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Hello, welcome to the Morning Filter podcast.

I'm Susan Javinsky with Morning Star.

Every Monday before market open, I sit down with Morning Star Chief U.S. market strategist Dave Sakara to talk about what investors should have on their radars for the week, some new Morning Star research, and a few stock ideas.

Now we want our audience to know that we're actually taping this episode on Friday, March 27th,

because Dave will be out on spring break, starting on Monday, March 30th.

But because we're taping this week's episode in advance,

we won't be covering anything related to the conflict in Iran, given the uncertainty.

And all of our comments reflect what's going on in the market as of Friday before market open.

All right, Dave, well, you'll be on spring break, but the rest of us have a shortened trading week ahead with Good Friday and the U.S. stock markets close that day.

But of course, we still have some economic reports and earnings on radar to talk about.

So first, let's start with what you're going to be watching on the economic front.

You know, as far as the economic front goes, I mean, we have retail sales.

We have non-farm payrolls. But honestly, I don't think either of them are going to be all that meaningful. You know, as far as payrolls go, we've talked a number of times, you know, the revisions on payrolls end up being so large that I think whatever number they publish on a monthly basis ends up being, you know, somewhat meaningless at the end of the day.

And then as far as retail sales, I mean, with everything going on, what's happening with oil prices

and gasoline prices, I just don't think whatever number ends up getting reported here is really

going to be reflective of how consumers are going to behave in the months ahead.

So to be honest, any economic metric, whether it's next week, this week,

last week, the month ahead, I don't think any of them are really going to be all that

significant because I just don't think they're going to reflect the economic trend over the

next couple months.

All right. Well, let's pivot over to earnings then. Now, Nike reports earnings this week.

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