$ABT Abbott Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $ABT Abbott Tape Reports — 11 podcast mentions across 5 podcasts (30 days), latest 2026-08-26 15:23 UTC.
In the meantime, a very positive resolution for Meta with 47 states. The average— there were many indicated indications that this could be as much as $200 billion that they owe. Instead, it's capped at $18 billion over 10 years. Now, having worked very closely with the drug company a series of drug companies, Abbott, most recently J&J. If you could get a settlement this big, I mean, you know, which is viewed as a tiny settlement over a 10-year period, then you've gotten a really big break here. Somehow the narrative has turned to say that it was not a good thing for Meta. That's insane. The usage requirements are so, are so easily met by Meta. They're not easily met by TikTok, not easily met by YouTube. And so the idea that the stock is down is just ridiculous. Okay. Now, there is a possibility that people feel this could be an equity offering. But I think at these prices, given the fact that they don't have free cash flow, it's entirely possible that that's what it is. But I can assure you, people who— people who are subscribers, I'm going to tell you that this is wrong.
Jim Cramer — Squawk on the Street · CNBC Investing Club: Cramer’s Morning Take on Nvidia & Meta Platforms 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26Well, did you talk about Governor Abbott's comments yesterday? We did.
Carl Quintanilla — Squawk on the Street · 9AM HOUR: Chips Rebound Ahead of Nvidia Earnings, Druckenmiller Slams Treasury, Dick's Sporting Goods Shares Plunge · 2026-08-25My mission is simple: to make you money. I'm here to level the playing field for all investors. There's always a bull market somewhere, and I promise to help you find it. Mad Money starts now. Hey, I'm Kramer. Welcome to Mad Money. Welcome to Kramer. How you doing, my friends? I'm just trying to make a little bit of money here. My job, not just to entertain, but to teach. Call me 1-800-743-CMC. Tweet me @JimCramer. The data center thesis, perhaps the greatest investment theme in a generation, is now under attack. And it may never be the same. We're now seeing a mad scramble to invest in anything but data centers. Insurers, banks, household products, you name it. And that's why the averages aren't collapsing. Dow advancing 140 points, S&P declining 0.2%, and the Nasdaq, the home of many a data center-related company, losing 0.76%. So do you stick with the data center betting the buyers will come back, or do you throw in the towel and go with the other sectors that are now winning? Let's pull this apart before we answer, because it's a big question, which you certainly felt if you own anything related to today's most meaningful actions. And there was a lot. A lot happening. Hey, why don't we start talk with data center? Okay. Before the election rhetoric against data centers got really loud, that's a very new phenomenon. We all assumed that the data center buildout would be the— I'd say be investable for the long haul. Then all of a sudden we got this resounding backlash against the data center. You either paid attention or you got slaughtered. Winners turned to losers overnight. The big switch that totally changed the dynamic. The governors of Pennsylvania and Texas, both of whom are up for reelection, heard the drumbeat, switched sides, going from unbridled support for data centers to a much more restrictive set of rules. If you're pro-data center, one day the hyperscalers are informing towns that a data center is coming in. Maybe the local government can negotiate to prevent anything too rapacious. The next day, governors across, across America, they're trying to shut you down. I want you to take a listen to what Greg Abbott— he's the Republican governor of Texas, told ABC News yesterday.
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24Yep, he wants to force these companies to get local approval before they can build. Now, first, that's unreasonable. Shouldn't the data center builders play with an open hand, talk about what they can do in return for allowing a data center in the vicinity? But we don't know how many localities would want data centers. We don't know how long it'll take to roll out this new approval process. Abbott said these companies, quote, basically dug their own grave. And maybe he's got a point. I think AI needs better marketing because the biggest boosters of this technology love to tell you that it'll cause mass unemployment, possibly destroy the world. That's not a great pitch. In many ways, it was Governor Shapiro. It was his switch in Pennsylvania. I thought it was a much bigger deal. He is Democrat. He'd been a big backer. While he didn't shut down data centers, he did sign an executive order that said they, quote, "could harm Pennsylvania's right to clean air and pure water," end quote, as well as raise the price of utility bills. Wow, bad. His message to data center developers, quote, "If you can't agree to our strict requirements and get the communities where you want to build to say yes, then you're not welcome. You're not going to have the Commonwealth support either." Wow, so no Commonwealth support, not welcome from a guy who was welcoming and really encouraging everybody to come build data centers. In Pennsylvania. Not a blanket no, but an echo about the water, air, and electricity concerns that have many— that many builders have neglected, even as some now have gotten religion. But I guess it's too late. Neither governor is saying no to data centers, but both have gone from boosters to critics in the time it takes to flip a coin. Politicians don't do that unless they think something's very, very unpopular. So you can only imagine a wave of state and local leaders pushing to kill these projects going forward. We know that rules can be crafted and communities can be appeased, but the unbridled buildout is most likely over. Given that there's been immense demand from all the builders and potential builders, it's easy to see that some orders will indeed be canceled, if not many orders. But then again, what happens after the election?
Jim Cramer — Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer · Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24You know, I think the sea change on this really happened after Texas Governor Greg Abbott instituted a pause in his own state on data center development. He was a governor who, like many governors in both parties, really welcomed the developments in his state. Once he enacted that pause, he was really one of the first, if not the first Republican to kind of go hard against data centers in this, in this manner. You saw Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio release a plan that was really kind of unique, calling for data centers to cover the full cost of electricity bills and property taxes for residents who live in the vicinity of the developments. And then you saw a number of of Republican candidates begin to cut anti-data center ads against their rivals.
Mark Carney — Meet the Press · Meet the Press NOW — August 24 · 2026-08-24Well, Jim, and we're going to talk about NVIDIA in a moment. This is connected to it. But how seriously are you weighing and taking this growing opposition that is getting a great deal of coverage as well to data centers. And that's not just— it's on both sides of the political aisle. Now, you mentioned Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, which, you know, of course, was a state that embraced the construction of data centers wholeheartedly until very recently. Governor Shapiro and Governor Shapiro as well.
David Faber — Squawk on the Street · 9AM HOUR: Big Market Week: Bessent, Warsh and Earnings from Nvidia 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24Okay. What part? What part? The party that says, listen, let's go buy Kraft Heinz. The party that says Abbott Labs went from 92 to 116. That's the party. That's the party. This stock's exactly where it was last quarter.
Jim Cramer — Squawk on the Street · 9AM HOUR: Big Market Week: Bessent, Warsh and Earnings from Nvidia 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24And anything data center. And now I'm going to hit up the obvious and let me see if we don't go up the obvious ServiceNow. Okay. ServiceNow is a company that's not up today, or at least this morning, but it's up a quick 27 from where it was when it reported. Salesforce, which was up gigantically last week, up a little bit. I think that this is the battleground. These are the battleground because people just say, you know what, I don't want anything to do with Governor Abbott, Governor Shapiro, the angry people toward the data center. But I do want tech. I do want tech. I'll take medtech and I'll take non-semi-tech. And that's where we're going. Now, the problem, David, is non-semi-tech other than MongoDB doesn't really have tremendous staying power. But Adobe was down 30, now it's down 21%. So do you buy it?
Jim Cramer — Squawk on the Street · 9AM HOUR: Big Market Week: Bessent, Warsh and Earnings from Nvidia 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24