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Squawk on the Street

April Job Openings Rise & Chicago PMI Misses 5/31/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks discuss how new U.S. manufacturing and employment data are telling two different stories about the state of the economy. Become a CNBC Investing Club member to go behind the scenes with Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks as they talk candidly about the market’s biggest headlines. Signup here: cnbc.com/morningtake CNBC Investing Club Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's CNBC Investing Club morning meeting.

0:07.0

Jeff, what can I say? We have a boom and a recession at the same time. It does feel like that.

0:15.0

I could argue very easily that with PMI, we're obviously in recession, but then you came to me with Joltz, not in recession.

0:24.0

Yeah, Chicago PMI, very disappointing. That, of course, measures the economic health of the manufacturing

0:29.7

sector in Chicago, very weak, dropping to around 40. We were looking for 47. It's very well. It's very

0:36.2

concerning. It obviously also explains why we've been seeing such weakness in a lot of manufacturing industrial companies as well.

0:43.6

Which we own.

0:45.0

And, you know, there's no hiding it.

0:46.7

If it's industrial, it's getting killed.

0:48.9

It doesn't even matter where it is in the cycle.

0:50.7

And a lot of this also because a lot of these companies had lived off of oil.

0:55.0

Yeah. And at the same time, still some very hawkish Fed comments, people looking for one more,

1:00.7

yet another rate hike at the June meeting that's coming up. So, you know, some conflicting forces

1:08.5

out there. Well, and in conflicting, you sell, especially at the end of the month.

1:12.5

You lock in what you have.

1:14.0

Now, yesterday we did a very thorough analysis.

1:15.8

Thank you for you.

1:17.4

Standard importance, if we just did the equal weighted.

1:21.7

Markets down.

1:22.7

Right.

1:23.1

So if you're just looking at the market, the S&P 500 being held really together by a group of,

1:29.1

let's just call it 10 stocks, the mega cap tech stocks, AI-related stocks. Outside of that, a lot of weakness.

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