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CNBC’s Jim Cramer would buy shares of Cisco on Friday if stocks continue their sell-off, he told a caller on Thursday. “If you asked me which stock to buy if we have another sell-off tomorrow, I am going to say Cisco, because you know I’m trying to make that my biggest position because you’re a

After years of struggling to compete with lower-cost Chinese counterparts, European telecommunications companies Nokia and Ericsson stand to win big from the U.S.-China trade war, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued Wednesday. “These once-beleaguered companies now have a chance to win the race for 5G supremacy,” he said on “Mad Money.” “Their equipment might be more expensive

CNBC’s Jim Cramer has concluded that running a profitable, growing business in this market is kind of like walking a tightrope, with value investors who want to see cost-cutting on one side and growth investors who want to see spending on the other. “Keeping both groups happy is a real high-wire act — in all

NBC Sports’ Golf Channel is partnering with four-time major champion Rory McIlroy to debut a subscription service that will give customers one round of golf a month, more than 4,000 hours of instructional videos and discounts at resorts and clubs. GolfPass, which NBC is officially launching on Tuesday, will cost $9.99 per month or $99

The markets have surged into the new year with the S&P 500 Index posting its best January in more than three decades. Investor optimism of late has been fueled by a stronger-than-expected earnings season, and a Federal Reserve that is expected to pull back on plans to hike interest rates. The S&P 500 is now

If you win money in a Super Bowl bet on Sunday, remember while you’re celebrating that Uncle Sam can be a bit of a party crasher. No matter where you wager — whether at a casino, through a pool or fantasy league, or at your neighbor’s annual bash — the IRS expects you come to

Many market commentators will try to explain why the stock market kicked off 2019 with the best January in decades, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer stressed on Friday that the move wasn’t tied to historical patterns or the calendar. “You know why stocks had such a good start this year? For the same reason they had

Forget FANG — so far in 2019, the cloud kings are the technology sector’s real winners, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday after a strong, growth-filled earnings report from enterprise-facing cloud company ServiceNow. “These days, if you want performance, the cloud kings and their smaller heirs apparent, the cloud princes, are where it’s at,” Cramer said

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made the right choice in leaving interest rates unchanged and preaching patience — and it shouldn’t be seen as him “caving” to Wall Street, says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “Don’t listen to the Fed watchers who claim that Powell caved to the stock market or the president,” Cramer said Wednesday after

Even though CNBC’s Jim Cramer has long been a fan of Nvidia, a top chipmaker that dragged stocks lower Monday with a major revenue forecast cut, he understood why its stock has lost so much value. For one, the announcement revealed some “obvious negatives,” Cramer said Tuesday on “Mad Money.” Chinese authorities have unexpectedly cracked

Chinese stocks, especially ones that are new to U.S. markets, may seem like appealing investments, but to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, most of them aren’t worth the risk. In 2018, 31 Chinese companies had initial public offerings on U.S. stock exchanges, up from 12 the year before. The 2018 deals raised about $8.5 billion in gross

Stocks may be on the brink of another correction. Despite 2019’s strong start, the Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan believes the market remains in a danger zone, because there’s evidence economic growth is still decelerating. “The elephant in the room remains the cyclical slowdown. And, as long as that slowdown is in play… the

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch believes it’s premature to call an end to the market correction. Although stocks on Friday closed out 5 straight weeks of gains, Stephen Suttmeier, the firm’s chief equity technical strategist, is telling investors that stocks are still in the throes of a cyclical bear market. According to Suttmeier, the S&P 500

Investors looking to seize on the rise of over-the-top streaming services and increased cord-cutting should look no further than a few key stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday on “Mad Money.” While the devices and ecosystems that enable streaming — think Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Comcast, as well as smaller players like Roku — are

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