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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: Alphabet 7/25/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks are considering trimming Alphabet depending on how the stock reacts to its earnings results posting after the market close today. 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

I'm Jim Kramer and you're about to hear a sample taken directly from today's

0:06.5

CBC Investing Club morning meeting.

0:09.0

I've got to tell you something.

0:11.0

Once again, we've got a very mixed picture and the mixed picture comes from actual one-off

0:16.3

things like a Raytheon not doing that well, RTX.

0:20.7

But I want to speak a little more about what's going to happen this evening.

0:23.6

Because I think we can look at Dow and how it did and Verizon did.

0:25.6

But I had a very consequential interview last night with Jonathan Canner.

0:29.6

He is the Assistant Attorney General for antitrust.

0:33.6

Very different, by the way, from the FTC.

0:35.6

He's offered a very cerebral analysis of what a monopolist is.

0:38.3

He would not speak specifically about Alphabet, but I can tell you that if Alphabet has a good quarter and we do have position in Alphabet,

0:45.3

the next thing you will hear is an antitrust case that I think is very potent and will make them choose either the buy side or the sell side.

0:53.3

I'm quite aware of this because when I helped run the street.com,

0:56.0

suddenly out of nowhere Google became both sides of the ad market,

0:59.0

and we began to lose a huge amount of money.

1:02.0

That's what he's focused on, so let's understand.

1:04.0

And there should be a video on CNBC.com that was not on their money,

1:08.0

which explains that I am genuinely concerned about our alphabet position because of antitrust.

1:13.6

Yeah, it's in the analysis tab on the Investing Club site if you want a quick way to find it.

1:17.6

But I thought his comments were very interesting, right? Traditionally, antitrust you think of a, is an acquisition vertical versus horizontal.

1:24.6

He's saying everything is two-sided. There are two-sided

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