Jim Cramer's Monday list starts with Meta's plan to raise $95 billion for AI infrastructure: $35 billion through underwritten public equity offerings and $60 billion through an at-the-market program, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom interested in contributing up to $5 billion as cornerstone investors. Elon Musk said SpaceX secured a $40 billion debt deal for AI chips and that debt markets have almost closed to neoclouds, pressuring stocks including CoreWeave. Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT, with terms to come later and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs named as top underwriters. This busy week also brings the Fed's two-day meeting and earnings from 11 companies in Cramer's Investing Club portfolio, including Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, while Bernstein trimmed its FedEx price target to $377 from $397 and UBS raised its Amazon target to $348 from $318. Finally, EQT is buying Range Resources in a $13 billion deal to create the nation's largest natural gas producer.
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