Investors should hold off from buying stocks Friday, even as U.S. stocks opened lower after an American airstrike killed Iran’s top military general, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. “I would not be excited about jumping in here because … we’re not giving up enough,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” The “Mad Money” host said caution is extremely important
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday took a look at last year’s run in the S&P 500 to lay out his thoughts on how the top performers would play out over the coming year in trading. The S&P 500, which tracks 500 large-cap public stocks, posted a gain of 28.9% in 2019, its largest advance since
A worker walks at the Nahr Bin Umar field, Iraq. Essam Al-Sudani | Reuters The latest flare-up in U.S.-Iran relations could bring about the end of the longest bull market ever if crude prices keep surging, slowing an already fragile global economy even further. But investors cautioned we’re not yet at that point. The last
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer advises that investors refrain from panicking about how U.S.-Iran tensions may impact the market and to look for potential buying opportunities in the coming days. The “Mad Money” host takes a look back at the top components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 to project what’s to come in