In a recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer mentioned that selling due to pre-market futures activity is not a wise move. He added that President Trump’s approach of making big announcements on the weekends also leads to traders positioning themselves:
“But look, we’re looking at the futures, again, if people want to go sell everything because they see the futures, that historically is not been a really great way to go. It is Friday, we have a lot of news that always comes out on the weekends these days. Again, if you do not like Trump, you don’t want to own stocks. If you like Trump, you’re probably thinking this is a pretty interesting level.”
Cramer added that the Trump administration’s announcements and decisions are geared towards the President’s objectives and goals and not the stock market. “And I think that it’s not like you’re going to hear from the administration you know what we look at the stock market we’re going to go easy. That’s not their thing,” he said. “Their thing is to say we’ll even sacrifice the stock market to get what we want and then we’ll look to see what happens. But I have no illusions,” he added.
Commenting on the recent price action of the stock of the world’s leading AI GPU designer, he outlined that the stock “is pulling down all the tech. And that’s why I think if you didn’t have such bad numbers in housing, and bad numbers . . the tape is very negative. But I can make the case that right now if you look away from tech there’s some real bargains here. It’s just we keep losing bull markets.”
The CNBC host also commented on how it’s difficult to publicly make predictions about the stock market and whether there’s time to buy stocks:
“I said last night in my close, that if you came on our air, and you said to buy ahead of April 2nd, and the market gets killed on April 3rd, you will look like the biggest idiot in the world. Because there’s such a thing called YouTube and they can run you endlessly. So you can’t stick your neck out. Do I ever want to own some stocks? But I’m not sticking my neck out, because I don’t want to be constantly bombarded by YouTube which just says, you know what, this is a good opportunity because it makes you too much sound like buying stocks ahead of the Great Depression. There’s plenty of time to buy stocks. There’s plenty of time. But I do think that we’re in a void ahead of April 2nd. Then we have to look at it. Does that mean it can just go down endlessly? I don’t know Sarah, it’s conceivable.”
As for the tariffs, one reason why markets are roiled is because of uncertainty. According to Cramer:
“If the government is going to put through tariffs, no one will know what to do. And I think that’s part of the chaos. It’s not like they figured out how to be able to make it so that if you’re coming in from Mexico, you know how to pay. If you’re flying in from China, you know how to pay. I think the government right now should be working on schedules. And figuring out who is going collect it.”
Finally, he urged viewers to not give up. Commenting on markets being down for the week and equal weight delivering higher returns than market weight, he shared:
“If you have a broadening out, that gets away from Mag 7, you’re going to have a healthier economy. People aren’t used to that. People are so used to stocks going higher. . . .But the fact is the vast majority of stocks are doing okay, it’s just that you don’t see it because we’re stuck in an index that has heavy tech tells me, you know look, don’t give up, don’t give up. Giving up may, you may, you may get hit for another five to seven percent as we get to April 2nd.”
Our Methodology
To make our list of the stocks that Jim Cramer talked about, we listed down the stocks he mentioned during CNBC’s Squawk on the Street aired on March 21st.
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Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) is another stock that Cramer frequently mentions on his morning show. The memory chip maker is one of Cramer’s top chip stocks due to its exposure to high-bandwidth memory used in AI data centers. Cramer has shared that even if the Trump administration rolls back grants under the CHIPS and Science Act, Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) could do well. Here are his latest comments:
“Micron was up eight points last night, people listened to the call, I told Sanjay, I told Sanjay Mehrotra that it was a terrific call. Why? Because high bandwidth memory, which is data center, was good. People have turned and just said you know what something happened between five thirty last night and now that’s negative. All I did was go to sleep.”
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