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Investing Club: What Jim Cramer Is Watching Monday — Rate Hikes, Old Tech and Take-Two

Scott Mlyn | CNBC

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What I am looking at, January 10, 2022:

  • Rate hike game.., who can be the over?... it looks like Goldman Sachs might be...with prediction for four 2022 hikes today... this is a game that makes it difficult to figure out what to pay for stocks, but suffice it to say every time we get a higher count, we are going to get more bank stock increases.
  • How bad is whatever is ailing PayPal (PYPL)?... this time they float that they might be doing a stablecoin: the story says they are thinking about planning one.... with crypto going down and nothing else new you get a stock that will keep going lower...
  • Are the casinos the worst group in the world?... today Bank of America downgrades Las Vegas Sands (LVS) from hold to sell...
  • United Rentals (URI)... Deutsche Bank recommends short term buy...says difficult to find any stocks with upside after they report...
  • Deutsche Bank says take advantage of Vertiv (VRT) weakness which is a database play...names it short term buy idea... calls it a headscratcher but the database stocks have been very weak... too many of them?
  • Truist lowers Twitter (TWTR) number in wake of sale of Mopub... I think there is still a chance to save Twitter...they must recognize that bloodsport is Twitter and Twitter+ is subscription free of smut...
  • Dell (DELL) upgraded hold to buy ahead of analyst meeting at Bernstein... we like old tech: Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL) and Dell —  has big balance sheet; demand...
  • Citi cuts PT on Alibaba (BABA) $234 to o $216... cites macro concerns, further soft consumption demand...
  • Good test of high multiple tech... UBS cuts Zscaler (ZS) price target, BUT goes from hold to buy ($380 down to 350)... cites sustainable thirty percent growth for cloud based platform mobile security... too many of these, too...
  • Piper goes buy to hold on Airbnb (ABNB)... expectations  too high?... PT $215 down to $165…this is the kind of story we have seen ever since the initial upgrades at the beginning of the year...
  • Piper thinks Biomarin (BMRN) gets nod on its Hemophilia drug...
  • Novartis (NVS)... Citi resumes with a buy—maybe short-term activist sentiment?...
  • William Blair starts Cvent (CVT) with a buy... still one more software as a service.... Had been for inperson...
  • Barclays takes American Express (AXP) price target from $171 to $182…AXP—strong econ and housing market...
  • Take-Two (TTWO) buys Zynga (ZNGA) for $9.86...had been $6...says combined company to deliver 14% compound annual growth....Farmville, Harry Potter puzzle game, Game of Thrones slots casino... did CEO Strauss Zelnick pay too much?... has work remote hurt these guys?

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