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Market Briefs

A Market Brief is a short, insight-driven read on where the US market stands right now. Alphio gives you two ways to get one: a dedicated Daily Market Brief page with a browsable archive, and the Market Brief skill in chat.

1. The Daily Market Brief page​

Find it at: /news/daily-market-brief — open the Daily Brief tab on the News page (/news), or find Daily Market Brief from top-bar search.

The page lists briefs newest-first and pages back through older entries, so it doubles as an archive. Each entry carries a status badge telling you which session it was written for:

  • Pre-Market
  • After-Market
  • Weekly Outlook

A Pre-Market brief is written before the 9:30 a.m. ET open and an After-Market brief after it; the Weekly Outlook is published on Sundays. The page is free to read on every plan.

This is the right surface when you want to read today's brief end to end, or look back at how the tape was framed on an earlier day.

2. Asking Alphio AI in chat​

You can also just ask. Alphio AI routes market-wide questions to the Market Brief skill, which is session-aware — it adapts to pre-market, in-market, or after-market automatically based on the current NYSE clock, so you do not need to say which session you mean.

Typical asks:

  • "Give me today's market brief."
  • "How's the market?"
  • "US market preview."
  • "What's happening in the market?"
  • "Market update."

Wordings like brief, preview, overview, read, update, recap, snapshot, and rundown all reach the same skill when the subject is the US market as a whole.

3. What a Market Brief contains​

A brief is written as a narrative diagnosis rather than a data dump. It typically covers:

  • a market-style read — risk-on, risk-off, or rotation — and the one dominant driver behind it
  • a handful of opportunity setups, expressed as conditions and invalidations rather than buy/sell instructions
  • a flows map and sector performance across the day and the last week
  • top gainers and losers, each with the catalyst that explains the move
  • one variable to watch next

Behind the scenes it draws on index quotes and recent returns, momentum indicators, the Fear & Greed reading, recent US flash news, the day's economic events, and a sector heatmap.

4. Scope and limits​

Market Brief is deliberately narrow, and knowing where it stops saves you a wasted turn:

  • Built for US equities. For Hong Kong, Alphio AI answers with its own Hong Kong index and hot-stock data (plus web search for context); for A-share, European, or Japanese markets, it falls back to web search instead of answering with US data.
  • Market-wide, not single-ticker. For one name, ask about that ticker directly — see Stocks research.
  • Index proxies, not futures. The brief reads the tape through major ETFs, so it does not claim tick-level futures precision.
  • No single-stock deep-dive and no post-open intraday chart analysis.

For crypto conditions, ask about crypto directly rather than requesting a market brief — see Crypto research.

See How to chat for prompt patterns and Chat cards for the structured outputs Alphio AI may return alongside a summary.

For AI agents and tools

This page is available as plain Markdown at https://alphio.ai/docs/research/market-briefs.md. An index of every page, with a one-line summary each, is at https://alphio.ai/docs/llms.txt.