Corrosion but the need to believe in something otherwise, youll miss out on amazing opportunities this market affords you and saw some play out even as the averages were not so hot. Those were well off the lows and i think we have a big problem here on wall street. Thats where im located right now, wall street but simply most people dont trust the market anymore they dont ceos. They dont trust individual companies. Just endless skepticism and little sincere belief. Im playing around a whole series on why we lost faith in the market most people have given up on owning pieces of individual companies, a lot goes down to the fact that daytoday action doesnt make sense trying to gain things. Not showing up or downs for reasons that have nothing to do with underlying companies. But there are moments when the market works like its supposed to i have two nondysfunctional examples most highly gettable. I know that because we own them for my trust eli lilly had a tremendous quarter. It could be
Launching its ipo road show, a blockbuster deal which could value the company as much as 52 billion. Were watching media names, wbd warning of prolonged impact from the strike while disney fires its latest volley in its dispute with charter. Its great to have cramer back in the chair. We missed so much last week, between lulu and the china names and chewy and wolf. First of all, its great to be back. Thank you for the wellwishers. It was a triple hernia. I managed to come through it in a way that i feel very, very strong. I always love september in our business because everybody does come back to work except for the people that still work at home. They want to get back to work. There are a couple of points we have to talk about. One is the bonds are going the other way. Thats going to be septembers headwind. Again, the Interest Rates are up. I think were making much too little about the strike, the uaw strike. By the way, the writers strike, obviously for Warner Brothers is important.
Elon musk is reportedly going, quote, absolutely hard core around head count and Cost Reduction as tesla plans for more layoffs. Lets begin with futures moving lower with the fed kicking off the twoday meeting. 4. 2 yearonyear, jim, maybe a little too low. The wall street journal this morning talking about how powell feels good about higher for longer. I still think march was weak and youre not going to get a really strong number from april. Housing, shelter, thats bad. Theres also an mcdonalds did a great graphic on squawk. Theres just this belief among people theres no controlling this thing. I think you do get control. One of the stunning things is walmart cant make any money because people are too expensive. Were in a period that people think its inflationary. That has to break. What breaks it . A recognition that we that companies cant offer what theyre offering. Lets take mcdonalds. Lengths say mcdamageds misses. Misses on earnings. Yeah. They have to say we raised the price too
Companys ceo as it also gets ready to report after the bell speaking of earnings, it is the busiest week of Quarterly Results, nearly onethird of the s p 500 and 20 of the dow are reporting. F apple and amazon lead the way this week. Lets begin with tesla, rallying in the premarket today, following musks visit to china. The company, winning approval to roll out its full selfdriving technology in that country, jim. This is a partnership with baidu, being called a watershed moment for fsd you need to have i remember when i rode in a waymo, which is googles product, you had to have the google map you just need this infrastructure in order to be able to make it. It was obviously being withheld. Is it worth 22 points . I think that people were short tesla, betting there had to be more lets say, more earnings problems i mean, theres an evercore piece, lowering price target, that was probably prechina. But david, there is a sense among the companies that make selfdriving that theres this holy
Would have sold immediately and you wouldve been entirely wrong. Thats because metas billionaire rival reported two of the best quarters ive ever seen in ages. Bedding like mad on Artificial Intelligence and the cloud and search just like meta but theres enough business for all of them. Throw in some tepid inflation data that helps with the rate cut and the market just roared. The dow gained 155 points. S p jumped 1. 02 and the nasdaq searching 2. 03 . I like that. This was a good set up. May be one of the toughest weeks we have seen in ages. That is because it is loaded with earnings and we have a fed meeting and a report on friday. Im already exhausted next week. Lets take the week. Starting with sunday night. I dont usually do this but Bill Whitaker from 60 minutes interviews jensen long, the ceo of nvidia. Normally we dont care about that but i bet it could have impact on the stock. So many people are invested in nvidia. I say maybe be prepared for a monday bump from 60 minutes. Mo