I sure didn’t want what happened to occur, at least not during my vacation, of all things. But it did, and we have to deal with the fallout head-on because it came as such a surprise to many. Imagine for a moment there were five geese — Amazon , Alphabet , Microsoft , Meta Platforms ,…
Wall Street exhaled on Friday after SpaceX nailed its record-breaking debut. The success wiped away a week of anxiety over whether the market had the appetite to digest the biggest initial public offering in history. SpaceX closed up 19% at nearly $161 per share for a market value of more than $2.1 trillion, making it…
A new deal from Eaton gives investors exactly what they want: a leaner company with greater exposure to the AI data center boom. Auto parts manufacturer Dana has agreed to combine with Eaton’s lagging Mobility business in a deal that values the unit at $5.1 billion, the companies said on Thursday. The move not only…
Coal could come back. That was my insight, or more, my instinct, after interviewing Kenny Young, the CEO and seven-year veteran of Babcock & Wilcox , the 160-year-old boiler manufacturer turned engineering and construction company. Young wanted to talk about the surging demand for power spurred by the data center boom. So did I. B…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks pulled back on Friday, but the S & P 500 is still on pace for its seventh straight positive week. The market moved lower in…
Late. Late. Late. That’s how I felt when I saw the Roundhill Memory ETF — symbol DRAM, of course — take in more than $5 billion in a month. Super late when I saw it took in $1.1 billion on Thursday alone, all to play what the press is hailing as the memory supercycle. But…
I am growing tired of the endless bubble talk about all of the data center spending. It’s obvious from this quarter that the bubble talk has been proven wrong; try getting someone to say that, though. So, who do I think I am to go there? Just an observer. One who believes that this was…
The S & P 500 kept its record run alive last week, boosted by a strong batch of earnings reports that showed the artificial intelligence spending boom isn’t slowing down. Even more earnings are on the way in the coming week. Plus, the jobs market will be under the microscope. The market’s blistering rally in…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said the market just powered through the toughest week of earnings “with flying colors,” but warned that next week could be even more treacherous. “All the big techs did well … Everything connected with the data center went bonkers,” the “Mad Money” host said. However, he cautioned against complacency. “That doesn’t mean…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. It’s a new month, but it’s more of the same for the S & P 500. The broad index is on its way to another record…
