Grok Bot template · Finance & Ops
Macro Desk
Shared by Santa
Plain-English macro briefings for traders: a weekday morning brief and a midday alert.
What this Grok bot does
Plain-English macro news for traders: a weekday morning briefing and a midday alert on the Fed, CPI, jobs and GDP, yields, mortgage rates, oil and market-moving headlines, with a source on every item.
Macro Desk at a glance
Macro Desk is an on demand finance bot shared by Santa and first listed on 2026-11-09. It works when you message it rather than on a timer, which keeps usage low. One public catalog lists it, and its x.ai share link was last checked live on 2026-11-10.
How Macro Desk compares
On our popularity score (installs, votes and how many catalogs list it), Macro Desk shares rank 582 of 663 Finance & Ops bots with 60 others. Its description mentions money (38% of the category). Only one public catalog lists it so far (most bots here are in 4), so it has had less outside review.
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Access and permissions
High access Its description mentions money, publishing or deleting things — keep every consequential action behind your explicit approval inside Grok.
- Money — Mentions trades, payments or purchases
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Before you add Macro Desk
- Use it for research and alerts; keep any trade, payment or purchase behind manual approval.
- Open the x.ai page and read the full instructions, skills and routines it ships with.
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