Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: Stocks are slightly lower Thursday, but not far from the S & P 500 ‘s record close set Wednesday. Oil spiked a few dollars per barrel and the China stock market rally resumed overnight. Both have been headwinds to S & P 500 gains. The slightly warmer-than-expected September inflation data isn’t causing a lot of volatility, though, as the market seems more focused on the downward trend with an eye on third-quarter earnings in the weeks ahead. A defense of Salesforce : There was a bullish note on Salesforce published Thursday by Piper Sandler titled.
