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welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. what can i say i called it. when everybody was freaking out that the president and therefore the market would resurge and response dow at one point losing nearly 350 points the averages came back with a vengeance. the s&p dipping. the nasdaq gaining .33%. this news allowed us to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. but not really a surprise. which of these two sessions was real this one, the early obliteration or this one, the fabulous nasdaq rebound? they both got legitimacy it would be easy to focus on what is going right, but that happens. we have to focus on what went wrong so long as you don't fannpani panic. we can imagine what could go wrong. so what is fueling the bearish argument here. gary cohn is stepping. that alone was to send the market into a tizzy. more important it is presumed that cohn, a mainstream centrist guy will be replaced with someone more radic

welcome to cramerica you want to make friends i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to entertain but teach you. so call me, 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me@jimcramer it is brutal out there if you take away everything we want to buy, then you're going to take away the bull. that's exactly what happened today. there simply weren't enough sectors to buy and it led to a tsunami of selling, with the dow plunging 724 points s&p plummeting 2.5%. nasdaq diving 2.43%. what do i say when i say they're taking away everything we want to buy let's start with tariffs the president is installing tariffs to combat the chinese. either way, you have to understand that any company with potential business in china is shake being right n shaking right now, quaking because we don't know what the tear evers wi tariffs will be on and how quickly the chinese will strike back, although they said tonight they would strike back quickly i don't know why so many people thought he wasn't serious. maybe they thought the president's advisers would talk him out of it. i spent four years

welcome to cramerica a lot of people want to make friends, i'm just trying to save you some money my job is not just to train but educate and train you. call me or tweet me @jimcramer all i can say is thank god it's friday in a week where the dow plummeted 5.7%, not since its worst five days since january 2016 we're thankful for this, the closing bell you know what, it looks like we're back in several sessions in one-day mode as we were in early february average swing wildly throughout the day. first it was a bull with plenty of green at the opening, then a bear late morning, swoon, back to a presidential inspired bull and hid yoes going into the weak end bear romp. s&p plummeting 2.1%. nasdaq nose diving 2.4% with some big names in there. you know what we had, we had four sessions between 9:40 and 4:00 and it's giving me a big case of whiplash i don't know about you initially things looked strong we got a terrific bounce off of yesterday's hideous 700 point decline. the nasdaq was in free 2358 at one point led by social media. it was then led by semiconductors then the president hel

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. what can i say we ran the gauntlet. this is a market where the main thin

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welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. how many times have we been through this already we arrived at a cross roads where the sky seems to be falling. and what happens at the last minute the sky decides to stay where it is and we end up rallying like crazy. investors could not make up their minds whatsoever about the risk of the sky plummeting dow crawling nine points s&p inching up nasdaq advancing is it too crazy to expect to get resolution in trade? in that case, you want to buy in any negativity as the dips represent real bargains buying opportunity as i have been telling you every night, the proximate worry right now, the thing that has everyone paralyzed with fear is that the president might put a 10% tariff on imported steel. we were the world's number one producer in 2000 and now we make up more than 1% of aluminum. and china 55%. forget that we have a possibility of resurgence steel. if the chinese gov

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. is it even worth trying to invest base on what comes out of this white house you know i think that's a poor strategy there is much more to this market than trying to fathom president trump. well, maybe we have just been given a gift i am talking about the news that larry kudlow is going to be the president's top economic adviser. kudlow is all about bigger corporate profit you may say so what. today is indeed the 13th anniversary of "mad money. but before this show, i worked with larry kudlow on cnbc. i have insight on what his getting the job means for stocks his philosophy in one word is growth our time together we didn't see eye to eye on much, the glue that held us together is growth. the nature of the show was simple people with two differing views. it often got heated. larry knew i favored higher stock profits and his stand on growth would get us there. as long as th

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. you can't just go back to a stock that you hated for ages clorox even as every company trump has gone after has survived the wrath. that's precisely what people needed to reckon with today a day where the dow dipped nine points up 231 points at one time. and nasdaq got pasted again losing the cramer fave stock rallied hard for a second day. on the other hand, amazon got clocked for more than 4% when we got word that the president is obsessed with this company and wants to come after it with everything he has. the problem is trump is motivated and not quibblings with prime the story headline is trump hates amazon not facebook. or if that is too harsh, maybe the president is ordering a bigger boat to take a bessos it was a respite for the sellers in facebook. we live in strange times the white house press secretary said there are no specific policies she says her boss is alw

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. what can i say we ran the gauntlet. this is a market where the main thing you have to fear is fear itself eventually, the positives prevail and we rocket higher s&p shot up and the nasdaq pole vaulted 1.79%. think about it all week this market was haunted by the specter of this cross the board tariff on steel and aluminum people were terrified. trade wars and instant retaliation that would cause our economy to collapse like a house of cards if you sold stocks while everyone was panicking, he made a big mistake. first we heard about a carve off for mexico and canada. i have to tell you, i called that and i have to say i said et president would be more flexible and i told you please don't freak out and don't freak out ahead of time. so many commentators have a tendency to get hysterical when something scarce them even a little always acting like this is the end of the world

welcome to cramerica coming to you from the beating heart of american invention and innovation, coming from one market, san francisco. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. chaos passes almost become routine now. we don't expect, or at least we weren't prepared for, you have to ask yourself what is impacted and what isn 't. nasdaq caving. we had to go through the same exercise all over again and the answer plenty was impacted and not in a positive way. today we discovered that secretary of state rex tillerson is getting fired when president trump tweeted and i quote, mike pompeo director of the cia will become our new secretary of state. he will do a fantastic job thank you rex tillerson. it is down right jarring and coming on the heels of a presidential decree last night that simply blocked broadcom from beingbroadcom fears that if broadcom bought qualcomm, our nation would surrender its lead to the chinese. talking about punishing chin

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. >> how does a market go from dismal and

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you put all this in perspective. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. all weekend. all weekend i heard about it i heard about the scarey tariffs and how it will destroy the market my twitter feed was full of how the sky is falling apparently there was no way we could avoid a date with disaster the president supposedly put us on a collision course with the new bear market. if this your idea of a bear attack, we clearly need more tariffs. heck, maybe a full on trade war is exactly what this market needs to go to the next level. all right. i kid. but the fact is, the vast majority of the experts turned out to be dead wrong on this issue at least so far. how could i have been bullish and them be bearish. first i explained the bear case is too negative. china is the real target of these tariffs. get that through your head even if they are going to apply to a lot of other countries and china did nothing to retaliate ov

welcome to cramerica, coming in the euro at one market i'm just trying to make you some money.y job, not just to entertain you, teach and coach you call me 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me@jimcramer it's different this market has changed. own it that's a huge part of the unease we've sensed every day since stocks peaked in january we felt it today, the s&p dipping. and believe me, these indeces were all over the map, which has become the norm. we know wall street's attitude toward the white house is certainly different. we have a commander in chief who no longer seems to have command of the stock market. in part because he's doing things to scare investors. everyone is afraid the chinese will do something to retaliate, even as i think these tariffs are sorely needed to show the chinese we are threw ough of th tactics. but here comes my co-host, larry kudlow as his chief economic adviser. before the appointment, many stocks were getting hit out of fear china might retaliate since the appointment, the stocks have been rallying. same thing goes for the big multi-national business all ov

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. >> how does a market go from dismal and dejected on friday to beyond exuberant on monday how do we trigger such an incredible rally with the dow surging 669 points. most since 2008. the s&p roaring. and the nasdaq we left the office thinking china was going to slap tariffs on the u.s. exports that would severely weaken the stock market yes, not the economy but the stock market maybe even cause the s&p to break down below its moving average. you laugh but the chinese communist party has learned a lot from manipulating. they knew exactly what they were doing. when china announced $3 billion in largely agricultural tariffs, that signaled leaders that they were afraid of us. no they took it as a sign that the chinese were slapping $60 billion tariffs on their own goods. no initially there was a sense of relief there china was so compliant. maybe china is a paper tiger after al

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. okay what the heck happened to this market today not long ago, it seemed like everything was a winner. and now there are winners and losers the dow dropping 150%. the nasdaq gained. did it finally dawn on people that the president mean business did wall street realize that building walls might not be the greatest way to promote international commerce that is how you end up with a day like today how else can you explain micron and only a handful of companies all related to micron followed in its footsteps the losers, endless selling like united technologies, caterpillar, honeywell the latter, boeing down ten points first, let me just say that clients need -- every company from every country to see if it is dumping here what the tariffs on steel and aluminum being the tip of the iceberg today's action seem to say the president is tougher on china and it is going to spill ove

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to teach you and educate you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @g@jimcramer how do he explain today's fabulous run nasdaq launching itself into the stratosphere, up 1.6%. simple this market's acting like a coiled spring. it's like a venomous snake, all coiled up and ready to strike. tech, health care, bang. and they've bit the bears during what amounted to be a torturous quarter but an awful nice span stocks have been on a benign poppy form to like the blood-soaked fields of flanders, with trenched warfare and endless artillery bombardments today we finally saw how they caved when the army poisoned with mustard gas drowned i just go over it all, but i think amazon defines the modern day stock market battlefield here's a stock that gave up 120 points in two days on rumors and stories on how president trump hates amazon, not facebook can't make it. yesterday the white house press secretary comes out and says trump's not targeting amazon, yet today the president twee

welcome to cramerica i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is to educate and teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer if i had to sum up this market in whole word it would be challenging. i say that when the dow gained 73 points. nasdaq essentially flat. challenging as in stocks can be up right from the get-go then we give up the goods. the averages come roaring back except we do it with fewer stocks rally and many names left behind welcome to the post-highs market where there's too many headwinds swer swirling from rising oil costs to west wing revolving door and failed take office and unhelpful government intervention. mixed in with all these negatives is the one certainty of this era, earnings are fabulous, people we have an endless stream of surprises. so it's the earnings you need to keep your eye on as we go over next week's game plan. on moan night oracle reports after the close. this is a cheap stock. it's got a strong old school software business and a cloud business getting stronger. i think if oracle can boost its growth rate by a couple of

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. thank you jerome powell for making this quarter point rate hike into a bit of a non-even. stock market roared going into fed meeting and sold back down after the fed chief gave a good account at the conference. dow slipping 45 points s&p 500 losing . %. nasdaq .26%. the rally simd silly i don't know about you hence the decline after. i think we cleared a obstacle. there is still the rest of the obstacle left to consider. tariffs, government shut u.n. dos, earnings disappointments. and they aren't going away just because the new fed chairman did a real good job on his first outing one thing is certain though, it's undeniable that rate hikes, any rate hikes do indeed slow down the economy which is why that rally into the rate hikes seems so silly to me. i think it's a good moment to look at a group that's been bouncing all over the place but has historically done very well f

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends.through trying to save you some money my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcrame with the dow tumbling 336 point, s&p plunges 1.42%, nasdaq plummets

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends.t trying to save you and make you some money. my job isn't just to entertain but to teach you call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer how can this market get it tallahassee back on track after a day with the dow gained 116 points but was up a lot more s&p advanced jus

welcome to cramerica i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is to educate and teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer f you think this was a boring session where nothing much happened, think again. something big happened today the right stocks finally rallied. even if it didn't reverberate that much through the averages, in a totally blissful way, the dow gaining 94 points, s&p advancing .45%, nasdaq .2%, for first time in weeks this market had good breadth, meaning lots of different leaders in lots of different sectors. the breadth plus the flexibility that president trump offered our allies to get out from under the steel and aluminum tariffs he announced today allow the dow to rally 200 points from its lows strong showing given how wall street was initially rocked by the tariff news. collaboration with our allies, carveouts for canada and mexico, this is what we have been calling for on "mad money" and it is what we got, allowing for broad-based move with some new key leadership what do i mean when i say the right stocks rallied rather than just tel

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you and make you some money. my job isn't just to entertain but to teach you call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer how can this market get it tallahassee back on track after a day with the dow gained 116 points but was up a lot more s&p advanced just 0.15%. what do we need to see before we can start believing that we are in a sustainable rally this market is going to need a big machete. to carve a path forward for the bull it will not be easy. we're in maximum controversy mode meaning it's filled with elephant grass, mosquitoes and trippi canopy cover making it impossible to blast the bears. that doesn't mean that nothing can go right it just makes the gauntlet more difficult. what needs to happen i'll trace it out. first the fed chief needs to blow us away with his statement at tomorrow's press conference but believe it or not this is the easiest part a lot of people are acting we're about to step on a land mine with this guy. but nothing could be

welcome to cramerica i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is to educate and teach you.l me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer f you think this was a boring session where nothing much happened, think again. something big happened today th

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welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm jaws through trying to save you some money my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcrame with the dow tumbling 336 point, s&p plunges 1.42%, nasdaq plummets 2.21% almost everything in this market has become controversial every stock. but before i get into controversies let's just say this market remains very elevated versus where it was a year ago so it's perfect law enforcement it le g legit to sell off a few. >> going into the s&p 500 still up for the month of march even down four times in five sessions it's perfectly reasonable to give that up rational to have selling and let and sure of something, the s&p is still up 1.5% for the year and nasdaq up 6.4% to listen to the people today you would think it's down huge we're going through a period where it was just too easy to make money to a new era where things are a lot more challenging so you aren't going to find many investors willing to step up to the plate on a

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