| name | market-news-brief |
| description | Run a local script to fetch broad market news and tone. Use when: user asks about market conditions, macro news, what's happening in markets, or market sentiment for any region. Invoke by reading this SKILL.md then running: uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py <SCOPE> |
| homepage | https://finance.yahoo.com |
| metadata | {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"📰","requires":{"bins":["uv"]}}} |
Skill: Market News Brief
When to use
- The user wants to understand current market sentiment and news trends.
- The user wants broad market news and macro tone for a region or country.
- The user asks "what's happening in the market?" or "any market news today?"
- The user asks about US markets, European markets, Asian markets, or global markets.
- The user wants a news digest before making a trading or investment decision.
When NOT to use
- The user wants the current price of a specific stock → use
stock-price-checker-pro
- The user wants fundamentals (P/E, EPS, margins) for a company → use
stock-fundamentals
- The user wants a full equity research report → use
equity-research
⚠️ Critical: Scope Words Only
This skill takes a market scope word as its argument — NOT a company ticker.
Passing AAPL, TSLA, or any bare ticker symbol will cause an error.
Always map the user's intent to a scope word from the table below.
Valid Scopes
| Scope | Coverage |
|---|
GLOBAL | All regions combined (default if nothing specified) |
US | S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones, Russell 2000, VIX |
EUROPE | UK + Germany + Netherlands combined |
UK | FTSE 100 |
GERMANY | DAX |
NETHERLANDS | AEX / Euronext |
ASIA | Japan + South Korea combined |
JAPAN | Nikkei 225 |
SOUTH_KOREA | KOSPI |
Commands
Get broad market news
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py <SCOPE>
Examples
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py GLOBAL
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py US
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py EUROPE
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py GERMANY
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py UK
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py JAPAN
uv run /root/.openclaw/workspace/skills/market-news-brief/src/main.py ASIA
Output
The command returns a formatted summary including:
- Index / ETF snapshot for the selected scope (price, change, % change)
- Market tone assessment (risk-on / risk-off / neutral)
- Dominant news themes (e.g. Central banks, Inflation, Tech, Energy, Geopolitics)
- Top headlines with source, publish timestamp, and link
Notes
- Uses
uv run internally — no manual pip install or venv setup needed.
- Do NOT pass a bare company ticker (e.g.
AAPL) — it will error. Use scope words only.
- For a user asking about a German stock like
RHM.DE, use EUROPE or GERMANY for market context.
- Do NOT use web search or curl to fetch market news — always use this script.
- Do NOT use the
market-news.sh wrapper — call uv run src/main.py directly as shown above.