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for that, go to jim cramer >> it's something, melissa i was there when mr. picked blue apron and he told me, look, how can you lose with a couple dollar stock? my lesson to people out there is look at how you can lose he lost his crown because of a couple dollar stock. how much is there to lose? there is quite a lot and i want to emphasize that. i happen to like cannabis, but the cannabis stocks are like, how much can you lose? canopy is good i actually want to be more cautionary blue apron, please do not confuse these stocks with intel. do not confuse them with proctor and gamble >> these were all equally weighted we're talking about goldman up next to blue apron, someone said, okay, it's just a couple of dollars of my huge portfolio next to these behemoths. >> it's so right a lot of people do and weight it i'll put a lot of money in blue apron. in five days, kept buying and buying and three years, we bought it and bought it. and then went back, it was worth nothing. but kept saying, how much can we a million shares, let's buy a million shares when we were

jim cramer was stunned listening to him, how bullish he was about how things were progressing and how light heiser and everybody was working together as opposed to what we're hearing which is light heiser is on his own agenda and trump is not working together and that's the opposite of what we heard from larry. >> cramer saying people act like the sky is falling but he says the ki already fell in the fourth quarter and we're fine. it's being reassembled as we speak. the economy is seemingly in a good place is it in a good enough place to continue this rally. >> i thought we were going to have a recession wasn't that supposed to be in the cards for 2019 i think the important emphasis has to be geographically the u.s. continues to outperform the rest of the world. i think brexit is having tremendous impact on europe. you saw president trump walking away from north korea. i think that potentially has april packet on asia itself. the u.s. remains strong despite housing. housing is the weak spot in the u.s. economy right now so i think the focus needs to be u.s. centric once again because

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that's why i would -- >> is oil because jim cramer has been and said oil has determined the market is oil more important than china? is oil more important than brexit seems to be. >> i don't believe so. >> absolutely not. >> why not >> not a chance. >> look at the charts. hold on. >> the market -- >> i thought you were minnesota chart. put up a chart of the s&p 500 overlaid with crude oil going back five years. go >> minnesota nice. >> when you look at china right now and see the fact that their growth rate now is 28-year lows, right? what does that tell you? doesn't that make you -- you're an emerging markets guy. doesn't that get concerning and a trade war going on and different areas. i think because of that, china is the big story yes, oil is moving around here and there but i think china is going to be the draw. >> you're going to tell meo -- listen, with the exception of five years ago the correlation looks pretty strong. >> throw the dollar up against that. >> right. >> he just told you it is about to break -- >> i don't want to throw out the dollar then it won't fit my thesis.

my job is not to entertain but to educate and teach you call me or tweet me at jim cramer what will people pay up for? what inspires customers to pay more for product that may not be all that different from what the competition may be making? we saw the answer to that question today people will pay up for prestige. that incite to find much of the action the dow gained 170 points today we have one of the most amazing displays of prestige power i could ever remember with the stocks of ralph lauren and apple. three of the most prestige you s brands around. they surged 8.4% and 11.6% respectively both propollelled by better than expected numbers do you believe that? let's take it one by one you know i have raved to you before about este lauder leave it to the seller of clinique to put on a clinic. today this conference call este lauder delivered blowout numbers. how about ralph lauren the company's ceo who cracked for clothing and run away with ralph lauren it is reputation of ralph himself resulted in a spectacular quarter. new generation of people buying ralph. not only is the apple watch cr

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. >> see you back here tomorrow aw more 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 want to make friends. i'm just trying to 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 everyone is always fretting about these trade negotiations with china or more forceful federal reserve or the prospect of another government shutdown but after a day where the dow gained 118 point, s&p climbed and nasdaq advanced 0.8%, you know what i'm most afraid of i'm afraid of jeans. good price yep, i think the biggest threat to this bull market is denim i right now at this very moment am more worried about jeans than i am about china why? because this morning levi strauss the storied maker filed for an ipo where they expect to raise 600 million to $800 million. it's an exciting deal

"mad money" with jim cramer starts right now difficulty, hyper activity, impulsiveness. just look at the ones that rallied today. let's start with that. at the beginning of the year, apple preannounced a weak quarter. and it was primarily of course because of cell phones a gigantic decline in chinese iphone sales that caused a major freakout, and the stock briefly traded down to ten times, as usual, i said, own it, don't trade it, but you know what people did all right. down january 8th with the stock at $150, down 35% with the early october highs. i sit down with tim cook and outlined all the long-term positives that apple is going for, especially all the health and wellness applications. cook made it clear that the obituaries about apple were totally premature. the stock had been incorrectly written off and that's when you want to buy it mid sales were better in january. the trump administration breaks off trade talks with china, as that's still a major piece of business very hard to see because of the strong dollar. they said the watch was supply constrained, high qua

i heard jim cramer this morning saying, look, the raw material pressures are better and actually thehas moved through the system is that true >> yeah. no that's a great point so a lot of these companies are kind of behind the times, trying to take increases in prices from about six months ago that's not flying anymore for a lot of retailers looking saying, wait a second, taking prices up and other commodity costs are down what will happen going forward here >> procter & gamble was trading at all-time highs in the last week or so, so investors are clearly thinking ahead and seems like they think that proctor is going to push through higher prices who has pricing power? >> that's the vector we look at in terms of which stocks we like and don't like and procter & gamble, they're going to take prices up, for sure, but they're not going to take as much as other competitors who don't have as much, for example, cost savings that p & g we think some of the beverage names like a coca-cola or a pepsi or two players trying to take prices upper with attracted to that and pricing power there. and

"mad money" with jim cramer begins 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. i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money. welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to make you some money. my job isn't just to entertain but to educate and teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer for all the time we agonize over the prospect of a deal with china wall street doesn't seem to put a lot of thought into figuring out who wins and who loses if this is allowed to continue oh, we'll parse every word coming out of the trump administration one minute the relatively free trader likud low and mnuchin believe there is a deal imminent and next the hard-liners saying they'll keep the tariffs going or raise them until they make changes with the way they do business their economy is slowing while ours is doing just fine, thank you. >> that was easy >> this morning the averages opened strong after we h

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i'm learning and so are they thank you, jim cramer, aka master yoda, you're awesome. eah that's -- yep, that's precisely why my wife loves me so much and here's a tweet from russ benson, jim, other than banks who benefits from raising interest rates well you know what not really many other companies. i think that as a corollary, when rates go up, people think that the economy's really strong and therefore people buy the industrials. but the banks are the ones that benefit directly because they're able to charge you more when you go for a loan. they make more money from your deposits and they lend them out when rates are going higher. and now a tweet from joey and he asks, jim, i absolutely love get rich carefully will you be writing another book any time soon? i got to tell you something. the economics of book publishing has changed rather radically and i'll work my butt off on something like this and work most nights and almost every weekend and then i'll read the book and it used to be a very lucrative business to write books. now it's just a labor of love, and i hav

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jim bullard, thank you now to the other jim, jim cramer, equally prescient in a lot of ways.ometimes you just say it is good mr. bullard i think is very right. the fed has optionality. if we start seeing even hotter market, i think december job market, december industrial read was not good housing read was not good. the autos are not good there is hiring going on do you want the economy hitting on all cylinders before you decide we have to raise rates. i do not see the acceleration, i see a deceleration with the exception of some of these hiring figures if we just wanted to go by hiring, the fed funds rate would be much higher what would that do make it so we have less hiring is that our goal i think the economy can handle this rate. or the wage gains would be up. so can we just say it is pretty good and let's keep letting it play out >> yes >> i never understood that oh, my god, the inflation rate is so low, we got to do something about this and get the fed to raise rates that's not what the mandate implies. price stability and you can go to zero on unemployment if there was

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. >> to the new york stock exchange jim cramer, jim cramer, cramer, jim, what -- i've been watching your and your interview with chuck, you know, chuck robins, he seemed pretty confident. maybe good 18 after. >> jimmy dunn was funny too. >> he was great. >> wasn't he yeah >> he was great. >> so you heard the discussion with rich, you know. we got krugman today and andrew brings up dalios, a list of people calling for a recession >> i'm seeing it there i'm not saying it is my view just happens to be. >> we all have our own biases. can you name ten guys that don't think there will be -- anyway what is going to cause it, jim >> three tightenings and fail trade, no trade agreement. maybe we get one a trade agreement, which i don't -- look, i think both camps want a trade agreement one wants it on the united states' turf, that's where i am. united states terms and we'll have up profits this year and this whole slowdown of profits will mean another thing that people will say i -- i had been more bullish. >> can we be an island unto ourself in this country regardless of, you know, maybe weaknes

jim skee-daddy cramer. happy pre-birthday celebrations. >> whoa, man, coming up. want no surprises. okay, what's up? >> caller: sounds good, buddy. i just like to say hey, i hope you keep going with "mad money" for many, many more years. >> i hope so too i do it on sundayed. no one cease it. i do it from my house. hey, i'm cramer. my wife says yeah, okay, you're cramer go ahead what's up? >> caller: so i have a position in -- goldman sachs -- >> i like that upgrade i wanted to call aaron aaron levi that was a great update. i think the company should be acquired, but aaron is too young to want to sell. how about washington, joe. >> caller: thank you good afternoon i have a very quick two-part question on cummin, cmi. the first part of the question is how dependent is cummins on china, either as a supplier or an actual market >> right. >> caller: and how does it partnership with hyundai, how does that line up with in its earth-moving equipment all electric earth moving equipment compare with other entries in the same field >> look, it's regarded as a china play that

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and you just heard the halftime crew and jim cramer talking about video game stocks, because activision reports tomorrow. a bloomberg report says they could be laying off hundreds of employees. meanwhile, electronics arts one of the best performers, thanks to an upgrade by analysts over at bank of america merrill lynch. one of the best, one of the worst, and then another thing to keep an eye on the stellar performance of small caps out the gate in 2019 year to date. you can see the russell 2000 beating out the s&p's 8% gain, so that white line there, certainly one to watch in this trade. >>> welcome to "the exchange" everybody, i'm kelly evans, morgan stanley is declares the earnings recession is here, and more slowing economy news out of the china. spending growth fell to the lower left since 2005. seema mody is down at the new york stock exchange with a look at the slowdown concerns, seema? >> it's becoming increasingly clear that the global economy is slowing down, first china, now there's further evidence of europe feeling the pain, the uk posting the slowest growth rate since 2012

i think things a little over valued it's not even a safe stock >> we're going to find out jim cramerhis stuff. he will speak with the ceo tonight on mad money it's a gross margin story. gross margin is up year over year tell me who else in their space is doing that. >> who cares look at valuation. >> we'll find out 6:00 tonight with mad money better tune in weiss >> i'll be watching. i wonder if i can go there >> cme group is lower. >> i have a 7 series >> an average daily value of contracts year over year amy save us. >> we own cme. we have been trimming it the stock performed like a rock star last year we think it's time to take some profit >> amy, will you come back >> i will. >> she will. >>> gm considering a $2.7 billion investment in brazil the automaker went off more than 4,000 workers starting today kind of a weird combination. maybe not a great headline what about the stock >> probably not a great headline but maybe they see opportunities that really do present themselves down in brazil at this point in time talking about 2020 through $2024. several billion dollars. they mus

. >> that's why jim cramer was saying this is good news for walmart.scott, the answer appears to be make they're not >> they did cut prices when they were bought by amazon. >> maybe it doesn't matter to them >> i will say the marinara sauce went down to like $5 a bottle. i watch that price >> so much for the no inflation idea, that everybody puts forth. there's no inflation anywhere. this is probably a level of stealth inflation that not enough people talk about whether you do start going there and start paying more, you're going to feel it. >> let's talk about shares of electronics arts, that are jumping today, apex piled up millions of users. it took fortnite two weeks to get to that number dom, how big a deal do you think it is? >> they did it without a huge marketing budget that word of mouth spread so quickly like wildfire. it took fortnite to get to 25 million. it took them a week. >> we'll talk about it next hour, but i wanted to talk about chipotle highest levels in more than three years, but the stock is up 38% to start this year this is a big

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jim cramer welcome >> good to see you >> this whole weekend, it's my birthday weekend all my buddies get together. i can't tell you how this was the talk of the weekend. the retest i kept coming back and saying tell me what quarters were so bad. tell me why you think china will go bad tell me why you think it's so bad that we're 2.6 on the tenure they came back and said how do you think this is sustainable. you know we're going back to december 24th. >> why >> give me a reason and i'm willing. i like the earnings. i like low tenture i like the fact there could be a recession. i want every one to get this recession thought in their heads. >> if i said there's a recession. it's an earnings recession >> where >> morgan stanley makes the argument here. in the first quarter of this year, earnings will be ugly. you're probably going to have negative earnings growth >> i just don't see it we've had some announcements we're going to go to apple and say as apple goes, so the world. tony was saying it's over for apple. >> is anybody in the retest camp josh brown is not here today if he was, he

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. >> want to get do the new york stock exchange, talk to jim cramer who joins us now. afternoon, disney later this week what's on your mind? >> look, alphabet has a history of reporting a number i think is more downbeat than how the company is really doing. i hope they're able to put spin on why you want to own youtube we see they're getting publicity for it of their own. we would like to hear something waymo, other than the cost of click. the cost of click has this thing pegged into a second rate company when it is a first rate company. i just think that's a shame. maybe they can change that in terms of the acquisitions that apple is doing, that wants to think of, all of them -- everything in that piece i thought was wrong. the acquisition they want to do is health care they want to move health care to be more front and center >> you're talking about the jpmorgan report? >> yeah. netflix, i proposed they buy netflix at 25, they weren't interested why would they be interested here it is somewhat disingenuous. what they really want to be able to do is expand the service

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. >> what i'd much rather do and borrow jim cramer, you want to look whether you can get on an earnings conference call or read the transcript, you want to read the transcript and see the conflicts of ceos. we still have a pretty confident ceo consumer >> walmart, you know what they did today? live earnings conference call. first time they have done that in nearly a decade maybe that's confidence. >> long over due >>> what's coming up on the halftime report. >> next up, the big and bullish call on mcdonald's see why this analyst is so sure the stock is about to soar >>> plus, john's two latest picks in unusual options activity just jumped big time. >>> before the break, our data partners at kensho on what happens after walmart picks up 14% or more in two months. the s&p picks up almost 1% the halftime report is back in two minutes. xpedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. so even when she grows up, she'll never outgrow the memory of our adventure. unlock savings when you add select hotels to your existing trip. only with expedia. on car insurance? did the little piggy cry wee

i'm david faber with jim cramer, live from the new york stock exchange carl is on assignment this morningt's get you started for the day. of course, look at futures right now as we set up for the open. half hour from now you can see going to be higher i have a very keen sense for the obvious. european markets have been open for some time. let's look at performance there as we get closer to the session end there. you can see real strength there, germany's dax and the ftse up well over 1% ten-year note yield, 2.718 a look at crude falling a bit yesterday and today as we hover around $54 to our road map this morning, it does start with what well, a meeting actually between president trump and fed chair powell coming to light we'll give you the details and powell's vow to remain nonpolitical >> okay. >> shares of alphabet falling after an earnings beat investors concerned about how much money this company is spending is jim cramer worried? i want to know that. we'll find out and netflix is being called out by a tv exec who says the numbers there, they're not to be trusted. we'll break down th

i'm david faber with jim cramer.e're live from the new york stock exchange carl is on assignment this morning. let's give you a look at futures as we get ready to begin a new trading week here at the new york stock exchange. you can see -- i'll call it flat i don't know what you want to call it. european markets open for some time and euro stocks overall, down a little bit dax down a little bit, ftse the only winner so far in trading. that will conclude a couple of hours from now ten-year note yield, yields coming down, got that strong employment number the other day. there it is. 2.711% is where we stand and wti around 54.5, down a bit. let's get to our road map this morning. it does start with the rally pause. futures, as you saw, flat open, potentially being pointed to the dow and nasdaq coming off six straight weekly gains. the s&p, by the way, is at its highest level since the third of december 2018. plus the word of the day, defense. new england patriots holding the l.a. rams to 3 points. it was the lowest scor

jim cramer joins us now. he also said that talks have been productive.s >> well, i mean, i think that i want to hear from peter navarro because secretary mnuchin is obviously very pro deal. larry kudlow, very pro deal. we hear so many things from peter navarro saying we're not going to have this kind of deal. we're not going to give up on intellectual property. we're not going to give up on basically theft. and so what i hear is one side wants a lot of stuff bought. i think the mnuchin side is about having stuff bought from us and i think the navarro side and also vice president pence's side is to say, listen. this is about military, spying unless they cut that stuff out, we're not having a deal. you've got two sides of the camp >> it's interesting though because the treasury secretary had said to us that the purchase of soybeans, for instance, was the -- making a mountain out of a mole hill basically. that that wasn't a big thing buying stuff is not the heart of the deal and yet -- >> no. well, it's not ag. the idea is that they'll commit to buying boei

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dissipating maybe hay are not weighing on the market as much i go back to yesterday when we spoke with jim cramer, we highlighted the strength in boeing, starbucks. the semi strength is staying it's been with us for the better part of a week it's not as if we rebound and fallen back. the concern i keep hearing on the market and it's almost laughable to me is the underperformance the last couple of days in apple apple is so far up 7% year to date i look at every 13 f the mutual fund community exited enmass you're going to because of the significant way to growth and the s&p. even if it just stays here as it moves higher, people will have to rush back in again. we keep focusing on these negative things. >> why don't we talk about the substance of the goldman note. >> it's a no known >> we knew that. we did that services grew 26% last year. >> he put in an expectation. those are going to be the number now we're going to calculate those statistics and those are coming right in on the mark. it's not like they are coming in >> do we know the services business is slowing more than some were expecting? w

> scott walker here's what we're working on debating what the market's next major move will be, jim cramer the hour to help us do that. also following the chip stocks one firm jumping off the nvidia bus, wonder if it is time for you to do the same how about the tesla upgrade, do you think it can hit 450 bucks a share? we debate that on the call of the day on the half at noon. see you in less than 15 minutes. looking forward to being with jim today. >> sounds good, scott, can't wait >>> let's go to the cme group to get the santelli exchange. >> good morning, carl. wasn't long ago we looked at 2s, 3s, 5s with the yield curve in version. i was on the air that afternoon on "closing bell" exchange, and after i was off camera, e-mails and blogs and stories the next day because we all know when investors talk and eventually see inversion of the curve, all investing thoughts lead to the possibility of recession of course, that continues to be an issue today not so much because of the curve. we still see inversions, albeit flat with wider curves the point of this conversation, europe on friday, the

. >>> elizabeth warren charge to billion heir billionaires, what she told jim cramer last night on "madey. the dow coming off the best month in three years, and the s&p had the biggest january gain since 1987 will the hot streak for stocks continue? we'll discuss it after the break. the dow up 122 points. more "squa aeyafr is ♪ (vo) here's a question. was it necessary to create a luxury car more teched out than silicon valley? with a cockpit fit for aspaceship. hang on. radar that senses things the human eye can't. busted. and the ability to make a thousand decisions before you even make one. was all this, really necessary? what do you think? ♪ when did sleep become something that requires effort, like an obstacle we have to overcome every single night? with tempur-pedic, it doesn't. and now is the best time to experience the most advanced pressure-relieving material we've ever created. so you get the deepest sleep you've had in your entire life. this presidents day, save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets. there's nothing like tempur-pedic sleep. find your exclusive retailer

pemeantime, jim cramer weighingn on this market making his case for staying with stocks. he has five big reasons why. first of all, the fed. cramer saying they are backing down from the hawkish stance on rate hikes which has paved the way for stocks second, president trump. saying the president trump quote fundamentally wants to stock market to go higher. also pointing to low ip flags, strong corporate balance sheets, attractive valuations to round things out >> despite that case, our next guest has been bearish for month, but not all his calls have been playing out. he said the post christmas bounce ended on january 22nd, but dow s&p and nasdaq have all posted gains since then. up about 3%. sticking with his call, he says investors should expect negative returns in 2019. so let's bring him in. he's there the founder, ceo and chief investment officer of morgan creek capital management great to have you with us. the short-term call didn't pan out, but you're sticking to your guns and saying that cramer is wrong. so we sort of got a debate going on why is he wrong in your v

here's what elizabeth warren had to say to jim cramer about her tax issue last night >> i want these billionaires to stop being free loaders. i want them to pick up their fair share that's how we make a system that works not just for the rich and powerful, but works for all of us. >> this caught my attention. r reddit founder was on squawk box. he was asked about the next red hot silicon valley here is what he had to say. >> what are the most exciting things you are seeing that the rest of us have not heard about yet? >> the trend i'm excited by and it excites me as a floridian is the rise of elder tech >> yes elder tech technology solutions for the elderly. you have elizabeth warren calling billionaires and high earners free loaders what if the next one comes from making $1 billion on something that helps the elderly is that not considered someone you go after who is in charge of picking who it is okay to have that wealth and who it is not? >> she seems to be painting all rich people with the same brush. she makes no effort to separate out people who have gotten tremendously wealth

thanks to jim cramer's dogged pursuit. all right.tocks are set for a modest open after president trump's state of the union address. last night, the president delivered a wide ranging speech, which included his push for a border wall, more infrastructure spending, and a decrease in drug pricing. he also emphasized trade issues, especially when it comes to talks with china take a listen. >> i don't blame china for taking advantage of us i blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen. i have great respect for president xi and we are now working on a new trade deal with china. but it must include real structural change to end unfair trade practices, reduce our chronic trade deficit, and protect american jobs. >> and you saw mnuchin sitting in the audience there as well. he was a guest on "squawk box" very short time ago, jim speaking positively about the upcoming talks in beijing. always hard to sort of get a full sense, but certainly i think was -- could be interpreted positively >> i think there could be

jim cramer on twitter this morning saying when will investors jump into this stock plus, senator shumer on corporate buybacks now they're saying dividends could be next. we have to talk about that. >> dow futures indicated up by 73 points after climbing more than 175 points yesterday. s&p futures are up by just over 1.5 points or just over two points, and the nasdaq indicated down by nine points. yesterday all three of the major averages were up pretty sharply. nasdaq was up by the most. it was up by 1.1%. you see the pullback there the nasdaq climbing out of correction territory because of th

"mad money's" jim cramer is warning about running in to buy the dip. >> it's realistic to expect a couple more sessions like this one until the facts get more positive so until we either get lower prices or a brighter outlook, i think should hold off putting any new money to work until we get to safer levels. >> at the same time, bank of america merrill lynch said investors keep going for now and buy the market drop. what do our guests think rich weisz, chief investment officer with american century investments. we'll tighten up your title there a little bit i can't even pronounce it. ron insana, a key adviser to schroeder's, a global asset manager. would we be surprised after the kind of comeback in january that the market is taking a little bit of a breather? >> dramatically oversold to pretty overbought in a relatively short period of time and january was as strong if not stronger than last year, so it was a pretty fast start out of the gate this year valuations, obviously came down a lot but as bob pisani was suggesting, we're seeing an issue with earnings estimates being lowered fair

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jim cramer, "mad money" at 6:00 p.m. when we come back, the president is set to make remarks on border security and the budget. in a few moments we'll take you to washington with the start of that with the dow up 284 when you look at the critical issues facing our world, what do you see? we see breakthrough medicines getting to patients in record time. we see harnessing natural gas unleashing the promise of clean energy. we see engineers simulating the future to improve today. at emerson, when issues become inspiration, focusing core strengths to create a better world isn't just a result, it's a responsibility. emerson. consider it solved. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." the last of a long line of data points today, our february preliminary read on the university of michigan sentiment survey, we're expecting a number in the 93s, a bonus. 95.5 95.5 that's a nice number sequentially following our final read in january at 91.2 and, granted, this read mid-month will get tossed at the end of the month for the fina

elizabeth warren is calling outs billionaires for not paying their fair share here's what she told jim cramermoney." >> what i want is i want these billionaires to stop being free loaders. i want them to pick up their fair share that's how we make a system is that works not just for the rich and the powerful, but works for all of us. >> and you can see more of jim's interview with elizabeth warren on cnbc.com. and elf beauty agreeing to pay $ 1 million for violating north korean sanctions elf reportedly shipped 156 kits of false eye lash kits from two chinese suppliers that sourced materials from north korea those kits were valued at nearly $4.5 million >> thanks, frank it's not every day you get elf beauty, false eye lashes and north korea all together in one headline that was a fun story to write for the web. >>> let's get a check on the morning's other top headlines. >> we start this morning with new signs of a stalemate in the battle over the border wall. with government set to dry up in two weeks and another shutdown on the line. president trump is doubling down on his demands for wall f

time then you had some saying that switched over to the semiconductors our friend and colleague jim cramer you want to know where the market is going, you got to watch oil is there one thing, one group, one sector, matt, that you think will be the leader here? i do believe both will be very, very important we see the correlation with crude oil has been incredibly strong over the last year or more sometimes that kind of goes in and out. fades in and out usually once if gets a strong correlation that lasts for a while, and then, of course, the semiconductor -- the thing about the tech area, i definitely think we're going to move away from that big thrust back into the fang stocks. we saw that last year when we had the correction in february, when the market bounced out of it, the fang stocks led the way. this time they're not. they're not underperforming, but they're not outperforming. i think it will be more broadly based, which is positive, but we have to see how these semiconductor stocks do. they've seen a strong bounce, but it's starting to get a little bit tough on a technical side of