Global Intelligence

The Global Intelligence desk's data pages: All Sources, Cloud Outages, Commodities, Conflict Zones, Disasters, Energy, Finance, Global Data, Good News…

All Sources: Every layer the terminal can draw on one map, grouped by subject, with a country stress tally that adds up the week's violence and protest reports, internet outages, U.S. travel advice, sanctions and…
Cloud Outages: Whether about 180 cloud, hosting, AI, developer, security, telecom and SaaS providers are up, from each one's official status page, with active incidents and every status change, read every five…
Commodities: The physical side of commodity prices: mines, trade lanes, chokepoints, pipelines and weather in farm and energy regions, with front-month futures, hedge funds' positions, world food prices and the…
Conflict Zones: Military aircraft, naval vessels, tankers and other ships logged inside fences around contested seas and chokepoints, from Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb to the Black Sea and the Taiwan Strait, set against…
Disasters: Earthquakes, storms, wildfires, severe weather, UN disaster alerts and road closures as they happen, with Canadian emergencies and radiation readings. A large disaster stops factories, ports and…
Energy: Oil and gas pipelines, LNG terminals, power plants, nuclear sites, refineries and live ship traffic at the chokepoints, with energy futures, radiation readings and the world pipeline and LNG…
Finance: Stock exchanges, central banks, financial centers and Gulf investment on a map, with world index prices and trading hours, the Treasury yield curve, the OFR Financial Stress Index, policy rates…
Global Data: Published readings for any country from Our World in Data (income, health, energy and more), the Census Bureau's population outlook to 2100 and UNHCR's count of people displaced from each country.…
Good News: Progress on a map: renewable power plants, well-being by country and recoveries, with Our World in Data's long-run measures of health, income and schooling. Gains like these raise how much people can…
Health: WHO disease outbreak reports, travel health notices, State Department advisories and forced displacement on a map, with the natural events and climate readings around them. An outbreak that spreads…
Live Trains: Passenger, subway and freight trains on one live map wherever operators publish positions, train and bus fares for any trip, and the North American freight railroads' weekly service filings: train…
Military & Airspace: Military bases, nuclear sites, live military aircraft and vessels, airspace closures and GPS jamming, with State Department travel advisories and chokepoint traffic. Closed airspace and naval…
Oil & Tankers: Live tankers coloured by load, idle laden tankers, AIS gaps and Cape of Good Hope crossings, with the chokepoint flow board, oil export ports against their 2019-22 normal, refineries, terminals and…
Organized Violence: UCDP's annual record of armed conflicts, battle deaths, fighting between non-state groups and violence against civilians since 1989 (armed conflicts since 1946), with its monthly preliminary events.…
Sanctions & Watchlists: Eleven official lists, each read from its publisher's own file: U.S., UK, UN, EU, Canadian and Australian sanctions, OFAC's crypto addresses, FBI Wanted posters, World Bank debarments and U.S.…
Technology: Where technology is built and run, from startup hubs and cloud regions to AI data centers and undersea cables, and what threatens it: cable cuts, internet outages, exploited software flaws and…
Traffic Cameras: Public road cameras from transport agencies around the world, on a map and in a grid, with live streams, recent clips and refreshing snapshots labelled apart. They show roads as they are when a…
Transport & Internet: Live ship traffic, trade lanes, chokepoints, ports, cargo hubs, airspace, undersea cables and internet health on one map, with vessel counts at each passage. Most traded goods travel by sea and most…
Wildfires & Hurricanes: The current hurricanes, tropical storms and large wildfires, each with its forecast cone or burn area, the traffic cameras in it, the cargo airports, postal plants, ports, power plants, LNG terminals…
World Map: Conflicts, disasters and shipping disruptions reach markets through prices for energy, food and freight; seeing where they are happening shows which supply routes are exposed.