and shares it, so the site never runs into rate limits

20 August 2026

Notifications, the economic calendar and the Market Geometry section

Added

• Notifications: desktop toasts with avatar, sender and channel, a real system notification when the tab is in the background, three levels for the community (off, mentions and replies only, everything), alerts ten minutes before a session opens, and a soft two-tone sound generated in the browser instead of an audio file
• News: a month calendar with red-folder dates, holidays, shortened trading days and daylight-saving changes, a Monday-to-Friday table with local times, forecast and previous value, and filters for impact, currency and single events, saved per account
• Market Geometry became a page instead of a card list: an introduction, the lessons in the right order, a diagram gallery, the document library and trade examples, each example with its result marked in colour
• Add-ons page introduced; the bots category became the AI assistant

Improved

• Holidays and clock changes are calculated in-house, not taken from a third party
• Actual values for past releases come from the first print of the series, without later revisions, and previous values are shown alongside
• Finnhub calls are rate-limited server-side to 35 per minute so the site and the earnings bot stop competing for the same quota

19 August 2026

Dictionary favourites, account bans, Greek letters and the bot pages

Added

• Dictionary: around 670 more intermediate terms written out; a star on every term, and a Dictionary group on the dashboard that jumps straight to the term
• Bots page: the earnings bot shows what reports today before the open and after the close, the last seven days of results with EPS and revenue against estimates, and a watchlist of 109 tickers; the alert bot shows its session times and week calendar

Improved

• Favourites live on the account, not in the browser, so they survive a change of address
• Bans: a blocked account is stopped in the running session, at login and at re-registration; a DESK account can never lock itself out
• Option Greeks: symbols set the way the options literature does, and no symbol invented for the higher-order Greeks that have none
• German edition: decimal commas, percentages and dates now follow the language of the page

18 August 2026

Prop firms with real fees, people, instruments and the German edition

Added

• Prop firms: all 22 firms with account sizes, fee models and ratings; fee popups only where the prices could be verified, and a plain note where they could not
• Dictionary: 350 people (chart analysis, trend followers, funds and quants, economists, crypto), a new Instruments section with 98 entries covering futures, ETFs, index heavyweights and reference instruments, plus money-market and short-term trading terms

Improved

• Ratings based on public review data, including the cases where a profile was flagged for fake reviews
• Dictionary quality: all 77 expert terms rewritten with a full explanation and at least three worked examples in both languages
• German edition: 52 descriptions and 41 tags translated; the language check reports no mixed-language cards left

Fixed

• Platforms and brokers: crypto exchanges moved to Broker & Banks, corrected website links, added pricing and review links where they exist

17 August 2026

Dictionary reaches full coverage, and banknotes

Added

• Numbers and symbols got their own category with 74 terms; entries that were filed under the wrong letter were moved
• Banknotes and coins: a new section on currency terms showing front and back, starting with AUD, USD, EUR and CHF

Improved

• Dictionary: all 26 letters at 100% of the target count, 7,128 terms in total, no missing English fields

Fixed

• Duplicates removed across the whole dictionary, with five genuinely new terms added so no letter fell below its target

16 August 2026

Navigation, icons and the role system

Improved

• Sidebar: Overview and Personal fold away like the categories, each on its own
• Icons for Market Geometry, Indicators, Macro, Bots, Crypto, Life & Spirit, News, Dictionary and Prop Firms
• Tagline set in a smaller size with dot separators, measured to fit on one line

12 August 2026

Messages, ticker bar and live prices for commodities

Added

• Direct messages: reactions, replies, editing, forwarding and typing indicators
• Ticker bar: a dropdown to pick your own tickers from around 380 entries, searchable by name and symbol, sorted with the selected ones on top and saved to your account

Improved

• Honest gaps instead of wrong numbers: bonds, most indices and rarer commodities show "—" rather than a substitute price, because a bond yield and a bond ETF price are not the same thing
• Index prices are fetched once per calendar day and marked with a small "S" for daily snapshot; entries with no free source at all show a dash

Fixed

• Commodities: gold, crude oil and natural gas were frozen numbers before and now update live through their ETFs

11 August 2026

Favourites, notes, collapsible sidebar and the community tab

Added

• Favourites: a star on every card and tile; the dashboard shows a "Favorites" section as soon as something is starred
• Notes: a note icon on every card opens a text field that saves itself and turns teal once a note exists
• Themes: dark and light mode, switchable in the settings and remembered between visits
• Community: member profile cards with avatar, bio and stats, friend requests, blocking, message deletion and a separate tab for direct messages

Improved

• Sidebar: collapses to a narrow icon rail at the click of a button and remembers the state; "Personal" sits at the bottom, separate from the categories
• Broker & Banks: 30 entries switched from Trustpilot to App Store reviews where the Trustpilot profile was disabled for fake reviews; MUFG unrated because the data was too thin