Brian Stewart, welcome back to another week of Wall Street Roundup.

Always great to have you.

Great to be here.

Talk to us.

We missed last week.

We have a war going on longer than many have anticipated. Is oil top of mind for you?

Oil prices were hovering in the low 60s level and early February now they're in the mid-90s. They have at times pushed above 100 though., haven't really stayed there for any meaningful

amount of time.

Kind of the predictable results of that, airline stocks are lower.

The airline ETF is down about 2% this week, about 18% in the past months.

Honestly, airlines are kind of running into a perfect storm.

There's the higher oil

prices. Meanwhile, the war itself is causing travel disruptions in the region. And then you have,

at the same time, the DHS shutdown, which isn't supposed to affect TSA and those kind of things,

but is a lot of reports of long lines for checking and things like that.

So you just have a lot of stuff going down in the airline industry at the same time.

So you have a stock like Southwest, which is down 5% this week and down about 25% in the past month.

The stock was at a new high before we kind of hit the recent turbulence.

UAL is down 2% this week, down about 20% for the month.

So no real surprises there in a situation where oil prices spike.

You always kind of look to the airlines first as kind of the canary and the coal mine,

the first affected.

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