Thursday, January 29, 2026

Cramer's First Hour -- First Ten Minutes -- WTI Surges Through $65 -- IBM -- Up 9% -- January 29, 2026

Locator: 49867CRAMER.

Know who I haven't seen lately (but I'm only on Cramer's first hour)? Mohamed El-Erian. 

OMG: MSFT is down 10%!!! 

WTI: up almost 4%; up $2.32; trading at $65.53. 

META: first ten minutes all about META and MSFT.
productivity increased by 30% by one group of engineers; another group of engineers, productivity increased by 80%

IBM: up 9%.

AI: Claude and Gemini both hurting Copilot (aka "clippy").  MSFT down 7% but much of that due to CAPEX spend projection. Meme: slowing cloud growth.

TSLA: could open up 1.5%.

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Intersection

AI prompt: the intersection of "the cloud," language models, large data centers, and agentics. 

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4-IR

Re-posting from a few days ago.  

Seriously, I asked Google Gemini this question, tongue-in-cheek. Google Gemini apparently thought I was serious.

The AI prompt, asked tongue-in cheek:  Are some investors still over-thinking the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

See response this link.  

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AI prompt: just prior to the dot.com bust in 2000 or thereabouts, approximately how many web-based app companies IPO'd? 


AI prompt: of the 500+ internet-related companies that went public during the dot.com bubble who were the top fifteen winners?


AI prompt: some say Monster Beverage (MNST) was the best-performing stock in the last 30 years. Is that still accurate? 

I cannot recall CNBC ever covering this company. Obviously CNBC has mentioned it on occasion but I've never caught it on CNBC