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Squawk on the Street

"7th Heaven" for Stocks, the Fed and Jackson Hole, AMD's $4.9B Deal and Battle Against Nvidia 8/19/24

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla and Jim Cramer explored the road ahead for stocks after the best week for equities since November 2023. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each entered Monday’s trading session with seven-day win streaks. The anchors also discussed what Fed policymakers are saying about rates ahead of Friday’s much-anticipated Jackson Hole summit speech by Fed Chair Powell. Also in focus: AMD makes a $4.9 billion acquisition as the company battles Nvidia on AI, General Motors job cuts, Estee Lauder issues weaker guidance and announces its CEO will retire in 2025, Fubo soars on its legal victory over the Disney-Fox-Warner Bros. Discovery streaming alliance, the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market Moving Insight and Analysis.

0:02.0

Join Jim Kramer, David Faber and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street. Good Monday morning, welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kinteneo with Jim Kramer at Post Night of the New York Stock Exchange. Faber has the morning off. Futures are steady after the best week of the year for Dow S&P NASDAQ. A big and consequential week ahead. Jackson Hole, the DNC, retail earnings, some benchmark provisions to payrolls.

0:25.8

A roadmap begins with the market seven-day win streak, though, looking to build on the best week of the year.

0:30.6

Fed's in focus ahead of Jackson Hole later in the week.

0:33.6

And of course, AMD today escalating its battle with NVIDIA by acquiring Server Maker ZT Systems

0:39.3

for nearly $5 billion in cash and stock.

0:43.3

Let's begin with the rally though as we do kick off a new trading week, Jim.

0:47.3

It wasn't just about equities, cross-rally ETFs last week, the JNK, the LQ, the LQD, the T-TLT.

0:55.6

We're more linked than we realized.

0:57.7

Obviously, we went down on Japan, and we went up on Japan.

1:01.3

Now, this is somewhat reminiscent, by the way, of 1987, where we would, if, like, Japan was up,

1:08.0

they'd come over and they flood us.

1:09.7

Sometimes they didn't care whether they used to buy these stocks.

1:12.7

They used to buy waste management and Browning Ferris. Don't ask me. I mean, in the old days, things were, when I said, my hedge fund, what you would say is, well, why is Browning Ferris up? And they would say, large buyer, large buyer, large buyer, large buyer. And eventually you go out for beer and it's like, it's Tokyo.

1:27.4

They had such, they liked the rails.

1:29.7

Yeah.

1:29.9

There was such craziness, but. Large buyer, large buyer. And eventually you go out for a beer, and it's Tokyo. They had such, they liked the rails.

1:29.6

Yeah.

1:29.9

There was such craziness, but we seem much more linked.

1:34.3

And it's interesting because the dollar keeps going down.

1:37.7

So it's good that we're linked for a company like a,

1:40.9

well, any of the package of which companies that sell overseas.

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