Cramer's Morning Take: Johnson & Johnson 4/1/25
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's |
| 0:05.0 | CNBC Investing Club morning meeting. |
| 0:07.0 | So I think that we got the worst case scenario was in the Washington Post this morning. |
| 0:12.0 | We talked about just punitive tariffs all over the globe. |
| 0:15.0 | Once that's out there, then if we get that, I think there's a possibility that we could be through the worst. |
| 0:20.0 | And I think that's very important. |
| 0:21.0 | So we're talking about the Post. They reported that the administration's considering a roughly 20% tariff on goods. |
| 0:30.2 | So different from the reciprocal tariffs, right? This is a blanketed 20%. And that's very punitive. And that would be the beginning of, we think of just great, they tariff us, they go after our tech companies, we go back. So I guess the idea that maybe reciprocal wouldn't be as bad as feared, obviously market pricing in fear. Maybe was pension buying you did have a |
| 0:55.8 | nice intraday reversal big pension buy what we saw at the end of February as |
| 0:59.2 | well and but we're giving that back today well I mean you know what I would say is |
| 1:04.4 | it is early I had said on squawk I expect to retest now the Dow is much stronger than you think because you have, |
| 1:12.4 | remember, you have J&J in there, and I want to make a case yesterday we talked about J&J |
| 1:16.5 | that you could buy J&J here because it's a $7 billion exposure that flows back in. I think |
| 1:22.3 | it's a very interesting situation. The reason is interesting situation is if this is, I mean, I'm not going to come to you hard on this, but this stock is up nine. |
| 1:31.3 | It does have more than 20 drugs that have a billion dollars. |
| 1:35.3 | I think I can make a case that we should be buying J&J. |
| 1:37.3 | So the news impacting J&J was a Texas bankruptcy court denied their settlement plan for TALc. Right. So it's back to, |
| 1:46.2 | litigation risk. Even though they had 88% of the plaintiffs agreed and wanted the $10 billion |
| 1:52.4 | that would have been coming their way, I do think, remember, they're reserved for seven. |
| 1:57.5 | I think this is a really interesting opportunity, and I think people should take it. |
| 2:01.5 | All right. Believe me, I would, but, you know, we, we have on a lot of stocks. We're not |
| 2:04.9 | really interested in buying a new one. Well, yeah, I mean, look, the market is on edge waiting |
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