Please stay tuned for important disclosure information at the conclusion of this episode. Hello, and welcome to the Morning Filter podcast.

I'm Susan Jibinsky with Morningstar.

Every Monday before market open, I sit down with Morningstar chief U.S. market strategist Dave

Sikara to recap what's been going on in the market,

talk about what investors should have on their radars for the week ahead, review some new Morningstar

research, and share a few stock ideas. Now, we have one programming note this week. Now, if you

haven't yet watched it, be sure to tune into last week's bonus episode of the podcast. Dave took a deep dive into one of his favorite stocks, Microsoft, with Dan Romanov, whose

Morning Stars analyst on the company.

Now Dave, I was sort of looking at the video on YouTube and through some of the other

platforms and you're getting a lot of good feedback. So pressure is on

to do more of these, Dave. And viewers send us an email with the companies you want Dave to talk

about. We're at the morning filter at morningstar.com. What are you going to say, Dave, sorry.

Now, I was just going to say, it's a good change of pace for me to be on the side of the coin there, being the one that gets to ask the questions as opposed to the one always being answering the questions.

Well, there you go. Well, good. We like the variety. So to our viewers and listeners. So, all right, so as we're streaming this on Monday morning, there's no resolution yet in the Iran War. So let's talk about what's going on with

oil prices. Where are we right now? And is there anything standing out to you about the oil market

today? I mean, they're just still bouncing around all over the place. You know, at the end of the

day, everyone expects that once there's some sort of resolution, oil prices will drop. So no one wants to be long oil here.

But at the same point in time, you noted, there hasn't been any resolution.

So at that point, every time we have these on again, off again, negotiations, we're just

seeing oil prices, you know, bounce around, you know, one way or the other.

Yeah, there was talk last week about a 60-day truce that hasn't come to fruition. So this morning, oil prices have moved back up a couple dollars a barrel. So right now we're over at $90 a barrel. So it's still below the highest levels that we hit on a month, month and a half ago. But still, we're 50% higher than pre-conflict.

So when I'm thinking about the oil market, thinking about, you know, what's going to happen,

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