Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Stocks fell sharply Thursday after the latest U.S. economic data showed a sharp slowdown in growth and pointed to persistent inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 631 points, or 1.7%, weighed down by sharp declines … Read more
At law school, we learned about “proximate cause,” one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. It’s about who and what caused the injury and who pays for it. The current stock market lends itself to proximate causes, as in, “We have to find a cause for the pronounced … Read more
CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer Rob Kim | NBCUniversal CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday noted that major quarterly results from players like Verizon, Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet will be coming next week, but he zeroed in on the importance of the Personal Consumption Expenditures index because it is the real gauge of inflation. Cramer said the … Read more
We’ve become prisoners of short-rate forecasts. Yeah, the ones controlled by the Federal Reserve. But those fearless investors who have broken out of this self-imposed mental jail are enjoying bountiful returns. Sure, it appears to be nothing but alchemy to the jailers and their powerful protagonists in the media. But does it matter? They don’t … Read more
More than half of the stocks in the S & P 500 hit new 52-week highs in the first quarter, leaving us to puzzle over how this all happened. We act as if it’s all about the earnings or the actions of the Federal Reserve. But maybe it is something else. Maybe it’s the share … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said artificial intelligence is going to be essential to big market rallies over the next few years. “This technological revolution is crossing all barriers, even potentially becoming the heart of our national security apparatus, so we’d be like ostriches with our heads in the sand if we don’t address it,” … Read more
The Airbnb logo is displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on December 10, 2020. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images When prosecutors announced the plea deal late last week of Shamoon Rafiq, who ran a $10 million scheme that duped investors into buying into pre-IPO tech companies like … Read more
The following passage has been adapted from Jim Cramer’s opening monologue at Saturday’s annual meeting of the CNBC Investing Club. The single biggest issue we will be struggling with for the rest of the year is not how many Federal Reserve interest rate cuts we will have but whether the Fed can stand pat, or … Read more
We’ve been relatively free of actions by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve for some time now. The intrusion into the market at the end of October and early November seems like ancient history. This week, however, could change all that. Two releases on Wednesday — the Federal Open Market Committee statement and the Treasury’s … Read more
During the January Monthly Meeting this past Wednesday, we took questions directly from Investing Club members. Here are Jim Cramer’s and Director of Portfolio Analysis Jeff Marks’ responses. Their answers have been edited for clarity. 1. What is a good entry point for Eaton ? It doesn’t seem to want to go down! (Brian) Jim … Read more
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