How to read a daily briefing in 10 minutes

Mornings are tiring not because there's too little information, but too much. A fixed reading order makes a briefing far faster.

Read in three passes

• 1) Headline indices: did the US/Europe rise or fall overnight, and by how much.
• 2) Your sectors: read only the news tied to what you hold or track.
• 3) Today's calendar: flag only earnings/data that could actually move today's market.

The rest you can skim. The surest way to cut noise is the habit of reading in the same order every day.