Automated Daily Market Briefing with Alpha Vantage and Claude
Financial Research & Analysis
Quick Answer
Schedule a Zapier workflow at 7am weekdays. Pull watchlist price data from Alpha Vantage MCP and top news from Perplexity. Send both to Claude for synthesis. Email the structured briefing before market open. Takes under an hour to set up.
The Problem This Solves
Finance professionals waste 30-60 minutes each morning manually checking market data, news sources, and portfolio positions across multiple tabs and platforms. This workflow delivers everything in one structured email before markets open.
About This Workflow
This workflow runs every weekday morning before market open. It pulls overnight price changes for a customizable watchlist from Alpha Vantage MCP, fetches the top finance headlines from Perplexity, sends both to Claude for synthesis, and delivers a structured market briefing by email. The briefing covers key index moves, watchlist highlights, top news themes, and any pre-market earnings or economic data releases. Setup takes under an hour and replaces the manual routine of checking multiple news sources each morning.
Tools Required
Step-by-Step Blueprint
Create weekday morning trigger
ZapierCreate a Zapier Schedule trigger set to run Monday through Friday at 7am in your local timezone. This fires before most equity markets open.
Pull watchlist prices from Alpha Vantage MCP
Alpha Vantage MCPAdd a Webhooks action to call the Alpha Vantage MCP for each ticker in your watchlist. Retrieve current price, overnight change percentage, and 52-week high and low. Also pull major index levels: S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones.
Fetch top finance news from Perplexity
Perplexity FinanceAdd a Webhooks action to call the Perplexity API requesting the top 5 finance and market news stories from the past 12 hours. Request structured output with headline, source, and one-sentence summary.
Synthesize briefing with Claude
ClaudeAdd a Webhooks action to call the Claude API. Send the market data and news headlines and instruct Claude to produce a concise morning briefing covering: key index moves, watchlist highlights, top news themes, and any scheduled events today such as earnings or economic data releases.
Use this prompt →Email morning briefing
GmailAdd a Gmail action to send the formatted market briefing. Use subject line: Morning Briefing - DATE. Send to yourself or your team distribution list.
Cost Estimate
Zapier Professional $19.99/month. Alpha Vantage Premium $50/month for real-time data. Perplexity Pro $20/month. Claude API costs minimal for daily briefings. Free tiers of Alpha Vantage and Perplexity may be sufficient for light use.