There are plenty of stories from famous financial people who were initially hired as analysts at various banks/news agencies which go like this: so on my first

There are plenty of stories from famous financial people who were initially hired as analysts at various banks/news agencies which go like this: so on my first day I was told "from today you cover Apple/Euro/gold market. But I don't know much about that. Doesn't matter, just give your best." And I'm not talking about the 80s, but even people doing this after 2007. You are right about what+context, buy you don't really need analysts for that, to tell you what market moved and what economic event happened before that.