Challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years this is a time that makes us wonder how strong institutions will be how we rise to a challenge like this but because at the time of testing but also think of americas strength what we are good i had as a country and to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Thats a complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and quality of the individual on one hand and some strength of community on the other our society in the past halfcentury has emphasized the individual, liberty, freedom, dy that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to the coin that can look like fragmentation and isolation and alienation and loneliness and we have seen all that and era marked by a crises to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of our strength and ways to drive us to the history and politics is not always good at doin
So call me at 1800cnbc how did we get up here with the s p 500 hitting alltime highs, dow hitting its high for the year after gaining 249 points today. S p climbed 4. 9 nasdaq rose. 80 and more importantly, does this market have what it takes to keep powering higher regardless of what happens with the president , with trade, with the Federal Reserve . Just looking at the fundamentals of individual companies which is what we do best in cramerica, i think its worth wondering what might happen if we stay on evq we need it know if the market has gotten too expensive, or if its got more room to run. Especially with oil having a monster runoff just today because of tension with iran so lets zoom in on the top ten performances in the Dow Jones Industrial average, 2019 see, this will help us put in context so we understand how we got up here and whether it is dangerous, whether its safe, whether it makes sense number one is microsoft. Its a trillion dollar household name with a stock thats up
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Security advisor susan rice talking on the home to receive an update on the attack. He did attend a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cuban National team before heading to argentina. Now its time for mad money. My mission is simple to make you money. Im here to level the Playing Field for all investors. Theres always a bull market somewhere. I promise to help you find it. Mad money starts now. Hey, im cramer. Welcome to mad money. Welcome to cramerica. Other people want to make friends. Im trying to make you a little money. My job isnt just to teach but also to coach you. Call me at 1800743cnbc. Or tweet me jim cramer. The underlying bid, that is a term that means buyers are lurking underneath current prices. When those prices drop, people start buying stocks. Thats how you can have a day like this one, one that started with a horrendous terrorist attack in brussels, which justifiably brought down almost everything at the opening, then a rally in the afternoon. Dow only fall
Prices. When those prices drop, people start buying stocks. Thats how you can have a day like this one, one that started with a horrendous terrorist attack in brussels, which justifiably brought down almost everything at the opening, then a rally in the afternoon. Dow only falling 41 points, s p declining 0. 9 , nasdaq advancing 0. 27 . By the end of the day, the stocks getting hit were the ones directly related to travel and leisure. Those companies will suffer because of a loss in business as the world is on edge. Makes people want to stay at home. The rest of the market was able to mount somewhat of a comeback because of this thing im calling this underlying bid. It seems to be there since the bottom of this market on february 11, when murky issues involving energy losses, weak european banks and insurging populist politics to the the bears. How is it possible with these terrorist attacks didnt cause a more lasting decline in the stock market, at least for this day . First, these at