Traders work in the S&P options pit at the Cboe Global Markets exchange in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images So much for the September seasonal doldrums. Options traders are kicking off the historically worst month for stocks by piling on bullish bets on a handful…
Jim Cramer agrees with UBS: The rally in Johnson & Johnson shares to new highs still has room to run. In a note to clients Wednesday, analysts at UBS raised their price target on the healthcare giant to $320 per share from $280. Their bullish view is based on three factors: (1) Top-line growth inflecting from…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that August was a comeback month for stocks that had been battered by some of Wall Street’s most powerful bearish narratives. His comments came on the final trading day of August. Several of the S&P 500‘s biggest winners in August spent months under pressure from concerns ranging from artificial intelligence…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Aug. 31 1. Oil is up nearly 4% and Chevron , my crude barometer, is trading above $200. U.S. and Iran exchanged attacks for the first time since July. President Donald Trump is threatening to blow up an Iranian oil hub, growing frustrated by a slower-moving sanctions approach….
Trucks traverse the Ambassador Bridge, a main trade route linking Canada and the United States in Windsor, Ontario, Canada July 5, 2020. Carlos Osorio | Reuters As the U.S. and Canada stare down tens of billions of dollars in dueling tariff regimes as a result of President Trump’s new trade war against the nation’s second-biggest…
This week’s impressive earnings results showed that the AI buildout is not a zero-sum game: both hardware and software stocks can win. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S & P 500 gained 0.9% and 0.5%, respectively, while the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.5%, marking its first winning week in three. Much of…
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. The stock market is failing to hold onto its morning gains, as Wall Street digests Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s speech at the annual Jackson Hole…
After an explosive debut and equally impressive crash, SpaceX shares are now, well, hovering in midair. After debuting as the most volatile stock among its large-cap peers, Elon Musk‘s astronomic equity hasn’t moved in three weeks, with shares trading in a $10 range around the $140 level. Implied volatility, a rough measure of the costs…
“Vote Here” signage outside a polling location at Westchester Regional Library during a primary election in Miami, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Markets are starting to care about the 2026 midterm elections, which loom 10 weeks away and could rip full control of Congress from…
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 are slightly higher on Tuesday, with the S & P 500 on track to recover nearly all of Monday’s dip. The market is getting a…
