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☆ Jim Cramer reviews 10 stocks that perform well just after the start of a cutting cycle
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday reviewed stocks that have historically performed well just after the Federal Reserve embarks on a cutting cycle and chose his favorites. Using data compiled by CNBC Pro, Cramer discussed the top 10 stocks with the median best performance during three months after an initial cut over the past 40 years. "Now that the Fed's started cutting rates with a bang, you need to think about what kind of stocks will work best in what I consider to be a new regime. Our friends as CNBC Pro got you started with the ten stocks that've done best during the first three months after a rate cuts, going back to '84," he said. "But when you go through their current circumstances, the only ones I can fully endorse are Apple, Target and Textron, in that order."

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Cramer, –, Sarah Min Organizations: CNBC Pro, Apple, Target, Textron

☆ Jim Cramer explains why stock splits can bring gains
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Using Nvidia 's announcement last week of its 10-for-1 stock split as an example, CNBC's Jim Cramer explained why such moves can give companies a boost. "In theory, stock splits, they shouldn't matter at all," he said. "But if you just look at the stock splits that've been announced … they clearly don't hurt." Cramer explained that companies usually split stock to make shares with "terrifying price tags" more available to regular investors. While Cramer stressed that stock spits don't guarantee gains, he said a company's shares often do rise after such an announcement.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, …, Cramer Organizations: Nvidia, Walmart, Lam Research Locations: Chipotle

☆ The $21 billion influencer industry has gone completely off the rails
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Influencer marketing is booming, and brands spend billions to promote products with a personal touch. But these days, the industry of influencer marketing is completely off the rails. Since 2016, the dollars driving the influencer marketing industry have ballooned from $1.6 billion a year to an estimated $21.1 billion in 2023, according to Influencer Marketing Hub. Marketers, brands, influencers, and platform companies all have opportunities to exploit one another to varying degrees of harm." It's not great for consumersDespite the money flying around, the FTC only provides basic guidelines about disclosure requirements for influencer marketing to protect consumers of their content.

Persons: —, Emily Hund, Hund, David Camp, Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Brooke Shields, Calvin Klein, isn't, It's, Kim Kardashian, influencer Chiara Ferragni, Lindsay Lohan, DJ Khaled, Naomi Campbell, Kardashian, Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light, Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump Jr, Camp Organizations: Service, Business, Social Media, Harvard Business, CBS News, Nike, Salton, FTC, SEC, Consumer, NBC Locations: influencers, California

☆ Cramer says mixed start to earnings season suggests Fed’s move in March is uncertain
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer suggested an uneven start to earnings season makes the Federal Reserve's March decision on interest rates hard to predict. Cramer unpacked earnings results from some of the many companies that reported on Tuesday. Higher rates lead DR Horton to offer mortgage incentives so that customers would buy homes, Cramer said. But some companies' reports showed inflation is still a real issue, he added. "We have so many stocks that've rallied because buyers were betting on low inflation, a strong economy, and a series of rate cuts," Cramer said.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Cramer, Horton, Greg Hayes, DR Organizations: DR, GE

☆ Jim Cramer’s guide to investing: Pay attention to big insider buying
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-26 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

But sometimes it's worth buying some stock at the top, especially if a company engages in significant insider buying. Not to be confused with insider trading, insider buying is based on public information and occurs when executives buy shares in their own company. Insider buying can signal that a company expects its stock's value to increase. Investors are right to be skeptical when it comes to insider buying, Cramer said. Crucially, it's the volume of the insider buying that declares its sincerity," Cramer said.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, there'll, Cramer, that's

☆ The death of downtowns
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . But the number of empty storefronts overwhelming downtowns isn't just a product of the post-pandemic world. When it comes to local downtowns, not all small businesses are created equally. A homebuilder executive breaks down the do's and don'ts that've helped her clients lower rates from 8% to 4.875%.

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☆ Jim Cramer says this earnings season might be 'a rough one'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday said he thinks the upcoming earnings season might be tough thanks to continued inflation, as well as new weight loss drugs seeding fear for investors in the food and beverage sector. Cramer said the market is facing an "unforgiving backdrop" that may cause many on Wall Street to interpret earnings negatively. He also also highlighted PepsiCo , one of the first big companies to report earnings this season. Cramer also said many might see PepsiCo's price-to-earnings multiple as too high, trading at more than 20 times earnings. However, Cramer said investors should still be wary of being too negative.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Cramer, Price Organizations: Treasury, PepsiCo

☆ Jim Cramer sees 'plenty of tinder' that could spark a market rally, including the jobs report
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday he sees conditions that could spur a stock market rally, following a challenging few weeks on Wall Street. "We certainly have plenty of tinder for a rally — there are some Kingsfords lying around, maybe even a Duraflame or two," he said. However, he added that this potential economic weakness could hurt plenty of sectors, including retailers, banks and housing. But this weakness soon gave way to a tech-fueled rally, he said. He added that he's not sure whether the "uniform negativity" on Wall Street — especially talk of declining bond prices — means a bottom, but to him, it's a possibility.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Cramer, Friday's, he's, We'll Organizations: Federal, Nasdaq, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta

☆ Jim Cramer’s guide to investing: How to identify 'garden-variety' pullbacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer explained to investors how to identify "garden-variety" market pullbacks and even find buying opportunities in these declines. "There are all sorts of sell-offs, but unless they involve systemic risk — which is increasingly rare, like in 2007, 2009 — they're going to prove to be buying opportunities long term," Cramer said. Sell-offs from overseas can also create buying opportunities, Cramer said, but warned investors not to start buying hand over fist and to wait to see if there will be a bottom. Politics can also play a role in market declines, Cramer said. To Cramer, politics may be a reason to sell some stocks, but rarely are they a reason to sell everything.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, —, Cramer

☆ Bitcoin had a big drop late last week. Here's what sparked it, and why that volatility can persist
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Bitcoin's back to its volatile ways after its big move down late last week — but not for the reason investors expected. Aside from the mismanaged crypto lenders (and FTX) that plagued the crypto market in 2022, the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting rate hiking campaign played a big part in bitcoin's downward price pressure. "The volatility will have a persistence if we're going to stay here at an elevated real rate environment," he told CNBC. Even if the Fed doesn't raise interest rates anymore, the crypto space seems more focused now on real rates and keeping them elevated to fight inflation. Having institutions with an established long core holding would act as a stabilizing force for Bitcoin, Connors added.

Persons: it's, Mark Connors, 3iQ, We're, headwinds, Connors, It's, that've, Bitcoin, —, Jeff Cox Organizations: CNBC, SEC, Fidelity Locations: BlackRock

☆ Cramer says investors need to buy stock before its big move, not after
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday reminded investors they need to buy into companies before their stock sees a big move, not after. According to Cramer, it's better to accept you've missed the mark instead of buying stock after it has already surged. He recommended that investors closely follow news about companies they believe will be successful, like he did with Eli Lilly, to predict big stock moves. "You don't buy the stock of Lilly here — the stock jumped nearly 15% yesterday, for heaven's sake." The energy drink maker's stock soared over 20% Wednesday, but Cramer doesn't think it's time to buy yet.

Persons: CNBC's Jim Cramer, Cramer, it's, you've, Eli Lilly, he's, Eli Lilly's, Mounjaro, I'm, you'll Locations: Lilly

☆ Putin has a secret plan to squeeze Western companies as they leave Russia by seizing their assets at bargain prices, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

According to the report, the measures are designed to punish countries that seize Russian assets, and reward those which don't. Western companies that've stayed in Russia have made significant profits there, indirectly helping the Kremlin fund its war. Western companies collectively contributed more than $3.5 billion to the Russian state in 2022, Russian independent outlet Novaya Gazeta reported. The new measures Putin signed could be interpreted as a way of making it more difficult for firms to leave. Earlier in June, the Russian government sought to raise $4 billion by imposing a windfall tax on large Russian companies, Insider reported.

Persons: Putin, —, Vladimir Putin, they'd, that've, Dmitry Peskov, Peskov Organizations: Service, Financial Times, McDonalds, Ikea, Kremlin, Novaya Gazeta Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, AFP

☆ Putin accuses the West of creating Nazis while comparing the war in Ukraine to WWII, in what experts are calling a perversion of history
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He sought to portray the war in Ukraine as part of a plot to destroy Russia. Putin has sought to portray the war in Ukraine as a battle against Western powers who he claims are determined to destroy Russia. A real war has been unleashed against our Motherland," he said during a parade in Moscow on Tuesday. During the war, Russia was allied against fascist powers with Western powers including the UK and US. "They've even said that the West created Nazis," he added, calling it a "grotesque perversion of and distortion of history".

☆ I'm a 22-year-old Airbnb manager who charges guests a $250 cleaning fee — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"We raised the fee for many reasons, including to pay our cleaner a better wage," Laatz said. For the past year, I've been in charge of managing two Airbnb properties that my dad owns in Kauai, Hawaii. As the manager, I help guests with the check-in process, arrange for the handyman to come, and schedule cleanings in between stays. But luckily we do have insurance, which comes in handy for broken items that guests won't pay for. That would hurt our business more than a high cleaning fee.

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reported that the charges against Bankman-Fried include wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and money laundering. Neither the Attorney General of the Bahamas nor the Royal Bahamas Police Force would confirm the nature of the charges against Bankman-Fried. "I didn't ever try to commit fraud," Bankman-Fried said. The CFTC and lawmakers have begun their probes into FTX and Bankman-Fried, who told Sorkin he was down to his last $100,000. Failed lender BlockFi sued Bankman-Fried in November, seeking unnamed collateral that the FTX founder provided for the crypto lending firm.

☆ Wall St drops as focus shifts to Fed rate decision
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Amruta Khandekar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A policy decision from the Fed is due on Wednesday, with investors expecting a fourth straight 75-basis point interest rate hike to curb decades-high inflation. Among S&P 500 sectors, information technology (.SPLRCT) and communication services (.SPLRCL) were the lead decliners, falling 1.2% and 1.5%, respectively. Meanwhile, traders' bets of a 50 basis point rate hike in December stood at 44.6%, according to CME Group's Fedwatch tool. Among single stocks, TuSimple Holdings (TSP.O) plunged 46.8% after the trucking firm said its board terminated its chief executive officer. The S&P index recorded 22 new 52-week highs and seven new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 101 new highs and 79 new lows.

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