Cramer's First Hour -- August 22, 2024

Locator: 48487JOBS.

Unemployment claims: 

• for the week ending August 17, 2024
• forecast: 230,000 -- exactly in-line with 232,000
• market: all indices remain green
• S&P: up 10 point
  

Cramer's first hour: a mix of fact, factoids, opinions from various sources -- often not cited -- while listening to Cramer's first hour on CNBC.  

Cramer's first hour: all about retailers this morning -- how fast Costco, Walmart and Target are lowering prices. Afraid of being accused of price gouging? LOL. Apparently the DNC wants the price of oil cut in half. Okay. I'm not sure how "half-price oil" is going to help the renewal energy sector. Wow.

SNOW: plummets -- down 14% in pre-market trading. Wow. Guidance boost isn't enough to impress Wall Street. But 14%? Wow.

Palantir: ?.

Personal investing: the other day I suggested that Sophia might start looking at Rivian. I suggested to her, "no hurry." So, if not Rivian, what? 

Presidential politics: the fact that insulin is not free to all type 1 diabetics is a true travesty in this country. 

BRK: current holdings. For the archives. For the moment, I've lost interest. How much cash does he have? There's a huge difference between $279 billion and $189 billion.

Re-posting? I don't know. I can't remember if I previously posted this. Link here.

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• Reminder: I am inappropriately exuberant about the US economy and the US market, 
• I am also inappropriately exuberant about all things Apple.