When we talk during the 9 a.m. ET hour of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” the morning show I love so much, there’s never time to flesh things out. We hit topic after topic: bang, bang, bang. Occasionally, though, Carl Quintanilla will serve it up, I’ll lob it back, and then David Faber smashes it in my face. And, I love it. It happened this past week when I said I was gratified that the market was rotating into more than tech. It’s not easy when I could argue these days that some 30% of this tape is tech or trying to be tech when outfits like Deere or SLB could easily be included. Hyperbole, to be sure, but you know what I mean. Think of it, though, 12 days ago, I was lamenting that Club name Abbott Laboratories was struggling to hold $112 per share, amazing presentation and all at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, the best presentation of the majors. This week, Abbott closed at $125. That’s a monster move, and it was at the vanguard of a group that has been struggling for ages. That’s not multiple expansion as much as the end of multiple contraction. We have had some dynamic moves in the non-tech artificial intelligence stories, think Club names Eaton and Dover and many others that are trying to get a piece of the AI market. I have to say that I continue to like the action in the financials. You can always tell a torrid rotation when there’s a stock caught up in the vortex like new Bullpen stock Capital One, which is about to merge with Discover Financial . I know I got a call earlier this week questioning whether President Donald Trump would really crack down on usury. I think it’s the opposite. He’s more likely to crater the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, something he may regard as a needless financial regulator. In that environment, there’s nothing better than a bank that gives credit to the less than credit-worthy but charges very high rates. Sure, I like the “buy now, pay later” names. My favorite is PayPal with a very important analyst meeting in February. You know I like Affirm and that breakout in SoFi looks so for real. But the merger with Discover makes me feel that Capital One will have multiple years of points. What’s most impressive about this rotation is that it has nothing to do with the resurgent consumer, except when it comes to American Express , which has been a horse ever since Steve Squeri took it over in 2018 with a lot of that just in the last two years. One of my favorites. Another one that got away. So many have gotten away that you start thinking you have to jump in. But with the S & P 500 Short Range Oscillator at a positive 5.6% that’s out of the question. A reading above 4% signals the stock market is overbought. You know that’s the law for me — to be more prone to trim than buy in overbought situations — and it makes me wonder whether this rotation is the last one for a bit as we cool off. Cool-offs were the way under the last 15 months of the Biden administration. But that may not be all that applicable now. We’ll have to see.l Every time we mention the Oscillator, we’re flooded with requests from Club members: “How can we access?” Well, we went directly to the source, our partners at MarketEdge, the data provider that publishes the Oscillator. We’re excited to share that Club members can now get an exclusive discount for this helpful tool. Click here . Can the money rotate back to tech? That’s a tall order. Too many big tech quarters to rotate into. But the biggest question facing tech is the news about DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that is using Nvidia ‘s chips in a way that makes it sound like you don’t need as many as you thought to have generative artificial intelligence. The buzz started just last week and blossomed in an article in The New York Times on Thursday, followed by a lot of downside action on Friday. Nvidia’s stock was the worst performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the week as traders were shooting first, not wanting to know more about DeepSeek while still holding Nvidia. You could tell that because we had just found out about Meta Platforms ‘ huge order. I was betwixt and between feeling as out-to-sea as everyone else about DeepSeek. Is it a friend of all of the customers of Nvidia? Is it just another Nvidia customer? Or is it some sort of existential threat to the company? We have always been concerned that something would come along that would be faster, better, and cooler than an Nvidia chip. I never thought it would be a client who got much more out of an Nvidia chip that it didn’t need as many. Will this mean that fewer are ordered? Cancellations? We already know that Nvidia continues to have a hard time making Blackwell, something that could impact the numbers. The stock is way too elevated for cancellations or missteps at this point. Call me torn on this one. We trimmed some Nvidia because it got too big not that long ago. It was not my intention to sell more but we have been selling down a bunch of the Magnificent Seven stocks simply because there are other stocks that might present better opportunities. I made that clear to you at the January Monthly Meeting last week, and it’s been on my mind for weeks now. The Club owns positions in six the so-called Mag 7 – Apple , Alphabet , Amazon , Microsoft , and the aforementioned Meta and Nvidia. We don’t own the seventh name in the cohort, Tesla , for reasons I explained in my Jan. 5 column . I am also mindful that Trump, with a soft hand on tariffs, caused quite a bit of a rally. But the Trump I know isn’t going to stay soft. He’s giving the Chinese so many opportunities to do something good for him, for us, the investing public. I don’t see much in return whether it be in orders of our goods or a less friendly line to Russia. Trump’s patience wears real thin – and when it does, there’s really no turning back. Do the Chinese not know that? Mexico seems different. I sense that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is a force to be reckoned with. She’s new, too, and she has plenty of support. But there’s going to be a negotiation, a more thoughtful approach than people expect. Call it moderation. One thing I don’t want to do is have so little cash at this moment with the market overbought, and the two hardest weeks of each quarter – earning season – staring us in the eyes. It’s a good time to trim and reflect, and it’s a good time to keep digging into Nvidia. I don’t want to be so complacent as to ignore something that would make it so that Nvidia can’t get monopolistic rent even as we all know that this is a monopoly not by threat or by brute force. It’s a monopoly by intelligence, the only kind that’s thought to be unassailable. (See here for a full list of the stocks in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust.) 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When we talk during the 9 a.m. ET hour of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” the morning show I love so much, there’s never time to flesh things out. We hit topic after topic: bang, bang, bang. Occasionally, though, Carl Quintanilla will serve it up, I’ll lob it back, and then David Faber smashes it in my face.
And, I love it.
