Google and Blackstone Announce $5 Billion Cloud Partnership; Jim Cramer Updates Investing Club

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Google and Blackstone Announce $5 Billion Cloud Partnership; Jim Cramer Updates Investing Club
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  1. Tuesday, May 19, 2026: Jim Cramer discusses his next moves for the Investing Club

  2. 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 Monday's key moments. 1. Stocks were mixed Monday as investors rotated back into software names while many AI hardware and data center stocks pulled back. "Software is reigning supreme, and hardware is selling down," Jim said. Club holding Salesforce and cloud computing company ServiceNow climbed roughly 3% and 6.5%, respectively. Meanwhile, Micron Technology fell nearly 4%. Jim said the market continues to shift between themes as investors rotate out of high-flying AI infrastructure stocks and into previously lagging areas of the market. "I would like to buy the hardware when it's down and sell the software when it's up," he said. 2.

  3. 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.

  4. Google and Blackstone BX announced late Monday that they would team up to create a new cloud focused on tensor processing units, which are Google’s custom chips. Blackstone plans to commit $5 billion at the outset to help bring 500 megawatts of cloud capacity online next year. Google, a unit of Alphabet GOOG GOOGL, will supply the chips, software and various services.

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    Financial Times

    Google and Blackstone to create AI cloud group Search giant and world’s largest private capital group set to bring 500MW of data centre capacity online next year

    CNBC

    Blackstone, the world's largest private owner of data centers, will invest $5 billion in equity capital in a new artificial intelligence infrastructure company with Google, the New York-based asset management firm announced Monday.

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  1. 01 CNBC

    Stocks rally and oil falls. Plus, the implications of Samsung averting a strike Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

  2. 02 MarketWatch

    Tech Stocks CoreWeave’s stock falls as new Google cloud venture may signal more competition ahead

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