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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: Government Shutdown & Auto Strikes 9/27/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, Business, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Cramer gives his thoughts on how a possible government shutdown and ongoing auto worker strikes might affect the markets. 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

One of the things I don't ever like, Jeff, is buying when the futures are up.

0:14.5

You have to wait till they're down and given the fact that the oscillator is now at minus

0:19.0

five, we are probably going to get a chance if one thing,

0:21.6

any number, oil goes down, rates go down, you will see a short squeeze and cover.

0:28.6

But one of the things, I mean, by the way, the tenure, most short it's been in history, thank you,

0:33.6

Carly Garner.

0:34.6

So you can't bite initially, you have to have a retest, and that's what's

0:37.5

happened. Right. Yeah, we often say you can't trust that up open. Why? Well, a lot of people that bought the low yesterday could come in traders and just quickly sell the open for a quick little profit. Scalpers, as you like to call them. But we do have the 10-year, and then when we saw the 10-year yield start

0:54.5

to moving up, move up, that also we saw the reverse action in equities starting to pull back

0:59.9

from the morning's highs, you know, a lot going on, energy up a couple dollars, good for those stocks.

1:05.7

Jim, any thoughts around, Pioneer, Cotera, any thoughts around government shutdown? Is that weighing on things?

1:11.6

Okay, so the two things that I am now desperate to count on about what could drive economic activity down.

1:19.6

The government shutdown and an escalation of the auto strikes.

1:24.6

And President Biden was out there doing something that I actually

1:27.8

regarded the highways member two unions always been very pro-union but never

1:33.8

thought that the president would go and not try to settle the strike but actually

1:37.8

just go and go with the conceivably the 40% increase which would be

1:42.2

detrimental to our Ford we'd have to sell it so I look at the expansion of the strike and a government shutdown as a possible reason why this goes higher.

1:51.0

Because all this is about, all of this is about one thing, which is the tenure.

1:56.0

So you don't have, you take out a big chunk of economic activity then interest rates will

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