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General Electric just had its best month ever. Shares rose just over 34 percent in January — the largest monthly gain in the company’s 127-year history. January’s jump was in large part due to the company’s fourth-quarter revenue beat, boosted by strong performance from the aviation business. But January’s performance notwithstanding, it hasn’t exactly been

If you win money in a Super Bowl bet on Sunday, remember while you’re celebrating that Uncle Sam can be a bit of a party crasher. No matter where you wager — whether at a casino, through a pool or fantasy league, or at your neighbor’s annual bash — the IRS expects you come to

Many market commentators will try to explain why the stock market kicked off 2019 with the best January in decades, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer stressed on Friday that the move wasn’t tied to historical patterns or the calendar. “You know why stocks had such a good start this year? For the same reason they had

After Amazon dropped on its earnings report, Wall Street analysts mostly stuck by the internet juggernaut, tweaking estimates and lowering price targets slightly. Amazon shares dropped sharply during its earnings call and are down just around 4 percent in pre-market trading Friday to $1,644. Some analysts did warn choppy trading could be ahead ahead due

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made the right choice in leaving interest rates unchanged and preaching patience — and it shouldn’t be seen as him “caving” to Wall Street, says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “Don’t listen to the Fed watchers who claim that Powell caved to the stock market or the president,” Cramer said Wednesday after

Apple debuted earnings after the bell Tuesday with many analysts taking a “better than feared” approach and largely breathing a sigh of relief despite a revenue decline, lower profit and downbeat outlook. Analysts also mostly shrugged off that for the first time Apple was no longer including unit sales for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Apple

Chinese stocks, especially ones that are new to U.S. markets, may seem like appealing investments, but to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, most of them aren’t worth the risk. In 2018, 31 Chinese companies had initial public offerings on U.S. stock exchanges, up from 12 the year before. The 2018 deals raised about $8.5 billion in gross

Stocks may be on the brink of another correction. Despite 2019’s strong start, the Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan believes the market remains in a danger zone, because there’s evidence economic growth is still decelerating. “The elephant in the room remains the cyclical slowdown. And, as long as that slowdown is in play… the

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch believes it’s premature to call an end to the market correction. Although stocks on Friday closed out 5 straight weeks of gains, Stephen Suttmeier, the firm’s chief equity technical strategist, is telling investors that stocks are still in the throes of a cyclical bear market. According to Suttmeier, the S&P 500

Investors looking to seize on the rise of over-the-top streaming services and increased cord-cutting should look no further than a few key stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday on “Mad Money.” While the devices and ecosystems that enable streaming — think Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Comcast, as well as smaller players like Roku — are

CNBC’s Jim Cramer implored investors on Thursday not to let day-to-day market volatility frighten them out of buying shares of great long-term performers like pharmaceutical giant Merck. “Merck is exactly the kind of company that investors circle the wagons around” during difficult macroeconomic events like long-lived government shutdowns, Cramer said on “Mad Money” amid a

The current macroeconomic environment makes it difficult for CNBC’s Jim Cramer to recommend even a best-of-breed stock like Emerson Electric, he said Wednesday after a solid trading session in the stock market. An old-line manufacturer involved in the industrial automation, fluid handling, climate control and oil and gas spaces, Emerson has been at the center

[This stream is slated to start at 2:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Markets have seen a return of volatility of late, with global indexes suffering big losses in December 2018. Equities around the world have had a slight rebound since — the

Even with the U.S.-China trade war still raging, Chinese stocks are on fire. Increasing trade tensions between the U.S. and China through the back-half of 2018 took a sledgehammer to Chinese shares. Baidu ended the year with a 32 percent loss, while Tencent was down 23 percent, and Alibaba dropped 21 percent. However, the FXI

In his last book, “Stay the Course,” Jack Bogle left investors and professionals a warning about a coming battle in investment management. He had been watching closely over the past few years as a growing number of academics raised questions about the size of big passive fund managers, such as Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street

The next wave of earnings reports is so busy and pivotal that it could very well drive investors “crazy,” says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. But the longtime investing guru isn’t just worried about the many earnings reports coming down the pike. “I can’t recall a time when the forecast will be more important, certainly much more

The stock market’s positive response to a report that U.S. officials were considering lifting tariffs on China to get a trade deal was telling, but it wasn’t necessarily good, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “Stocks that had been crushed on Chinese worries roared higher like this arrangement was already a done deal” despite the report

Jack Bogle was sure of his pioneering market invention, but he always had misgivings about what it had become. Bogle, who died Wednesday the age of 89, devised the index fund in 1975 as a way for retail investors to be able to compete with the pros. Rather than bunch a group of stocks into

Macy’s weaker-than-expected holiday sales results seems to be more of a Macy’s problem than a retail industry problem, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. Shares of the old-line department store operator saw their worst trading day ever after Macy’s reported lower holiday sales for the end of 2018 and slashed its earnings outlook for the year.

The parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger has “changed the narrative” for the retail sector, and its stock still has more upside, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday after the major averages fell slightly on earnings worries. “PVH had a very rough time in the second half of 2018. Even though shares have rallied

Ford Motor is gearing up to launch new electric cars as soon as next year, CEO Jim Hackett told CNBC on Sunday. Ford has previously announced its plans to invest $11 billion in electric vehicles by 2022 and produce 40 hybrid and fully electric cars, in a plan to revive its slowing business. However, the

Call it the Apple turnover. Shares of the tech giant are down over 30 percent from its October high, shedding more than $400 billion in market capitalization from peak to trough. Apple‘s collapse comes amid growing fears over iPhone demand and trade tensions. Last week, the stock fell nearly 10 percent in a day, setting

Part of the reason stocks have returned to normalcy after the market’s end-of-2018 carnage is a revival of the data center, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. After spending a week in San Francisco interviewing executives in the technology and health-care industries, Cramer, host of “Mad Money,” left the so-called Golden City with some key takeaways.

Wall Street’s recent distaste with the retail sector is evidence that the economic layout is changing for public retail companies, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday as the group slid on holiday sales disappointments. “Welcome to the new economy,” Cramer said. “Going forward, you need to understand that not all retailers are created equal anymore, and

Investors shouldn’t wait for “ironclad proof” that business is improving at Micron, Nvidia and Lam Research before they buy the semiconductor companies’ stocks, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday as stocks inched higher. “If you wait for ironclad proof that a troubled business has turned itself around, you’ll miss most of the upside from that turn,”

In its last fiscal year, Apple generated $100 billion in revenue that was not tied to what has long been considered its flagship product, the iPhone, CEO Tim Cook told CNBC on Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview with Jim Cramer. “In this last quarter, if you take everything outside of iPhone, it grew at 19

Patient investors might want to consider buying shares of Micron Technology as things slowly turn positive for the chipmaker, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday as Micron’s stock pulled the semicondcutor cohort higher. Shares of Micron mounted a long-awaited recovery in Monday’s turbulent trading session after BMO Capital Markets analysts upgraded the stock to “buy” from

Blackstone is telling investors not to give up on 2019, and perhaps they’re starting to listen. Its investment strategist, Joseph Zidle, is optimistic stocks will rebound this year, blaming the market’s wild swings on misguided, negative sentiment. “This is a buying opportunity. We see the market, the S&P 500, up 15 percent in 2019,” he

Tony Robbins, renown life and business strategist who has coached more than 50 million people, has dedicated himself to spreading personal finance literacy across America. And his mantra is timely: Don’t sit on the sidelines in fear or make rash decisions because of stock market volatility. As he points out: “The single biggest threat to

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just gave the stock market and the U.S. economy exactly what they needed to continue the steady growth they’ve seen in the last several years, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. In a group interview with former Fed leaders Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, Powell said Friday that he would be