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Episode 10 of The Weekly Sift Stack: Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. Markets started the year strong, as we started to see rotation away from mega-cap tech into small-cap stocks. Capital One (COF) is the stock of the week, though political pressure on credit card rates clouds bank earnings. Meanwhile Fed-White House tensions, rising gold, a post-Maduro Venezuelan market surge, and a Paramount-WB battle add volatility.

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Episode 9 of The Weekly Sift Stack: Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. The U.S. military’s seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro sent shockwaves through geopolitics and global markets. We discuss the immediate fallout, the energy implications, and what it means for investors. Then we turn to 2026, Wall Street’s S&P 500 targets, our S&P 500 targets, and a look back at how the Sift Stack indexes performed over the past year, with gold shining as the top performer and the U.S. dollar finishing last.

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Episode 8 of The Weekly Sift Stack: CJ Gettelfinger and Lucas Nulsen explore why value brands like Walmart, TJ Maxx, Dollar Tree, McDonald’s, and Ulta are winning, while Nike, Lululemon, Target, and Chipotle struggle amid inflation. Then a further deep dive into how holiday spending is reshaping markets, with Christmas outlays averaging about $1,000 per household and 2025 totals projected to exceed $1 trillion. Lastly, a talk about early sector rotation and the steady strength of finance stocks.

Episode 7 of The Weekly Sift Stack: Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. The spotlight is on Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM), a leader in the global chip supply powering AI giants like NVIDIA, Apple, and AMD. Beyond Chips, Time crowns the “Architects of AI,” iRobot (IRBT) files chapter 11 amid tariff pressure, and Fed succession chatter heats up with the Battle of the “two Kevins” leading the odds.

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Episode 6 of The Weekly Sift Stack: Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. Yields ticked higher last week after the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge, the core PCE, came in softer than expected. Stepping away from the Mega Cap companies, we take a deep dive into fintech standout SOFI. Then we breakdown the week’s biggest headlines: Netflix (NFLX) and Paramount’s (PSKY) showdown for Warner Bros (WBD), McDonald’s (MCD) turning up the heat on “value”, and the rising odds of a Fed rate cut.

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Welcome back to The Weekly Sift Stack, where Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. The markets wrapped up November on solid footing. Last week, equities and bonds ticked higher as rate-cut expectations strengthened, with CME FedWatch pricing an 88% chance of a December cut. Bitcoin (BTC) slipped again after new warnings from China’s central bank, and markets now turn to the Fed’s final policy meeting of 2025.

This week’s stock for review is Amazon (AMZN), which continues reinforcing its wide moat across e-commerce, AWS, advertising, and AI. With capex set to grow past $150 billion and another $50 billion earmarked for government-cloud expansion, Amazon is investing aggressively to stay ahead. In Weekly Insights, online Black Friday sales hit record highs, Zootopia 2 and Wicked: For Good delivered a huge box-office weekend, and President Trump confirmed he has picked the next Fed Chair, though he’s keeping the name under wraps as December’s rate decision approaches.

This material is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal. Any forward-looking statements or expectations regarding company earnings are based on publicly available analyst estimates and are not predictions or guarantees of future performance.

Summary: Welcome back to The Weekly Sift Stack, where Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. Markets finally exhaled, with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ pulling back again, while Bitcoin took a full-on tumble. Investors are concerned with AI-bubble talk and Fed uncertainty. In today’s insights, NVIDIA (NVDA) keeps printing, Eli Lilly (LLY) joins the trillion-dollar club, Meta (META) faces new psychological-impact scrutiny, Wicked 2 revives the box office, and the Fed prepares for December without fresh inflation data.

Our Stock of the Week, Oracle (ORCL), is riding the AI wave with a stunning $455 billion in contracted revenue, which sent the stock soaring 40% in a single day. But to deliver on those promises, the company is taking on massive debt, potentially topping $150 billion this month and projected to hit $300 billion by 2028, making it the most indebted company in the world. Investors don’t seem to care (yet), betting that Oracle’s all-in push to build data-center capacity will transform the company into an AI powerhouse.

This material is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.

Any forward-looking statements or expectations regarding company earnings are based on publicly available analyst estimates and are not predictions or guarantees of future performance.

✉️Tyler Sherven [email protected]

✉️ CJ Gettelfinger [email protected]

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Summary: Welcome back to The Weekly Sift Stack, where Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. Washington finally ended the longest shutdown in U.S. history, and the penny took its last bow after 233 years. Michael Burry says AI is the next bubble; JPMorgan says the boom is just beginning. The $2,000 tariff rebate is still just talk, needing laws (and limits) to be real. Rates nudged higher and Bitcoin dropped 6% in the past week as traders reacted to a more hawkish sounding Fed.

Our Stock of the Week, NVIDIA (NVDA), the power source of the AI boom, with GPUs that have become the core infrastructure for training and running large-scale models. With AI spending projected to top $2 trillion annually by 2030, NVIDIA’s moat spans both hardware and CUDA software, though major customers are increasingly building their own chips

This material is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.

Any forward-looking statements or expectations regarding company earnings are based on publicly available analyst estimates and are not predictions or guarantees of future performance.

✉️Tyler Sherven [email protected]

✉️ CJ Gettelfinger [email protected]

Visit siftinvesting.com for more information!

Summary: Welcome back to The Weekly Sift Stack, where Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. This week, we officially hit the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, over 40 days, may finally be nearing its end. The standoff has disrupted data releases and pressured travel and aviation, while defensive sectors have held firm. In Corporate headlines, Elon Musk just secured a record-breaking $1 trillion pay package, marking yet another milestone in the business world’s week of extremes.

Our Stock of the Week, Meta (META), proved why the Zuck is the ad king with billions of daily users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. A One-time $15.9 billion tax charge hit Q3 earnings, but underlying EPS still grew 8.9%, keeping Meta’s wide moat intact. With 98% of revenue from ads and $100B in AI investments planned for 2026, the company is betting big on its next phase of growth.

This material is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.

✉️Tyler Sherven [email protected]

✉️ CJ Gettelfinger [email protected]

Visit siftinvesting.com for more information!

Summary: Welcome to The Weekly Sift Stack, where Tyler Sherven and CJ Gettelfinger break down the biggest stories moving markets. This week, gold’s record-breaking run hits resistance as the U.S. dollar strengthens and trade tensions with China ease. Inflation cooled more than expected in September, boosting investor confidence and sending the Dow soaring past 47,000 for the first time.

✉️Tyler Sherven [email protected]

✉️ CJ Gettelfinger [email protected]

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