CNBC Investing Club: Cramer’s Morning Take on WTI Crude 3/16/26
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🗓️ 16 March 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 members-only |
| 0:07.1 | CNBC Investing Club Morning Meeting. Join the club for full access to the morning meeting every day |
| 0:12.7 | at 1020 a.m. Visit CnBC.com slash morning take to sign up today. That's one word morning take. |
| 0:23.2 | Jim, we have oil finally down, trading below 84, excuse me, WTI, and it's leading to a nice rebound in the markets. |
| 0:35.7 | What we're seeing today, Jeff, is pretty clear. If oil just goes up and up and up, |
| 0:41.7 | if we were at 115, we'd be down a lot today. If it was at 120, we'd have another down 2% day. |
| 0:47.5 | The fact that oil can go down is making people feel like, you know, we better start doing some |
| 0:53.1 | buying. There's a little sense that maybe this is like a liberation day plus one. |
| 0:57.7 | I don't know whether that's the case. |
| 0:59.2 | I do know that if we're letting Iranian oil through, it looks like that we're trying to set |
| 1:02.8 | a precedent that we won't bomb your oil facilities, stop bombing ours. |
| 1:08.6 | And that causes oil to go down because what it says is maybe there's going to be |
| 1:11.8 | a couple million barrels a day coming through the street. You know what? That is going to make |
| 1:15.8 | people feel like, well, you know, things are a little better. And I tried very hard this weekend, |
| 1:20.9 | Jeff, to be able to say that private credit woes are overblown. So if you have oiled down, |
| 1:26.1 | you have private credit woes, maybe overblown, |
| 1:28.3 | you have to buy. Yes, I think you pointed out it's more of a liquidity issue in private credit |
| 1:35.4 | than a credit issue. But yes, back to oil. I thought Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's comments |
| 1:43.0 | on CNBC, I think it added some calmness |
| 1:46.2 | to the oil markets. |
| 1:47.6 | And he mentioned tankers getting through the president's calling on other countries to form |
| 1:53.6 | a coalition to get tankers through the straits. |
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