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

I'm Susan Jibinsky with Morningstar.

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

and talk about what investors should have on their radars for the week, some New Morning Star Research, and a few stock ideas.

Well, we have a shortened trading week ahead here in the U.S.

Thanks to the Fourth of July holiday.

Any big plans for your time off, Dave?

Hey, good morning, Susan.

That is quite the scarf you've got going on this morning.

Not going to lie, I'm a little jealous.

Now, as far as the fourth of the lie goes, some sand, some sun, some barbecue, maybe a couple of

beverages here and there, but most of all, just a gratitude that I do live in the greatest

country in the world. So, how about you? About the same for me, some family, some friends.

And we have a tradition in this house the past couple of years.

Instead of barbecuing, we go to Ruth's Chris for our steak.

So that will be on the agenda.

My husband and I and any of our kids that don't have plans, which will probably be none of them.

So it'll probably be my husband and I.

But anyway, that's our tradition. So of course, now I have to remember who owns Ruth's Chris and go take a look at that stock.

Darden owns Ruth Chris. So last week when we talked about Darden, I almost interjected with it, but I'm like,

no, I'm going to save it for next week. All right. Well, give me a report when you get back. I will. Last week was a good week in the market with the S&P 500 hitting a new high.

Yet we still have tariff and geopolitical uncertainty.

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