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CNBC’s Jim Cramer implored investors on Thursday not to let day-to-day market volatility frighten them out of buying shares of great long-term performers like pharmaceutical giant Merck. “Merck is exactly the kind of company that investors circle the wagons around” during difficult macroeconomic events like long-lived government shutdowns, Cramer said on “Mad Money” amid a

The current macroeconomic environment makes it difficult for CNBC’s Jim Cramer to recommend even a best-of-breed stock like Emerson Electric, he said Wednesday after a solid trading session in the stock market. An old-line manufacturer involved in the industrial automation, fluid handling, climate control and oil and gas spaces, Emerson has been at the center

Sometimes, no movement is good movement. In the case of the government shutdown, money manager Larry Glazer believes it’s favorable for Wall Street — at least in the short term. His reasoning: It prevents lawmakers from passing policies that could be detrimental to corporate America. “Investors like less Washington, and they realize Washington isn’t always

Even with the U.S.-China trade war still raging, Chinese stocks are on fire. Increasing trade tensions between the U.S. and China through the back-half of 2018 took a sledgehammer to Chinese shares. Baidu ended the year with a 32 percent loss, while Tencent was down 23 percent, and Alibaba dropped 21 percent. However, the FXI

In his last book, “Stay the Course,” Jack Bogle left investors and professionals a warning about a coming battle in investment management. He had been watching closely over the past few years as a growing number of academics raised questions about the size of big passive fund managers, such as Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street

The next wave of earnings reports is so busy and pivotal that it could very well drive investors “crazy,” says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. But the longtime investing guru isn’t just worried about the many earnings reports coming down the pike. “I can’t recall a time when the forecast will be more important, certainly much more

The stock market’s positive response to a report that U.S. officials were considering lifting tariffs on China to get a trade deal was telling, but it wasn’t necessarily good, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “Stocks that had been crushed on Chinese worries roared higher like this arrangement was already a done deal” despite the report

Jack Bogle was sure of his pioneering market invention, but he always had misgivings about what it had become. Bogle, who died Wednesday the age of 89, devised the index fund in 1975 as a way for retail investors to be able to compete with the pros. Rather than bunch a group of stocks into

Macy’s weaker-than-expected holiday sales results seems to be more of a Macy’s problem than a retail industry problem, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. Shares of the old-line department store operator saw their worst trading day ever after Macy’s reported lower holiday sales for the end of 2018 and slashed its earnings outlook for the year.

The parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger has “changed the narrative” for the retail sector, and its stock still has more upside, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday after the major averages fell slightly on earnings worries. “PVH had a very rough time in the second half of 2018. Even though shares have rallied

Ford Motor is gearing up to launch new electric cars as soon as next year, CEO Jim Hackett told CNBC on Sunday. Ford has previously announced its plans to invest $11 billion in electric vehicles by 2022 and produce 40 hybrid and fully electric cars, in a plan to revive its slowing business. However, the

Call it the Apple turnover. Shares of the tech giant are down over 30 percent from its October high, shedding more than $400 billion in market capitalization from peak to trough. Apple‘s collapse comes amid growing fears over iPhone demand and trade tensions. Last week, the stock fell nearly 10 percent in a day, setting

Part of the reason stocks have returned to normalcy after the market’s end-of-2018 carnage is a revival of the data center, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. After spending a week in San Francisco interviewing executives in the technology and health-care industries, Cramer, host of “Mad Money,” left the so-called Golden City with some key takeaways.

Wall Street’s recent distaste with the retail sector is evidence that the economic layout is changing for public retail companies, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday as the group slid on holiday sales disappointments. “Welcome to the new economy,” Cramer said. “Going forward, you need to understand that not all retailers are created equal anymore, and

Investors shouldn’t wait for “ironclad proof” that business is improving at Micron, Nvidia and Lam Research before they buy the semiconductor companies’ stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday as stocks inched higher. “If you wait for ironclad proof that a troubled business has turned itself around, you’ll miss most of the upside from that turn,”

In its last fiscal year, Apple generated $100 billion in revenue that was not tied to what has long been considered its flagship product, the iPhone, CEO Tim Cook told CNBC on Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview with Jim Cramer. “In this last quarter, if you take everything outside of iPhone, it grew at 19

Patient investors might want to consider buying shares of Micron Technology as things slowly turn positive for the chipmaker, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday as Micron’s stock pulled the semicondcutor cohort higher. Shares of Micron mounted a long-awaited recovery in Monday’s turbulent trading session after BMO Capital Markets analysts upgraded the stock to “buy” from

Blackstone is telling investors not to give up on 2019, and perhaps they’re starting to listen. Its investment strategist, Joseph Zidle, is optimistic stocks will rebound this year, blaming the market’s wild swings on misguided, negative sentiment. “This is a buying opportunity. We see the market, the S&P 500, up 15 percent in 2019,” he

Tony Robbins, renown life and business strategist who has coached more than 50 million people, has dedicated himself to spreading personal finance literacy across America. And his mantra is timely: Don’t sit on the sidelines in fear or make rash decisions because of stock market volatility. As he points out: “The single biggest threat to

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just gave the stock market and the U.S. economy exactly what they needed to continue the steady growth they’ve seen in the last several years, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. In a group interview with former Fed leaders Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, Powell said Friday that he would be

If not for the plunge in Apple’s stock on Thursday, Wall Street would’ve been laser-focused on the monumental tie-up between biotechnology giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. “If not for the Apple shortfall today — worst in 6 years, by the way — this Bristol-Myers-Celgene deal would’ve been all we talked about,”

Apple slashed its revenue forecast on Wednesday amid trade tensions between the U.S. and China, but it’s not the first company to signal trade impacts. In a letter to investors, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company saw lower-than-expected sales primarily in China. Cook told CNBC’s Josh Lipton that the trade dispute with the U.S.

Buy the S&P 500 at the close every day and sell it at the next open. Sounds wacky? You could have outperformed the market by 20 percent. According to Bespoke Investment Group, if one had implemented this so-called after hours strategy every day in 2018, it could’ve posted a 13.3 percent return. “This has really

Everything was going right for the stock market until Oct. 3rd. Then everything went wrong. Up to that point, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had been up about 8 percent for the year — a solid gain if not quite as gaudy as the year before. More importantly, the fundamental backdrop was solid: The economy

Investor Peter Boockvar believes the stock market’s wild swings are evidence of a bear market. Boockvar recently told CNBC that the recent monster rallies do not signal the bulls are back. He noted bull market moves are more methodical. “We are in a bear market, and a bear market is not just going to end

Historic swings in stocks this month have shaken many a bull’s faith in the market. Not entirely so for Raymond James’ chief investment strategist Jeffrey Saut, who sees years left in this bull market. But that prediction comes with a caveat. “Longer term secular bull markets tend to last 15, 16, 17 years — the

The market will probably rally, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the bottom is in, top technical analyst Ralph Acampora told CNBC on Friday. In fact, right now he sees a bear market for stocks. The market began its wild week with a massive sell-off on Monday that saw the S&P 500 enter bear market territory.

Investors should be careful as the recent spike in market volatility is far from normal, according to the manager of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, which has more than $200 billion in assets. “The last few days have been abnormal volatility,” Christopher Ailman, chief investment officer at CalSTRS, told CNBC during a special aired

In the dust of Wednesday’s stunning 1,000-point market gain could be the makings of the long-awaited Santa Claus rally. Though the jolly old elf traditionally visits the public before Christmas, he generally doesn’t come to Wall Street until the last week of the year. With just four trading days left, including Wednesday, it was about

U.S. market indicators are signaling that the economy could slow in 2019, former deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman told CNBC on Monday as markets closed early ahead of Christmas. The major averages saw the worst Christmas Eve trading session in history as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed over 650 points and the S&P 500