| name | finance-news |
| description | Market news briefings with AI summaries and price alerts. Aggregates headlines from US/Europe/Japan markets. Use when: 'stock news', 'market updates', 'morning briefing', 'evening market wrap', 'financial headlines', 'price alerts', 'what happened in the market'. Supports WhatsApp delivery and English/German output. NOT for fundamental analysis or scoring (use equity-research). NOT for raw financial data queries (use openbb). |
Finance News Skill
AI-powered market news briefings with configurable language output and automated delivery via WhatsApp/Telegram.
First-Time Setup
Run the interactive setup wizard:
finance-news setup
The wizard configures RSS feeds, markets (US/Europe/Japan/Asia), delivery channels (WhatsApp/Telegram), language (English/German), and cron schedule.
Configure individual sections:
finance-news setup --section feeds
finance-news setup --section delivery
finance-news setup --section schedule
finance-news setup --reset
Verify setup completed correctly:
finance-news config
finance-news briefing --morning
Quick Start
finance-news briefing --morning
finance-news briefing --evening --send --group "Market Briefing"
finance-news market
finance-news portfolio
finance-news news AAPL
See COMMANDS.md for the full CLI reference including portfolio management, cron setup, and configuration details.
Cron Jobs
Scheduled morning/evening briefings run via openclaw cron — the add/verify commands (and the manual crontab fallback) live in COMMANDS.md → Cron Jobs. Quick check: openclaw cron list.
Integration
Combine with OpenBB for detailed quotes before news:
openbb-quote AAPL && finance-news news AAPL
Run briefings via Lobster for approval gates and resumability — see workflows/README.md for full documentation:
lobster "workflows.run --file workflows/briefing.yaml"
Troubleshooting
| Issue | Fix |
|---|
| Briefing writer failing | Verify KALLIOPE_SERVING_API_KEY is set and the local Qwen route (http://100.124.155.99:4000/v1) is reachable; the DS4 route (http://gx10r-head:8888/v1) is the fallback |
| RSS feeds timing out | Check network; WSJ/Barron's may need subscription cookies; CNBC/Yahoo always work |
| WhatsApp delivery failing | Verify group exists and bot has access; run openclaw doctor |
