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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: Fed Watch 5/2/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, News, Business

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks preview Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision and several economic data releases this week. 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

We've got the four horsemen of the potential apocalypse here and I'm concerned about them.

0:14.5

We have the Fed meeting tomorrow, which is worrisome.

0:18.4

We've got Apple, which is always on everybody's radar screen because it's so big.

0:23.6

We have the unemployment number, which may show something involving accelerating wages that the Fed wouldn't want it,

0:29.6

and then we have the debt ceiling.

0:31.6

And I think that this gauntlet is too hard to get through without some real bumps.

0:35.6

Yeah, I mean, at least on the Fed, I think it's widely expected.

0:38.5

They'll get a quarter point raised. But a lot of questions come. What happens after that? Do they pause? Some people think that they may start cutting later this year, which it might be a little bit too early for. I'm going to talk about that tonight. Right, given where inflation is. I mean, jobs, Friday, I mean, it's always the interpretation is good news, good news, or is bad news, good news now.

1:01.0

So a lot to see there, especially with the unemployment rate.

1:04.7

And then Apple, as you called out.

1:06.0

Right.

1:06.2

What I really want people to understand is that the debt ceiling lifted.

1:13.6

There are a lot of things that, you know, Yellen just moved it up. Congress is out of session for two weeks.

1:15.6

So we're saying June 1st now.

1:16.6

There's just too much.

1:17.6

There's not enough time.

1:18.6

Too much has to be done.

1:20.6

So you get, maybe you get an extension, but people have to remember what happened in 2011.

1:24.6

Yet there was a big decline that's called it close to 20% in the S&P.

1:30.3

Right.

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