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Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer

Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 5/8/26

Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer

CNBC

Investing, Business, News

4.34K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Listen to Jim Cramer’s personal guide through the confusing jungle of Wall Street investing, navigating through opportunities and pitfalls with one goal in mind - to help you make money. Mad Money Disclaimer

Transcript

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0:00.0

My mission is simple, to make you money.

0:04.7

I'm here to level the playing field for all investors.

0:08.1

There's always a home market somewhere, and I promise to help you find it.

0:12.2

Mad Money starts now.

0:17.1

Hey, I'm Kramer.

0:18.3

Welcome to Mad Money.

0:19.7

Welcome to Kramer.

0:38.7

Other people, my friends, I'm just trying to make you some money. My job is not just to educate, do some teaching, but also to entertain. So call me, $1,807.4.3 C.V.C. TV and Jim Kramer. This market keeps going up and up on the same old stuff. News about semiconductors, even old news about semiconductors, even pure conjecture about semiconductors. Anything remotely positive moves that group higher.

0:46.8

Anything remotely negative about any other group is considered catastrophic. You know what?

0:52.7

They tend to cancel each other out when you look at the average.

0:54.7

That's why the Dowell Jones is up just 12 points. But the SMB gained 0.84% and the NASDAQ,

1:00.5

where there's little to be canceled out, surge 1.71%. It's where the semis hang out,

1:08.2

but the same storage and memory stocks keep flying. It's a micron up up 15.5% today. Today, Sandus up 16.6%. Oh, on one day, regardless of the on again, off again, off again, off again, off again, off again, possibility of guessing about a rate cut. Okay, you want me to guess? Let's just guess. Ask me how much money I'm going to make for you right now.

1:28.8

Maybe. Maybe it'll be a Fed. Maybe it'll be a Fed. The Fed is as much a distraction as an abstract when it comes to the business of making money.

1:36.6

It's exciting. It is. It really is. And I think you should own one or two or even three of the companies linked in the data center, semi-complex that I talk about all the time, even if they can't be your entire portfolio,

1:48.1

and I don't want them to be. We're coming around to the idea that these data center stocks

1:52.3

are what's known as foundational and must be owned. Ideally, I tell you to buy them on down days,

1:57.0

and there are down days occasionally, but if you don't have the patience to wait, it's better to pay up than to not own them at all. Still, though, we need to take everything into

2:07.4

account, right, which means it's not man's, the show's not man semiconductors, which means we need

2:11.6

a game plan for next week, and I happen to have one right on this wall. Look at this. The wing

2:17.0

starts with an energy supplier that's no stranger to tech, it's Constellation Energy. That's the nuclear heavy power generator that the big tech companies that want to use, they want to use it to power the data centers because nuclear is carbon-free. The earnings have been fine. It's the zeitgeist that matters there. Tuesday. All right, starts with the Consumer Price Index, CPI And if you're banking on a rate cut this year, you probably hope this inflation gauge comes in week. We got a strong set of employment numbers today, albeit with weaker wage growth, Nirvana for the Fed, by the way. Now we just need a softer CPI, and it'll be much easier for the incoming Fed chiefs to convince the rest of the Oaken Market Committee members to do some

2:51.7

cutting. Searching for an unharled and semiconductor play. I got one here. It's called Cunity. Yes,

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