CNBC Investing Club: Cramer’s Morning Take on Chip Stocks 7/9/26
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🗓️ 9 July 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Jim Kramer here to share a short preview of my take on the market from today's |
| 0:06.5 | members-only CNBC Investing Club Morning Meeting. |
| 0:09.5 | Join the club for full access to the morning meeting every day at 1020 a.m. |
| 0:14.8 | Visit CNBC.com slash morning take to sign up today. |
| 0:19.9 | That's one word, morning take. Very complicated market today because |
| 0:25.7 | it's overlaid just the fact that oil is not up that much. But what people are talking about today |
| 0:31.1 | is this dichotomy once again, software down, hardware up, with the exception of Nvidia. |
| 0:38.3 | And I think it's very interesting to see that you could probably sum it up, as we were talking before him, |
| 0:44.3 | the companies that receive checks from the hyperscalers, these are the microns of the world, or sand disk, |
| 0:50.3 | are doing well, and the companies that write the checks, the hypers are doing badly. |
| 0:56.0 | Sure. Follow the money. Simple as that, right? And the money has been flowing into a lot of those |
| 1:02.9 | AI hardware stocks. Now they did have a lot of those names. You mentioned a few there. |
| 1:10.0 | Corning, a good example in the portfolio, |
| 1:12.8 | some really volatile action in the last few days, but we saw them start to rebound yesterday, |
| 1:17.7 | and that continues into today. But we're still dealing with a market that is unsure about what |
| 1:24.5 | might happen next in the war with Iran and the sea steel and how the ceasefire, |
| 1:31.8 | how strong that will be. As you can see, the S&P is lower now. A lot of that has to do with |
| 1:38.9 | the weakness in the hyperscalors, big mega-cap weights. And look, when you see Amazon down, |
| 1:42.8 | you see Alpha but down, you get a little nervous Microsoft down, perhaps a little bit because the fact that Starbucks, one of our holdings is thinking about trying to figure out how to get rid of Microsoft. |
| 1:51.3 | I'll be rid of IBM yesterday. |
| 1:54.6 | Not right price, but I decided that I was telling Jeff, we've got to just be in a couple, we've got to be in fewer semis because they're too volatile. |
| 2:02.6 | I wanted to consolidate around Intel. Intel is my favorite stock in the portfolio, but don't want to add more money to semis. |
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