Mad Money: Key points from April 13, 2020 (Monday) episode

Jim Cramer: ‘I’m feeling more confident about the future’（https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/jim-cramer-i-am-feeling-more-confident-about-the-future.html）

• “When you look at the facts, I think there’s reason to be more hopeful than we have been,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said.
• “The worst case scenario’s been taken off the table, and if Apple and Google can do contact tracing that we all embrace … while we continue to roll out more testing, the economy could reopen a lot sooner than we thought even, say, three weeks ago,” the “Mad Money” host said.

Ticker: APPL, GOOGL

Executive Interview: The coronavirus pandemic ‘creates an opportunity’ for business, Levi Strauss CEO says (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/levi-strauss-ceo-coronavirus-crisis-creates-an-opportunity-for-business.html)

• “I fundamentally believe, through this crisis, strong brands are going to emerge from this stronger than ever,” Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh told CNBC.
• “I like to say that crisis creates an opportunity. … We’ve got a lot going on for us,” he said in a “Mad Money” interview.

Ticker: LEVI

Executive Interview: CARES Act opens new avenue for companies to offer 401(K)-like student loan benefits, startup Goodly CEO says (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/goodly-ceo-cares-act-opens-way-for-401k-like-student-debt-benefits.html)

• “One really critical provision within the CARES Act is that it allows employers to make contributions toward their employees’ student loans tax free for the first time,” Goodly CEO Greg Poulin said.
• The San Francisco startup outfits businesses with 401(K)-like student loan benefits programs. The CARES Act allows businesses to contribute $5,250 toward student debt this year, due to the coronavirus.
• “The unique thing about our system is that, by taking this approach, you can actually help the average employee on Goodly become debt free about 30% faster than they otherwise would have,” Poulin said.

Cramer’s lightning round: I think Starbucks is a buy (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/cramer-lightning-round-i-think-starbucks-is-a-buy.html)

• Dine Brands: “Chill man don’t like restaurants, here. Don’t like restaurants.”
• Bright Horizons Family Solutions: “Too many moving parts right now with work at home. We’ll take a pass on that.”
• MGM Resorts: “No. No. I mean, look: I just can’t go there. I think that Penn National Gaming is the only one that I’m recommending, and I don’t want anything to do with China, either.”
• Raytheon: “I’d be a buyer of RTX. I think it’s a good stock.”
• Starbucks: “It just keeps getting picked on. … I think Starbucks is a buy.”
• Enterprise Products: “Let’s be very careful there.”
• Blueprint Medicines Corp.: “It’s a spec, $3 billion spec but it is a spec and I like it. And I like biotech spec — you can own one of them. No more than one.”
• Targa Resources Corp.: “No. I mean like absolutely not, no.”

Ticker: DIN, BFAW, MGM, RTX, SBUX, EPD, BPMC, TRGP

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