Marvell falls 29%; Cramer flips bullish with a trillion-dollar ambition

Buying The Long Wait Jim Cramer’s bullish turn on Marvell Technology (MRVL) rests on a future investors are sharply discounting today. Bloomberg reports that Marvell has agreed to acquire Lumentum Holdings (LITE) in an all-stock transaction, combining businesses Cramer sees as central to the future data center. Switching from bearish to bullish, he argues that the combined company could eventually approach a trillion-dollar valuation, attributing the selloff partly to impatience with the closing timetable. Marvell nevertheless fell 29% over the week through Tuesday. With Bloomberg reporting an expected close in the first half of 2028, the unresolved issue is whether the strategic promise justifies the long wait—not whether AI infrastructure has a future.

Results Replace Calendar Bets Monday’s warning that the electoral calendar offers no insurance now faces a concrete development: AP reports Wednesday that global shares rose broadly after Democrats gained both congressional chambers. New since that edition, Katie Stockton’s Tuesday call offers a tactical explanation for relief—short-term oversold conditions favor a positive election reaction—but makes reclaiming support the test of whether the recovery is meaningful. In the latest Prof G Markets episode, recorded before the results, Tom Lee supplies a different argument: he expects technology companies to court Democratic lawmakers and win support for data centers, rather than treating a Democratic sweep as automatically hostile to AI. The S&P 500 ETF (SPY) was still down 2% over the week through Tuesday’s close, before AP’s reported global reaction. Lee’s political accommodation thesis reaches beyond the initial bounce; Stockton’s chart-based condition remains unresolved by the removal of election uncertainty alone.

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Banks Defy The Ballot Republican control odds fell this week from 32% to 10% for the Senate and from 8% to 2% for the House; on our reading of those markets, that weakens the prospect of bank-friendly deregulation. Katty Kay expected Democrats to take the House, but framed the change as political mood as much as legislation—a useful limit on the banking-policy concern we raised on Sunday. The new tension is price: the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) rose 2% over the week through Tuesday, so bank shares and that interpretation of the election odds pointed in opposite directions.

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Dollar Flows Versus Easing Steve Englander remains dollar-positive because technology investment draws both direct and portfolio capital into the US, although he acknowledges greater political headwinds. John Hardy expects eventual dollar weakness to coincide with the next major easing, but explicitly leaves the starting level uncertain. With the Invesco DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP) flat over the week through Tuesday, the test is whether technology-linked inflows retain their force when easing arrives—not which argument explains today’s price.

Tech Needs An IPO An additional stock offering is Jim Cramer’s unusual prerequisite for a healthier technology market: he sees Anthropic’s IPO as the crucial test of investor demand for AI labs. Without it, he expects major technology shares to continue surrendering gains, making the deal a proposed confidence catalyst rather than merely another company seeking capital. With the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) down 9% over the month through Tuesday, that is a specific explanation of what could change sentiment—not evidence that the change has happened.