Daily FX rate snapshot email for treasury teams
Every weekday at 7am ET, your international finance team gets a morning email with current FX rates, day and week deltas, and a brief note on what moved.
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Google SheetsFinanceOperationsDaily DigestsAI ReportsEmail AutomationBuild me an agent workflow that runs on a cron trigger every weekday (Monday through Friday) at 7am America/New_York and sends my international finance team a treasury-style FX rate snapshot email.
Configurable inputs the workflow should expose: a list of currency pairs (default USD/EUR, USD/GBP, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, USD/INR), a comma-separated recipient list for the finance distribution, a move threshold for the news callout (default 0.5% day-over-day, expressed as a positive percentage that matches either direction), the Gmail sender account, and the Google Sheet ID plus tab name for the running log (default tab name: FX rates log).
On each run, the agent should: (1) For each configured pair, call Real-Time Finance Data Get Currency Exchange Rate to get the current rate. (2) For each pair, call Real-Time Finance Data Get Currency Time Series with period 5D to compute day-over-day and week-over-week percentage changes from the most recent closes (use the latest point as today, the prior trading day for d/d, and 5 trading days back for w/w). (3) For any pair whose absolute day-over-day change exceeds the threshold, call Real-Time Finance Data Get Currency News for that pair and pick the single most relevant headline that explains the move.
Then have the agent draft a short, skimmable briefing email. The body should contain: a one-line date header in ET, a compact rate table with one row per pair showing the pair, current rate (to 4 decimals, or 2 for JPY-style pairs), day-over-day percent change, and week-over-week percent change, and a one-paragraph commentary section that mentions ONLY the pairs that moved past the threshold, each with the driver from the news headline and a short note on what it could mean for invoicing or hedging if relevant. If nothing moved past the threshold, write a single sentence saying rates were quiet. Keep the tone factual and concise. No fluff, no investment advice.
Send the email via Gmail Send a Message to the configured recipient list with subject "FX morning snapshot — <date>". After sending, append one row per pair to the Google Sheet log via Google Sheets Append Values, with columns: date (ISO), pair (e.g. USD/EUR), rate, d/d %, w/w %, headline driver (blank if pair did not trigger a news lookup).
Operational notes: format percentages with a sign and two decimals (for example, +0.42% or -1.18%). Use ISO 4217 codes everywhere (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CAD, INR). If Real-Time Finance Data returns no time series or no rate for a pair, still include the pair in the table with a clear placeholder and skip its news lookup rather than failing the whole run. Make the threshold check use absolute value so both rallies and selloffs get explained.
Additional information
What does this prompt do?
- Sends a clean morning email with the currency pairs your team cares about (USD/EUR, USD/GBP, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, USD/INR by default) plus day-over-day and week-over-week changes.
- Writes a short paragraph explaining only the pairs that actually moved, using fresh news so the team understands the driver before standup.
- Flags any pair that moved more than your threshold so AP, billing, and hedging decisions can react the same morning.
- Appends a dated row per pair to a running FX rates log in Google Sheets, building a historical archive you can chart or audit later.
What do I need to use this?
- A Real-Time Finance Data account (free RapidAPI plan works to get started).
- A Gmail account that can send to your finance distribution list.
- A Google Sheet with a tab named FX rates log where the running history will be appended.
How can I customize it?
- Swap the default currency pairs for whatever your team books in, like USD/MXN, USD/BRL, USD/CHF, or USD/AUD.
- Change the move threshold (default 0.5% day-over-day) that decides which pairs get a commentary callout.
- Adjust the schedule, the recipient list, or the Google Sheet tab name to match your team's existing morning routine.
Frequently asked questions
Which currency pairs does this cover by default?
Why does the commentary only mention a few pairs?
Can it send to a distribution list or multiple recipients?
Will the historical log keep growing forever?
Does this replace a market data terminal?
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Connect Real-Time Finance Data, Gmail, and Google Sheets once, and your treasury team gets a clean rate snapshot in their inbox at 7am ET every weekday.