Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. The S & P 500 is down more than 1% Friday, on pace for a weekly loss of over 2%. The stock market has been pressured by AI trade valuation concerns, the government shutdown — and related air travel cuts — and massive layoffs in October. Meanwhile, a University of Michigan survey Friday showed that consumer sentiment hit its lowest level in more than three years as the shutdown drags on. “If we get some positive movement on the reopening of the government, you should start to see some type of short-term pop” for the market, said Jeff Marks, director of portfolio analysis for the Club. Additionally, Nvidia shares tumbled more than 4% Friday after CEO Jensen Huang said the company isn’t in talks to sell scaled-down Blackwell AI chips to China. Although China sales haven’t been included in Nvidia’s outlook for some time, many investors were still holding out hope that shipments could restart following some encouraging developments this summer . While they haven’t come to fruition yet, we maintain our long-held “own it, don’t trade” stance on the chip stock. Finally, Club names Cisco and Disney will report earnings next week. 2. Club holding Texas Roadhouse shares advanced over 1% Friday despite a mixed third-quarter quarter earnings report Thursday night. The steakhouse chain delivered better-than-expected same-store sales, even as a pullback in consumer spending has hurt other restaurant operators. Plus, executives’ commentary on October sales trends were encouraging against a tough backdrop, which is likely contributing to Friday’s stock rally. However, management did raise its commodity inflation outlook due to higher beef prices, which has continued to weigh on profitability. In response to earnings, a handful of Wall Street firms reiterated their buy ratings on shares. Mizuho was one of them. Analysts called the company’s 2026 margin expectations “de-risked.” 3. JPMorgan added GE Vernova to its analyst focus list and also placed the gas turbine maker on a positive catalyst watch. Analysts cited the Club stock’s recent weakness despite a solid third-quarter print , and argued that investor expectations are “relatively muted” ahead of the company’s investor event on Dec. 9. JPMorgan, which has a buy-equivalent rating on the stock, sees GE Vernova as “one of the highest quality ways” to play the boom in AI data centers. We couldn’t agree more. That’s why we added to our position on Thursday. (Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust is long CSCO, DIS, NVDA, TXRH, and GEV See here for a full list of the stocks.) As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB. NO SPECIFIC OUTCOME OR PROFIT IS GUARANTEED.
