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My mission is simple, to make you money. I'm here to level the playing field for all investors. There's always a bull market somewhere and I promise to help you find it. Man, money starts. Hey, I'm Kramer. Welcome to Mad Money. Welcome to Kramerica. Other people make friends just trying to make a little money. My job, not to entertain, but to educate. Teach context. Call me 1-800-743- CNBC tweet with Jim Cramer. Rumor, innuendo, intrigue. These are the stuff of great novels of fabulous miniseries, riveting plays. And now they're the stuff of the stock market. Yes, this tape has it all, doesn't it? The White House throws so much shoe at all hours of the day. We have press conferences, true social posts, offhanded statements that move trillions of dollars in and out of bonds, of currencies, of gold, of crypto. We've got contradictions galore, Daniel. Malls all over the place. Except this isn't an eight part blockbuster. It's our money. You know, it's gotten to the point where anytime you see the market go down or up big, a tweet behind it. It's a tweet that can unleash trillions or shed the same amount as it did all day to day with the drama ultimately sending the Dow up 619 points while the SB gain 1.8%. Here we go again with the Nasdaq rally, 2.06. Nice comeback from yesterday's absolute ugliness. House of pain is the market trying to find a liberation day. Bottom that's what I was thinking about today, you know, kind of moment when stocks stop cascading because we know finally all the bad is in. Not sure. I'm just not sure I'm going to think about it all weekend, you know, and I know this Weekend we're going to get some market moving statements because if you ever notice the weekends don't provide any more relax, relaxation anymore because the President got advisors, he's got people out, he wants to tweet, he's got meetings, no relaxation time, no downtime. Maybe this weekend. I don't know. Monday's trading. What we say just say that it looks like that it's earnings season, so it's going to be even harder than usual. Oh, my. All right, well, let's start with Goldman Sachs, right? That's what it's. It's the first bank stock. It's the first stock that reports this week. And I've got to tell you, says report on Monday. It's interesting. J.P. morgan stole the show today with a monster good quarter. Wells Fargo was too run in the mill. That one hurt me for my travel stuff. I don't know, you should look at your bullets. Really important that we put out Morgan Stanley. Better. Goldman's by far the most controversial. Why? Because as an investment bank, its business can be pretty episodic. I think Goldman can do it because Goldman's a change firm. One that's no longer gripped by the picaresque tradition of Wall Street. I bet CEO James David Solomon can deliver on the top and bottom lines. And the top because of trading that used to be their forte. And the bottom because of rationalization of the bank's table of employment. Basically, they can beat the numbers by firing a bunch of people, which they've been doing. It's smart to do that. We're in a different market. Tuesday we hear from two more big banks. And by this time, I got to tell you, when we see the numbers from bank of America, Citigroup, our eyes are going to glaze over. They shouldn't, but they will. I think the bank of America will be the usual fine self. And Citigroup's gotten so loved that it's probably going to roar no matter what is said. Such as the admiration for CEO Jane Frazier, and she certainly earned it. The drug stocks have been having a huge conundrum, right? I mean, they have danced to the tune of a new fda, which falls under the purview of a different kind of guy, RFK Jr. At health and Human Services. He's not exactly pharma friendly. Meanwhile, they're supposed to be manufacturing all their drugs here or else they'll be hit with big tariffs. Vaccines are no nos. At least allegedly monkeys are not to be used for testing anymore. It should be used. I should be used. And in The Case of Johnson and Johnson reports. Tuesday morning we get an update on the firm's legal strategy against those suing the company for cancer that was allegedly caused by by J and J's baby tout powder. This stock has been stuck in a range forever. It's a wide one, but at least it's not in a perpetual downturn like some of the other pharma companies. I think it could reverse course and break out as long as we get some big news on any new drug. And by the way, it has a lot of great drug franchises, more than almost every other one. After the close, we get to hear JB Hunt talk about how the freight rates of recession continues. Now these guys are their own worst enemies. I'm on their call the time and they are so downbeat it's incredible. It's like they're down on themselves. I want to send them, I don't know, the Michelin man down there. Give them a couple of laughs. They need some help. Please be more upbeat. Wednesday morning. Robert Ford from Abbott Labs will tell his usual terrific story about the company's strong franchises while having to mention the special baby formula lawsuits that have hurt the stock's valuation for such a long time. It was 14 points higher not that long ago during that ridiculous rotation where I told you I had to sell some. These stocks are now all the way back down. That rotation was horrendous and I still like to find out what firms did that because they should be, they should be kept away from anybody's money. SML holdings, that's a Dutch company. It's a crucial semiconductor capital equipment business. It also reports and I fear that it will miss as it did last time, causing all the high end semiconductor stocks to roll over. By the way, AMAT was up big today. That would be go down big if ASML misses talk about opaque. It's I don't even know if these guys know how they're doing right now. It is such a complicated company. We've also got retail, retail sales. Now I keep hearing that sales were weak and that this month's been strong because of demand being pulled through ahead of the tariffs. But I don't know. I looked at Wal Mart, Amazon and Costco and their businesses were all really strong in the month of March. I bet the retail number is strong too. In the long term, interest rates might even go higher than they did this week. This week I should have pointed out that interest rates went up so much this week that it really disturbed a lot of the trading. A few minutes after 2am on Thursday, we get to listen to Taiwan Semiconductor talk. Now lots of people think that this call has become a proxy for Nvidia, which is this is in video, its foundry. If it's strong, Nvidia flies. Now that link, which is now that linkage is now anti diluvian and it hasn't held up under close scrutiny in the last couple of quarters. Well, I'm going to listen but this time only for the color on the entire semiconductor space, not as a one for one for Nvidia. How about a gimme? I think this company is the only gimme that I see this week. This is close to one as you're going to find. Not too high a price, earnings multiple, not yet overly love. Purely domestic business has pricing power. This is it. It's a universal buy. We recently featured American Express as part of its 150th birthday celebration. Now this is a company that trades on new card signups, especially from younger people. And I think that it'll deliver on that strength when it reports on Thursday morning. Be careful though, because American Express stock trades badly, the morning reports badly, meaning it doesn't reflect the fundamentals one way or the other. See my drop eight points or go up eight points and then reverse. I just want you to listen the call before you pull the trigger. Trust me on this, I know I'm right. Okay. We also hear from Blackstone, that's the private equity firm, on Thursday morning. Now normally we wouldn't be all that focused on this one, but Blackstone has this gigantic data center business within the company and we need to keep up on these because they are all sort. There are all sorts of doubters now about the data center. That had been a theme that I thought could last for some time and right now people feel that theme is over. Now Blackstone will tell us otherwise. It could help the bleaker stock of Nvidia and a bunch of the companies like Vertif if Blackstone is possible in data centers. Finally after the close, Netflix reports. Now we're lucky to have Friday off for Good Friday because studying the hydra headed Netflix call requires a huge amount of time. I always leave a lot of time for it. See, each time it reports, management talks about the rollout of its ad supported subscription tiers. And the darn ad business is incredibly lucrative. It is what still draws me to the stock. There was a time when the Netflix quarterly conference call was the most exciting thing that happens to us in this business. But the bottom line, that was before the election. These Days. Nothing coming out of Netflix can possibly keep up with the endless drama from the White House. Chris in Pennsylvania. Chris, hello. Yeah, you're up, Krish.
