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Jim Cramer on Monday brushed off Morgan Stanley’s downgrade of CrowdStrike , viewing the cybersecurity giant’s recent dip as a potential buying opportunity. “Morgan Stanley may downgrade this but I want to get in on the downgrade and get in on the discount,” Cramer said Monday during the Investing Club’s Morning Meeting. Shares of CrowdStrike dipped nearly 2% in the premarket Monday but stabilized by midday, trading at roughly $477 apiece. Morgan Stanley took CrowdStrike to equal weight from buy-equivalent overweight, while slightly increasing its price target on the stock to $495 from $490. After a 50% stock rise since…

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White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett speculated Monday that new tariff policies are not yet sparking widespread price inflation because President Donald Trump has convinced more people to buy American.”There’s, I think, a lot of patriotism in the data,” Hassett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when he was asked to explain why Trump’s protectionist policies have not stoked higher prices, despite warnings by many economists.The National Economic Council director pointed to a recent White House report, which found prices of imported goods fell between December and May.”My theory, as an economist, of why that is, is that Americans, because of…

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Private jets parked at the Friedman Memorial Airport during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.The new federal spending bill is expected to boost sales of private jets, as owners take advantage of faster write-offs of the purchase price.Jet brokers and advisors said they’ve seen a burst of activity from clients who were holding off on…

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A sign is posted in front of a home for sale in San Rafael, California, on Aug. 7, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesOver-inflated home prices, high mortgage rates, rising supply and falling demand are all joining forces to cool the nation’s housing market.Annual home price growth in June was just 1.3%, down from 1.6% growth in May and the slowest rate in two years, according to ICE, a mortgage technology firm.Nearly one third of the largest 100 markets are now showing annual price declines of at least a full percentage point from recent highs, and the trend suggests more markets…

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first supercluster online next year.A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that’s designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads. “Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.…

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