i think all of us have baba in ours, do we not? >> yeah.baba was in mine last year. >> i. >> know. >> i know early. >> yeah. no, yours mine and got in his tube. as we know. >> this is something i think there i story clearly is paying off and you're seeing their revenue. cloud growth was up like 13% in here. but also when you look at the e-commerce business, the idea that that was coming in strong means that the chinese consumer probably is coming in stronger than people are giving them credit for. right. so i think that's what you want to look at when you look at a stock like this. i would try to put away some of the political headlines. yes, there are risks, but i think you're ultimately going to be investing in this company. yeah. the chinese consumer obviously something everyone is watching closely. i don't think we know the full story there yet. well, coming up, security blanket stocks, the names helping each of our traders sleep at night in this topsy turvy market. that's up next. and here's a sneak peek at the cramer cam. jim's chatti

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baba demonstrated their very strong and dominant position in al, and they will be one of the clear revolutiond goldman sachs ritika gupta has more from new york. the trump administration. the bank will no longer have aspirational representation candidates from diverse backgrounds. the ceo, jane fraser. the bank will rename its diversity, equity on his first day in office, donald trump banned dei citigroup facilitates much of the us government's payment network domestically and internationally, and legal pressures. have already retracted their diversity programs, their diversity programmes, as well as tech giants like meta, amazon and google. companies to curtail their dei efforts via executive order, he can amp up the partisan political pressure. and some companies have cited those political shifts when scrapping dei programs. the maker of lays and 7—up will end workforce representation chief executive ramon laguarta said the move is to ensure that the company is "responsive to local markets". walmart shares have fallen by around 6% — the boss of the retail giant said it was an uncertain time

but i think wynn and the rally here could keep on going the way that baba has.'s going to be more stimulus for the us for the chinese consumer. so wind seems like a pretty decent one to play right here. >> all right. so that stock is up. meanwhile check out shares of hims and hers, that health company that recently red hot health company. its stock is down right now 3.5% after a downgrade from morgan stanley. analysts are cutting the stock to an equal weight or neutral, but upping their target price to 60 bucks to kind of catch it up. morgan stanley saying that the time. it's time for a breather. the stocks had a run so far this year. it's been pretty decent. even with today's pullback, the telehealth stock is still up a whopping 140%. so julie, is this a stock that you want to stick with or heed the call and just pull back? >> i think if you're going to if you're going to be sticking with it, you need to have be investing in tums while you're at it, because i think you're up for a pretty bumpy ride. it's not just that the fundamentals of this business are a lit

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last time here, we were talking about baba and trading summer in the 90s and looks great on chart and technically ready and david tepper came out and fully long china and helping that whole sector. i went long today. there's a risk reward setup heading into earnings next week. liz: taking bets on china and looking at global picture. what looks good to you? >> so we are tactically long europe and caught the whole move that happened basically in january. going for the tactical call and the market is very, very underweight and short europe and couple of catalysts and basically it's a german election and things could change and signs of green chutes and manufacturing globally and germany for example going to be exposing the manufacturing than the u.s. is. the same manufacturing and breaking about 50 going over late with the german manufacturing and they're both moving up togethers. >> levels are different and telling you it's the same driver and maybe it's the beginning of the lifting of this funk for global manufacturing for two and a half years and that's going for them on the pandemic.

and for baba.n you get cupertino basically beating their ai strategy in china, that's huge for both companies. and i think that's why they're going to bet on the winner. and that's what we expect by may. >> i said earlier. >> that i think. >> china needs us. >> we need china. do you think. >> there will. >> be a thaw? even though trump has been pretty? i don't know. he's he campaigns. on on things and then governs. maybe in a different way. but as trading partners we're important to each other. >> yeah. i mean. >> look, you guys need china, chinese, us. i can tell you in dc three weeks ago, i felt that here in hong kong and throughout asia, it's feeling like that as well. they more investors are making that bet. you know, that this is going to be more of a thawing. >> yeah i. >> think. >> so too. all right. >> dan ives. you're interesting. >> shot there. >> you're okay. >> right. this isn't. >> a you're not being hostage held held. >> against your will. >> or anything. this is i'm smiling here. it'

baba's bounce gets bigger. >> wow. alliteration. >> meaty beaty. big and bouncy. palantir cashes out to its worst two day run in over a year. and cruise stocks. tim. >> yes. how about them? >> they got. >> docked, they got docked. >> they got docked. i am brian sullivan in for melissa lee tonight. and as always, we are coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. and on your desk tonight, mr. tim seymour, karen finerman, dan nathan and guy adami. good to see you. i have not been here in. >> can we clap? let's clap. >> so this is the first time since that. >> new show. >> by the. >> way, can we start by saying the. >> show. >> with you. and kelly. >> is fantastic? >> it's one of the top 12 or 13 shows on the network. >> without question. >> you complement each. >> other extraordinarily well and i'm happy for both. >> of you. >> i don't know where this is going. he's so nice. what? a handsome guy. adami. thank you. all right. >> let's kick. >> let's around. >> he's always. >> like the live shows. already sold out. let's kick it all off with your money today. and

quickly check baba year-to-date. 68% and bring in sam stovall and market is a broadest mess going with45 and russell getting clocked 2.8%. re-should talk a bit about how baba and chinese stocks are bucking a sector here overall and what this portends for next week, the selloff. what happens on monday? >> they're headed for a full recession and look for sector performances today and it's the defensive groups and consumer staples, healthcare utilities, that are the outperformers and even though the michigan survey complied and inflation going to remain stick jim -- sticky and yields have come down. larry: look at what names to buy on a day like this. any ideas? >> it's the improved outlooks and tied to the commerce and cloud growth and international expansion and seems as if investors are rotating away from the u.s. into developed international and i americaning markets and china. liz: we don't know what the tariffs will bring and consumer sentiment took a dramatic dip and there's a lot of unknowns and i'd argue there's a lot of unknowns always. people should still be in stocks and it's

ali baba which does a lot of e-commerce work analogous to what amazon does here in the united states is a very strong e-commerce giant and even companies like tencent which provides the dominant social media platform of china, elon musk who now owns ex, formerly twitter and mark zuckerberg who leads meta which includes facebook, instagram and others, both of them have said that they look to tencent and what we chat has done for technical inspiration on new product ideas. so i want to emphasize again, china has some very strong, very competitive companies and the u.s. cannot afford to take its foot off the gas even for a second if we want to maintain our technological leadership. host: however let me was asked about deepseek during his confirmation hearing last weekend as part of a u.s. competitiveness when it comes to the ai space. i want to play a little of what he had to say and get your response. >> what this showed is that our export controls not backed by tariffs are like a whack a mole model where they get prevented over here and china figures out a way around it over there. we

doctor bishara baba is with us. he's the chairman of a group known as arab americans for peace. welcome back to the show. last time you were on, the name of your group was arab americans for trump. you changed it this week after those announcements about gaza. do you no longer support the president? >> well arab americans for trump was created to help president trump win the elections. we wanted an end to the war in gaza, primarily, and the president also promised us a lasting peace in the middle east that is satisfactory to all parties. based on those two promises, we lent our the president our vote. now, when he started suggesting that relocating gazans, which is against international law, against palestinian interests, against the continuity of a palestinian state between the gaza strip and the west bank, we could not come out with a statement under the title of arab americans for trump. first of all, we're not a cult. secondly, we want peace. we started supporting the president because we wanted peace. and as a result, we changed the name. >> so you say that you listed two o

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. >> between boeing and baba. right now it. looks like i made the right choice. but i'll say this. >> i'm. with tim and the big short guys. >> thought baba was. >> probably 40% too cheap. i think they're going to wind up being right. and when david tepper said that in september, october 2nd was the balls high for. >> all of those. >> names, you. >> heard me. >> they round tripped, but now they're back. >> on the horse. >> and this time i don't think it's stopping at 118. >> soccer balls. >> oh, yeah. >> okay. >> well, i think. >> he famously has on his desk. yeah, yeah. anyway. >> no, i'm long. as well. >> you know. >> i. >> agree with both. they said when. >> david tepper makes. >> a huge call. >> he's very good and not very. often that. >> he makes a huge call like that interesting to me. the stock continued to go lower. >> this is. >> a. filing that. >> ends as. >> of december 31st. >> right. so the stock went down from 85 to 80 and wouldn't be shocked if he added some more. i mean, if he loved it at whatever price, he loved it at 80in the bottom. so i. >> don

and ahmed baba, columnist for the independent and author of the ahmed baba dot news. all right, evan. nbc news is reporting that about 75,000 federal workers have accepted the resignation offer more than they had a few days ago. but far, far, far less than the target. what's going to happen now? >> well. >> this is. >> the most important. >> part. >> of this conversation. >> you're mentioning this idea. >> that it's the number is so much lower than the normal. >> attrition rate is. >> in a. normal year. >> for the. >> federal government. >> right. >> okay. >> can you just say that again? because people people look at this and they think like, oh my gosh, i work at nbc news. i work at jp morgan. imagine monday comes and 75,000 people resign. that's not it. the federal government has attrition. every year. >> about 5%. >> of the federal workforce. this is not. >> what. >> this is, but. this is one of the most. >> interesting parts. >> about this. >> type. >> of politics that we're. >> in right now. >> because when. >> you look at this buyout. >> offer, as they call it,

the seas presidents, felix district, katie did not attend. hiring the task, the reports from edison baba and african leaders had a lot of topics to discuss about the conflict in eastern democratic republic of congo, top to the agenda. you know, we are all very, very concerned about an open regional in east on or what is done to archie on this really to rate it the need for question on the need for m 23. i need to support us to these um, withdrawal from the go my airport and all the flight davis to leave this quote for you. monetary and trade routes to remain open and what some of them call i'm invited. countries supporting the m 23 level group to leave the d. c . 2 piece process as will be managed into one. the one to process tried to get the president's of d. c and for one to to talk face to face. then the is the and i rode the piece process very basic tasks, then that'll be processed as opposed to bring the different functions inside the shifting table so that we can have a position with the a government which is the government. and this includes the interest. but the season president

he's the one who wheels power in the country, all right, to out to 0 is out us on run petty the and baba to i just want to thank you. a step in protesting panama ahead of us suggest state monica ruby as visit relations between the 2 sides have been strained after president from threatening to take back control of the panama canal. all latin america edits less than human reports. now, from panama city, the american demonstrations in panama of capital, reminiscent of the last century when this country fought for sovereignty over the panama canal, the city is being plastered with national flags ahead of us, secretary of state medical reveals visit here to discuss donald trump's threats to take back us control of the canal. even american tourists here are perplexed. you have no idea. we don't understand. yeah, we don't know why the issue or 2 of the 5 ports that operate on either side of the canal run by hong kong company. a chinese company is also building a force bridge over the canal, and president trump says they present a threat to us national interest because china could potentially us

a pair of 6 feeds from baba rosalyn and who still shaw nowhere near enough for pocky spun all out the 260 to thousands of security stuff as being deployed for the event. this is party stones 1st staging of a major international competition since co hosting the 1996 woke up for an aides did not to have policies done for nearly a decade following the 2009 attack on through lancaster in the whole countries. it's like you pod including india who are preparing for they open against bangladesh on thursday, but they've refused to travel. the pocky stones, i mean, stable play will be games into, by even the final, if they get they, india will run is up in the previous edition of the 2 of them and held him 2017 losing stock. you saw him in the final to come, you're thinking that you want to lift the trophy, but there are so many things that you have to do right before holding onto that trophy. so i think i'd be mindful this will be on that. i'll, we can do things right on the feed and how we can move forward. so that will be our goal that we are thinking how we can think about just want to get

having the tacit reports from edison baba african that he does a meeting for the annual summit in ethiopia, capital i just by the conflict in eastern democratic republic of congo between government forces and one of beth dribbles is high on the agenda for one. does president polk army is here? but the electricity of the d. c is not international pressure is growing under 2 countries to end the violence the fight thing that these raging social scheme who is the result of the continuation of the enter the seal fences. so that seems to push the entire region over the press. the peace regional escalation must be avoided at all costs. there is no military solution. the deadlock must end the dialogue must begin. and the sofa daddy, daddy tell the integrity of the d. r. c must be respected or the summit is seen as an opportunity to discuss the next stage in the regional efforts to end the conflict. but some say the chances of diplomatic progress, a slim as the rebels as on. i cannot say that it's very clear. i think what is important is that it's a process on the meeting that goes hand and that i

in order to all of a human story in suffering of the baba simians was a can flute. i just, the euro. also, city, all this time will get across to 100 buckled, he's joining us live now from or off. i am again, more concerns about the fight that the sci fi might, might not hold. tell us how people they're feeling about that. yes robert, let's not forget that the ceasefire started quite a fresh signing from the moment it was announced through the time or the day we took effect. people were expressing their cautious optimism about the seas far. but for the past 20 days or so, there's been many violation by these very military and all of this has mounted to the point where people among their fear, there are 2 things, the standing which are the force displacement and the ongoing cooling. people are worried that if the ceasefire is collapsing any time they're going back to the same square for blood shit, and destruction. for an area that has been already adapted, stated the enforce displacement, the destruction, the mass going of people, the destruction of all means of lif

apple is partnering with ali baba up 2. 3% 3% to develop ai features for the iphone. downgraded guggenheim, it is down more than that >> activist investor elliot building at stake in this oil refinery pushing for a spinoff of the midstream business. david: the tough talk is that, donald trump sending a clear message, and release the hostages. >> saturday at 12:00, all hell is going to break out. david: more on trump's ultimatum to hamas and the fbi uncovering thousands of jfk assassination documents as a result of trump's executive order. we will tell you what we know so far. we have some surprises in there. donald trump wants to make a deal with iran. >> can't allow them, two ways of stopping is them with bombs or with a written piece of paper and i would much rather do a deal. david: we will ask senator mark wayne mullen about that coming next. i'm thinking of updating my kitchen... —yeah? —yes! ...this year, we are finally updating our kitchen... ...doing subway tile in an ivory, or eggshell... —cream?... —maybe bone?... don't get me started on quartz. a big big is

to make an upgraded version of the ai chat bot because they are looking to fight back against ali babaho partnered with iphones in china and deep seek, shares up 4.7%. lauren: down on the forecast, their full year revenue below expectations down 11%, corporate budget tightening going on. david: honda. lauren: they ditched their merger talks with nissan which would have created one of the largest automakers in the world. the reality is still there. david: good to see you. give us the highlights of what is happening. >> group of protesters decided to interrupt one of the witnesses given their opening statement. they were tossed from that hearing and watch this has the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee fact checks them in real time because they were protesting for aids relief in africa but watch this. [chanting] [chanting] >> i guess these guys don't watch the news, they didn't realize this was one of the many programs that did prove to be lifesaving so funding was restored. david: this is the new trump way of removing rowdy folks from committees where they don't want to be.

next version of iphone is getting ai in there and apple intelligence going to be thwarted from allie baba alibaba and access to the chinese market and challenges locals are moving away from american products and this feels coming through and tieups before and apple doing payments and trusted partner going for them to have and in general the markets going for iphone sales and upgrades and people watching for the next two quarters. david: do you trust alibaba, obviously apple does? >> apple trusts alibaba and apple devices locked down on the device, which people can trust the data. david: ray wang, good stuff. coming up, big money show cohost taylor riggs with a look at what's coming up on the big money show. taylor. >> david, john staffer is like the turn -- john taffer is the turn around artist and washington desperately needs it cutting doge and spending and if anyone knows how it's done and john taffer knows and we're getting comments about reciprocal tariffs and comments from trump as we get them and all of that breaking news. david: good stuff, taylor riggs, thank you very much. now t

naveen baba who stepped up as the interim head. >> thank you, doctor. i appreciate it. >> thank you for your leadership. and thank you to all the professionals and the entire team at h. i'll end with this. government works best when every department works well together. i've seen it in my first month as mayor and i know kunal puts it in action every day as the chief of health, homelessness and family services services. when you hear how dan's former colleagues talk about him as a person and a professional, it is clear that the spirit of collaboration is core to his work as well. the department of public health needs a leader who is ready to break down silos at decisive and offer innovative solutions that meet the challenges that we face. dan is that leader. with that i'm proud to announce introduce the new director of the department of public health dan simon. >> thank you. thank you mayor, for those very kind words. my wife kathy is here and my boys elliot and ali. hello, boys. elliot is six. >> allie is three. kathy has had to deal with ten years of a

for example, jack ma, one of the greatest entrepreneurs who started ali baba, he disappeared at one point for a while. it is like in this country suddenly jeff bezos disappearing and being quiet. he is not quiet these days, but just disappearing these people. i think we will put steve jobs in the cooler for a while. that happens in china. larry: the governor of south carolina disappeared. kara: right. [laughter] kara: so that is one of the issues. the other one is that, mark, absolutely, in an interview with me, he put out this xi ora media argument. we are the national champions. the chinese have run it. which is true. he said that to me and i go, i don't like the choice. i will take you up easily but it is like a bad date. i have to take the bad or worse. in the case of facebook, they are. they are information thieves. that is what they are. it is in a different interest from what is happening in china. i am concerned that we allow a foreign government -- the could not by cnn, cbs, the washington post, or anything else, so why should they be able to have -- larry: started showing cats p

walmart, ali baba, booking holdings and of course in economic data the fed minutes releasing wednesday all of this were going to do with the floor show. joining me i'm pleased to say slate stone wealth chief market strategist kenny polcari and interactive brokers senior economist josÉ torres. great to have both of you with me even though the market is closed we are open. start with me a broad picture, the s&p 500 that is close to where we are for records how are you gauging sentiment in the equity market? >> it feels a little bit tired to me we've been struggling with the 6100 range for a little bit unable to pierce through them we get economic data that starts to suggest that the consumer is taking a second look. with the strong end of the year end holiday shopping season i'm not necessarily surprised that we now see the consumer taking a breath or a step back, do i think it is the end i don't think it's the end but i do think the consumer is absolutely stressed-out and maxed out at the moment. taylor: josÉ, your thoughts on what is been arranged out as 6100? >> i think we need a litt

selloff in chinese companies because their big exported to us think about the stuff on amazon and ali babae buying so again they're getting hit harder than we are today. stuart: so for all the sectors everything is read about the automakers. >> i would guess a similar story gm talked about this last week they said they were in constant conversation with the president, i come with some facts, canada and mexico in 2024 gmm particular imported 3.6 million cars to the west that is 22% of the sales that is not small change are small potatoes. if we look at gm there downward and 5% on the day that's see the duration of this. stuart: i'm wondering about retailers we don't know if tariffs will be passed along to consumers and hurt the retailers. they're all in the red. >> retells the biggest margin business especially grocery stores which is separate than a traditional retailer like walmart, assuming they do not pass this on to consumers it would be hitting their margins if they can pass on some of the cost if there are any that go through long-term then customers would have to feel that. how much

being a black child in america and calling your dad and i want you to talk about you're calling him baba from tanzania. and that difference coming here there's so many things to about. but i want you, if you would, just one minute just for a minute, you're going to talk about your dad. but but go back to the white peril, because people are going to see that and they will certain things about that title talk about that type and your great grandfather's inspiration for the title you mentioned it was book but but i think people will be surprised to understand the inspiration for the title that your grandfather wrote that book about. yeah absolutely. so first i wanted to share how. i stumbled upon the book and, wanted to raise up mr. frank figures who was a parent in the algebra project and a member of the shady grove baptist church and participated in the national baptist convention. and so my great grandfather was also a member of the national baptist convention and was one of the folks that helped to put in money create, you know, the publishing of the national baptist convention. and so

i want you to talk about calling him baba, in tanzania. and the difference coming here. just for a minute, go back to "the white peril," because people will see that and assume certain things about the title. talk about that title and your great grandfather's information for the title. you mentioned it was the book, but i think people will be surprised to understand the inspiration for the title that your grandfather wrote that book about. guest: absolutely. first i wanted to share how i stumbled upon the book. i wanted to raise up mr. frank figures, who was apparent in the algebra project and a member of the shady grove baptist church who participated in the national baptist convention. my great-grandfather was also a member of the national baptist convention and was one of the folks that helped put in money to create the publishing house of the national baptist convention. i just remember as clear as day, mr. figures upper to me in the hallway at franklin middle school and asking me, mr. moses, is william h moses can tell you? he handed me the book and i said, i think

for example, jack ma, one of the greatest entrepreneurs who started ali baba, he disappeared at one point for a while. it is like in this country suddenly jeff bezos disappearing and being quiet. he is not quiet these days, but just disappearing these people. i think we will put steve jobs in the cooler for a while. that happens in china. larry: the governor of south carolina disappeared. kara: right. [laughter] kara: so that is one of the issues. the other one is that, mark, absolutely, in an interview with me, he put out this xi ora media argument. we are the national champions. the chinese have run it. which is true. he said that to me and i go, i don't like the choice. i will take you up easily but it is like a bad date. i have to take the bad or worse. in the case of facebook, they are. they are information thieves. that is what they are. it is in a different interest from what is happening in china. i am concerned that we allow a foreign government -- the could not by cnn, cbs, the washington post, or anything else, so why should they be able to have -- larry: started showing cats p

baba sent the hang seng higher overnight, too, and it's now up.. also watch the travel names today. booking holdings gaining on strong numbers, room nights, gross bookings and revenue all up double digits year over year. strong international travel demand was really the big driver there. you can see those shares up about 4.5%. >> weighting on michigan consumer sentiment a few moments ago. we'll get to that. actually 64.7 we have now is pretty much in line with actually just a slight miss from 67.8 expectations. we're going to couple that with the services pmi number along with existing diana scott that hey diana. >> hey carl. that's right. existing home sales in. january fell 4.9% month. >> to month to. >> a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.08. >> million units. >> that is. >> a much steeper. >> decline than. >> the street was expecting. sales still. >> 2% higher than january of. >> 2024, but that's not saying much given. the levels right now. this read is based on closings. so contracts likely signed in november and december, when mortgag

we also have some exposure to china baba and tencent. again you know what's happening there.s not that the macro in china is good is that you've seen stories that have been rerating around fundamentals. and i think sentiment got way too low. >> tim we're going to see you in a little bit. so stick around. thank you for that. a couple of pieces of tech news that are just breaking within the last few minutes. let's get to kristina partsinevelos for more on that. hi, kristina. hi. well, this is a potential landmark deal for u.s. semiconductor manufacturing. taiwan's tsmc is considering taking control of intel's factories. this is according to a bloomberg report, the trump administration we know we've been talking about this has been in talks recently with tsmc with the aim to increase american chip production here on american soil and maintain tech leadership in the country. these early stage talks could could see tsmc operating intel's us plants with potential backing from american chip designers and government support, so that all of the ownership would not go to a foreign enti

we knew it was going to be a bad place. >> meanwhile, baba, we mentioned before the bell talking about all kinds of things, including how much of gdp might one day be replaced by ai. >> well, yeah, they they were incredibly bullish on ai. and i think the man to i've studied david tepper very much ever since he was one of my myriad bosses at goldman sachs. and this is still his largest position. he i know that if i extrapolate jd, jd still buy pdg still buy hasn't sold any today that i understand. but he does have obviously a what i call portfolio management situation. the thing is so big after this run he did you know he came on our air, said he loved it, buy everything. and then it went down and he bought some more. so it is a gigantic position for him. if you see that he sell some, it's just strictly because it's huge. but boy does he like china. he loves ai and he just thinks that you got to have a big. >> exposure of china. >> again. >> it's interesting. you know, there's a jp morgan's got a note out today basically titled has the end or the retrenchment in the u.s exceptionalism t

baba is implying a move of about 10%, which seems big.50% in the last month or so. toll brothers implying a move of about 6%. walmart implying 5%, which is actually pretty big for a company that doesn't usually move that much on earnings. oxy's implying a move of about 4%. and the new ticker is x, y, z. that's that's block, which used to be ticker skew x. y z was always our favorite sort of generic ticker when we were saying buy x, y, z stock. but you can't do that anymore because now you're talking about block. i think you could actually get long. this one, it looks a little bit weak technically, but the fundamentals i kind of like it. i think you can make sort of a hedged upside bet by buying the june 87th and one half calls and sell the march 98th against it. you're going to spend about six bucks a contract that's the equivalent of $6 a share. to make your bullish bet, you're going to try to capitalize on the fact that the nearer dated volatility is going to come in after they report earnings. we call that a vol crush. and that sort of

. >> i would look at baba here. >> i wouldn't discount. >> china even with. >> the tariffs. >> steve bring us home. >> deckers i like this sell off i think it's a buying opportunity. >> thanks for watching fast money. mad money with jim cramer starts right now. >> my mission is simple to make you money. i'm here. >> to level the playing. >> field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. mad money starts now. hey i'm cramer. welcome to mad money. welcome to cramerica. other people make friends. i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to. >> entertain, but. >> to. >> educate and. >> to teach. you to be a better investor. so call me at one 800 743 cnbc or tweet me jimcramer. >> tonight i want. >> to share. >> some of. >> my accumulated wisdom. and there's a lot to accumulate in this business. >> there are so many different things. >> you need to balance in. order to be a great investor. >> that it can be hard to keep track. >> of everything now. >> and a lot of this stuff is much more. >> important than the day to da

and also joining us is beshara baba, chairman of a group known as arab americans for peace. i want to begin there. the name of your group was arab americans for trump. you changed it after president trump announced plans to take over gaza and relocate palestinians. why did you change it? do you no longer support the president? >> no. no, no, we changed that. we, after the victory of the president in november, there was no need to continue with the name arab americans for trump. and we were thinking of changing the name. however, when he made the announcement regarding the relocations of gazans, we wanted to come out with a press release, but we could not do it under arab americans for trump, because that would be counterproductive or contradictory to what we intended in our press release. so we changed it to arab americans for peace. all along, we wanted peace in the middle east. that is why we supported the president and abandoned harris and president biden. >> do you stand by that decision given as you put out, that the contradictory position of having a name like that, wi

. >> i would look at baba here. >> i wouldn't discount. >> china even with. >> the tariffs. >> steve i like this sell off i think it's a buying opportunity. >> thanks for watching fast money. mad money with jim cramer starts right now. >> my mission is simple to make you money. i'm here. >> to level the playing. >> field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. mad money starts now. hey i'm cramer. welcome to mad money. welcome to cramerica. other people make friends. i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to. >> entertain, but. >> to. >> educate and. >> to teach. you to be a better investor. so call me at one 800 743 cnbc or tweet me jimcramer. >> tonight i want. >> to share. >> some of. >> my accumulated wisdom. and there's a lot to accumulate in this

was significant that baidu, i guess, wasn't there, and those shares were selling off today, even as babag. so again, all the more important to watch these meetings. eunice, thank you very much. eunice yoon. meantime, elon musk's xi'e unveiling what it calls grok three today. claiming it can outperform all other ai models on the market. we've run the comps and we'll get you the key details, including how this factors into musk's face off factors into musk's face off with rival sam businesses and communities come together on tiktok. they don't show up like they do on tiktok. and i had all these people rooting for me on tiktok. empowering over 7 million us businesses. there's no way i'd be able to support this building or any of my employees. > that went from maybe a few hundred people seeing my product to millions. they rely on tiktok to succeed. i don't think i could have gotten this far if i didn't have that kind of community. small businesses thrive on tiktok. (♪♪) on nordvpn and encrypt your online traffic. get 72% off nordvpn and up to one year for free. with the. fundrais flagship fu