General Electric’s troubles have been followed by many, but two Wall Street analysts have correctly called the industrial’s prolonged downfall every step of the way, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. Stephen Tusa, an analyst at J.P. Morgan, and John Inch, a Gordon Haskett analysts formerly of Deutche Bank, “have been negative on GE for ages

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Power lines rest on cars that were burned by the Camp Fire on November 10, 2018 in Paradise, California.  PG&E’s stock has lost more than half its value this week as shareholders flee the utility amid concerns that its equipment may be partly responsible for the most destructive wildfire in

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments about the U.S. economy on Wednesday may have been the central bank chief’s first real acknowledgment of an economic slowdown, CNBC’s Jim Cramer says. “It’s the first time that I’ve actually heard Jay Powell say, ‘You know what? We’ve got to be careful, because there are signs of the

Things may be looking up for U.S.-China trade relations, which in turn is good for networking hardware colossus Cisco Systems, Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins told CNBC on Wednesday. “We’re beginning to hear some positive sound bytes around this,” Robbins told Jim Cramer in an exclusive “Mad Money” interview. “I’m optimistic that we’ll get to

The iPad maker is morphing from a business propelled by the volume of devices it ships into one that stresses luxury products and software sales. That evolution has been marked by shockwaves for much of the technology space, with several of Apple’s largest semiconductor suppliers noting marked declines in order volume. Apple shares dropped by

In an uncertain investing environment, CNBC’s Jim Cramer likes to highlight “the best of the best” of the “slowdown plays,” or stocks that do well in a weaker economy. So, on Tuesday, the “Mad Money” host profiled the turnaround at Bausch Health Companies, the drugmaker formerly known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Under the leadership of Chairman

Dropbox Inc.: “We talked to [CEO] Drew Houston when we were out at Dreamforce. He told a great story and then we got this incredible tech sell-off. Then he reported and the numbers were great. Buy, buy, buy!” Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile: “We’re going to stay away from that. Known stories mean no

Wall Street is crazy for punishing Home Depot for a great quarterly earnings report, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued on Tuesday. “Home Depot was not dead,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street” as the Dow component was falling sharply. For Advanced Auto Parts to be up so strongly “on a very small comp beat and

In times of stock market volatility, investors tend to flock to “safe” stocks that offer steady growth and high dividends. But high-yielding securities can come with unexpected risks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned Monday as stocks traded lower. “The risks are enormous if you don’t know the pitfalls,” he told investors. “As much as we love

While Starbucks can’t shield itself from the outcomes of the U.S.-China trade war, the company can continue to play “the long game” when it comes to China, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson told CNBC on Monday. “We haven’t seen any significant impacts from the geopolitical situation between the U.S. and China, but that said, we’re not

Apple and other big tech names need to recover for the overall stock market to rebound, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “FAANG cannot keep rolling over,” Cramer said on “Fast Money: Halftime Report.” (FAANG, a term coined by Cramer, stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google-parent Alphabet.) The tech-heavy Nasdaq led Wall Street lower,

Larry Glazer believes a bullish scenario is unfolding on Wall Street, just in time for the holidays. The $3 billion money manager points to impending Washington gridlock as a major factor in his optimism. The polarized result of the midterm election, which saw the House swing to Democratic control but preserved the GOP’s hold on

Crude oil ended Friday with its 10th straight session of losses, a losing streak not seen in more than 34 years. Those losses have pushed it deeper into a bear market, having plunged nearly 22 percent from its 52-week high. Such a steep sell-off has made a mess of the commodity’s charts, says Matt Maley,

Square Inc.: “I’ve going to give you the two Squares. There’s the Square from the point of view of the businessperson, and they are spending a lot of money to be able to win in the arms race. And then there’s the Square from the point of view of the stock, and people say they’re

While CNBC’s Jim Cramer was blown away by the recent “incredible resurgence” in shares of Crocs, the shoemaker behind the ubiquitous rubber clogs loved by kids and teens, he still wouldn’t recommend the stock. “I think the company deserves a lot of credit for this turnaround, but I wouldn’t buy the stock of Crocs unless

Walmart: Cramer awaited another great quarter from Walmart, which he said could be bolstered by online sales. He’ll be listening for two things on the company’s post-earnings conference call: tariff talk, as China is a major source of Walmart’s merchandise, and comments on the state of the U.S. economy. Applied Materials: Semiconductor equipment maker Applied

“While current U.S. growth remains above‐trend, helped by fiscal stimulus, this positive impulse is peaking now, and will combine with an increasing drag from tightening financial conditions,” Loeb said in a letter dated Friday. “We have delevered our portfolio, reduced our tech exposure meaningfully, and grown our short book. We expect to be net sellers

Karl Mondon | Digital First Media | The Mercury News | Getty Images  Firefighters begin a back burn against the Camp Fire on Pentz Road south Paradise, Calif., November 8, 2018.  Shares of PG&E plunged more than 12 percent on Friday as three simultaneous wildfires continued to rage through California. The decline put the stock

The homebuilders are getting crushed this year. The XHB homebuilders ETF and ITB home construction ETF are both tracking for their worst years since 2008, the middle of a housing crisis that demolished the group. They now face a make-or-break level, said Todd Gordon, founder of TradingAnalysis.com. “We are deeply into oversold support here. We

Buy-and-hold billionaire Ron Baron predicted on Friday that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will reach 500,000 in the next 50 years. Speaking from his annual investment conference in New York, Baron told CNBC the stock market reflects the economy. Therefore, he argued, if gross domestic product doubles every 10 years, so will the market. Extrapolating

The rise of exchange-traded funds has made entire groups of stocks “nothing but chits in a bizarre game of stock market roulette,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “The FANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet — are in 10 different ETFs, so on any given day, their movements tend to be driven

Amazon’s next big move could be taking on the giants of the delivery industry, RBC Capital Markets’ Mark Mahaney told CNBC on Thursday. “There’s another investment cycle coming, and I bet you it’s around shipping and them actually coming out and directly competing with FedEx and UPS,” the lead internet analyst said on “Power Lunch.”

Financials are lagging the market after falling nearly 10 percent from highs, while banks have tumbled 14 percent. Mark Newton, president of Newton Advisors, is long-term bullish on financials but sees recent weakness as a reason for caution. “I still believe that financials are trending higher, but we’re really within a downtrend that began at

Cisco Systems Inc.: “The CSCO kind should be bought right here. I’m telling club members of ActionAlertsPlus.com, ahead of next week’s big call, [to] buy, buy, buy! [CEO] Chuck Robbins is good.” Albemarle Corp.: “It had good numbers. It’s straight up. I still like it here. The numbers were terrific. Some people didn’t like the

The stocks of cloud companies like New Relic and Twilio are ripe for buying after a brutal series of October sell-offs, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. October was the worst month for the broader technology sector since the depths of the financial crisis, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite seeing its most drastic drop since November

Xilinx has hired Barclays to advise on a bid to acquire Mellanox after approaching the chipmaker with an offer, according to people familiar with the matter, continuing a trend of consolidation in the semiconductor industry. A deal isn’t imminent and may not come together, said the people, who asked not to be named because the

There will be winners and losers in the stock market following Republicans and Democrats splitting Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The big winner could be the stock market overall as a hamstrung government leaves in place much of what President Donald Trump has accomplished, but also keeps in check on some of his more

Celgene Corp.: “I still don’t have a catalyst to be able to buy this stock. It just has acted so, so badly. Maybe if the Democrats take the House, people will buy it, but it’s not my cup of tea.” BlackRock Inc.: “Look, it now yields 3 percent. [CEO] Larry Fink is real smart. I

The midterm elections are clouding the market’s outlook on Tuesday, but one technician sees a bullish signal hiding in the charts. “Looking at the put/call ratio, you’re looking at very high levels of pessimism,” Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer, said Monday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.” “What that put/call ratio does is it’s

During volatile trading days with conflicting signals, investors need “some sort of totem that can help point us in the right direction,” said CNBC’s Jim Cramer. The “Mad Money” host suggests that investors look out for large insider buying. While insiders sell for all kinds of reasons, they only buy for one reason: “to make