You often hear the word “reset” when analysts come on television to describe what’s happening now. That’s genuine Wall Street gibberish and, as you know, I don’t like that language. I translate it on the spot. A reset really means something bad is happening that has caught us by surprise. We can no longer like…
Jim Cramer on Sunday night urged investors to keep a level head, even as U.S. stock futures plunged, extending last week’s tariff-driven sell-off. “I’m not going to panic. I’m not going to say, ‘Get out now.’ I think you have to stay the course here,” Jim said during a special broadcast on CNBC. “Let’s just…
There was a better way to accomplish everything President Donald Trump did that caused a 10.5% decline in two days and left us wondering whether we could still crash Monday or later this week. All he had to do was agree with, well, himself because he repeatedly said he was going to announce “reciprocal” tariffs…
Maybe it is worth waiting for stocks like Wynn Resorts , names so cheap that they can’t be explained. On Friday, I spent a considerable amount of time with Wynn CEO Craig Billings at his incredible hotel, the gem of the Las Vegas strip, talking about his business and its cockamamie stock price. Wynn’s valuation…
Our president, Donald Trump , tells us that “what we are doing is big,” so there might be economic consequences to come that we don’t like. But he can’t change the plan, whatever the heck the plan is. Our Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, comes on CNBC and tells us that the economy has to detox…
We struggle not to interject politics into our stock selection because we know it rarely, if ever, produces ideas that work. I know it makes the job a lot harder. But you don’t pay me to feel badly about what’s happening. That’s not worth much, even as I do feel sad about the recent turn…
People love to talk about the straw that broke the camel’s back. I think an anvil broke the bull market’s back last week. A straw would never have done it because, until last week, I didn’t see a lot on the back of a bull that would cause a straw to do the job. But…
“My pathway led by confusion boats / mutiny from stern to bow.” That phrase, from Bob Dylan’s 1964 classic, “My Back Pages,” seeped into my head Friday afternoon, as I sought to reevaluate the role of tech in the Charitable Trust. We had just reviewed Eaton’s very good — though not excellent — quarterly results…
When we talk during the 9 a.m. ET hour of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” the morning show I love so much, there’s never time to flesh things out. We hit topic after topic: bang, bang, bang. Occasionally, though, Carl Quintanilla will serve it up, I’ll lob it back, and then David Faber smashes it…
You can’t ban froth. You can’t ban lunacy, especially when it pays off. You can’t tell the insiders or big data analytics specialist Palantir to take profits. You can’t stop the executives at Applovin from bailing up here, and you can’t tell the buyers of that mobile gaming ad software company that it may not…