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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Can You Survive a stock Market Crash ?

We're talking very simple, common sense rules to remember in a market crash like: •I am a long-term investor and I know the stock market always comes back. I will sleep secure knowing history is on my side. •I will remember to sell high and buy low. If the market crashes, I will move money from cash equivalents (Treasuries, etc.) into stocks with every 50-point drop in the Dow or five-point drop in the S&P 500. (Do the reverse when the market hits new record highs.) [And remember, those were 1995 benchmarks. Adjust accordingly for 2013.] •I will make sure anything I buy was hit by the decline. In other words, I won't buy anything that didn't go down, because it probably won't go up. I want to use a big market break to buy quality stocks cheaply. •I will not read, listen to or believe negative stories during the crash. I know things are never as good as they seem when you're winning, and never as bad as they seem when you're losing. The blessed media will probably be uniformly negative if we have a real barn burner of a crash. The obvious question: Given the nature of the markets, with high-frequency trading, the emergence of ETFs and an overall different market characteristic than 18 years ago, do the same rules apply today?

Thursday, March 14, 2013

The 1 Financial Stock in Which I'd Put all my Money ( $GS )

Cramer's Stocks to Watch

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Is Google a Buy? ( $GOOG )

Taking a closer look at what Google's chart looks like now, with Carter Worth, Oppenheimer and John Stephenson, First Asset Investment Management. http://finance.yahoo.com/video/talking-numbers-google-buy-203000671.html

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Top 10 best stocks in the past 10 years

The market’s 10 best stocks from The Motley Fool

After looking at the list, a couple of things jump out at us. First, priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN ) and WisdomTree (NASDAQ: WETF ) were able to offer innovative products and services, which disrupted their industries in major ways. Learning more from Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who is an expert on disruptive innovation, might be a wise resolution for all investors.
1. WisdomTree Investments (Nasdaq: WETF)Market Cap $736 Return Return is percentagechange – dividend adjusted [12/07/2002-12/07/2012] Data from CapIQ. 5,482%WisdomTree operates as an exchange-tradedfunds sponsor and asset manager. It’s now theseventh largest ETF provider, and has benefitedfrom the incredible rise of this revolutionaryand disruptive investment product.
2. NewMarket Corporation (NYSE: NEU) MarketCap $3,588 Return Return is percentagechange – dividend adjusted [12/07/2002-12/07/2012] Data from CapIQ. 5,546%Through its subsidiaries, NewMarket operatesin the petroleum additives and real estatedevelopment businesses. The company hasbeen able to grow its net income by 31% peryear over the past five years.
3. priceline (Nasdaq: PCLN) Market Cap $30,760Return Return is percentage change – dividendadjusted [12/07/2002- 12/07/2012] Data fromCapIQ. 6,639% This disruptive online travelcompany let travelers name their own priceand that revolutionary approach led toastronomic gains for investors. This has beenone of Fool co-founder David Gardner’s biggestwinners.
4. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Market Cap $488,059Return Return is percentage change – dividendadjusted [12/07/2002- 12/07/2012] Data fromCapIQ. 7,097% Apple didn’t just put togetherone of the most remarkable decades of anypublic company in the world today -- it puttogether one of the most remarkable decadesby a public company in all of human history.
5. DXP Enterprises (Nasdaq: DXPE) Market Cap$654 Return Return is percentage change –dividend adjusted [12/07/2002- 12/07/2012]Data from CapIQ. 9,404% DXP is engaged inthe business of distributing maintenance,repair, and operating products, equipment andservice to industrial companies. It may soundboring, but the company has been able togrow sales from $125 million in 1996 to $807million in 2011.
6. Arabian American Development Company(NYSE: ARSD) Market Cap $178 Return Returnis percentage change – dividend adjusted[12/07/2002- 12/07/2012] Data from CapIQ.9,488% The company’s principal businessactivity is the manufacturing of variousspecialty petrochemical products. Itsimpressive record of earnings per share growthhas ultimately resulted in great performancefor the stock.
7. TGC Industries (Nasdaq: TGE) Market Cap $164Return Return is percentage change – dividendadjusted [12/07/2002- 12/07/2012] Data fromCapIQ. 9,536% TGC is engaged in thegeophysical service business of conductingthree-dimensional surveys for clients in the oiland gas business. Formerly one of BusinessWeek’s fastest-growing small companies, it sawits share price soar from 2002 to 2007.
8. Terra Nitrogen Company (NYSE: TNH) MarketCap $3,881 Return Return is percentagechange – dividend adjusted [12/07/2002-12/07/2012] Data from CapIQ. 10,155% TerraNitrogen is a limited partnership that producesnitrogen fertilizer products. The company hasbenefited tremendously from the long-termshift towards nitrogen fertilizers.
9. SBA Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: SBAC)Market Cap $8,864 Return Return ispercentage change – dividend adjusted[12/07/2002- 12/07/2012] Data from CapIQ.12,019% SBA owns and operates wirelesscommunication towers in theU.S., Canada, Costa Rica, and other high-growth markets. Its primary business is in siteleasing, which has allowed the company toachieve remarkable growth.
10. Monster Beverage Corp (Nasdaq: MNST)Market Cap (in millions) $9,042 ReturnReturn is percentage change – dividendadjusted [12/07/2002- 12/07/2012] Data fromCapIQ. 19,958% Formerly Hansen Natural,Monster Beverage has benefited from thegrowing demand for natural soda and energydrinks. Recent growth has

Secondly, boring, old energy and materials companies were well-represented on the list. This might be a good thing to remember the next time a shiny social networking IPO dominates the news coverage for several months.

Finally, when looking for the best stocks of the next decade, be on the lookout for meaningful trends. Some trends -- like the increasing use of the Internet for buying goods and services -- might be quite obvious. Other trends, however -- like the long-term shift to nitrogen fertilizers, which helped Terra Nitrogen (NYSE: TNH ) make our list -- may not be so obvious.

There isn't, alas, some facile formula for finding the great stocks of the future. With discipline, imagination, and perhaps a bit of luck, it might be possible, however, to discover big winners that can turbocharge the overall returns of your portfolio.

One big question on a lot of investors' minds is whether Apple can continue its remarkable run. In our latest premium report, The Motley Fool's senior technology analyst and managing bureau chief, Eric Bleeker, lays out both the bull and bear cases for Apple. To get all of his latest thinking on Apple, simply

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) , which ranks seventh on our list of top-performing stocks over the past decade, is one huge exception, of course. Just 10 years ago, Apple had a market cap of $5.4 billion. Today, it has the No. 1 market cap in the world, and is one of the most respected and recognizable brands around. And in just the past 10 years, the company has introduced both the iPhone and iPad, two products that have transformed our culture in countless ways.

Many of the other top stocks were indeed small and obscure, however. Eight of the companies were valued below $100 million a decade ago. And four of the companies still have market caps below $1 billion, even with the remarkable returns they were able to generate over the past decade.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

CNBC Hotel: Behind Closed Doors at Marriott

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Watch Mad Money, CNBC November 30, 2012

but again only on news of setbacks to the fiscal cliff talks. we're not going to go in and buy anything these days. you'll get some representative congressman, senator come on say you stupid idiot. you bought stock and i'm talking on a microphone. i'm sending the stock market down because there's no progress. we have not one but two huge analyst days next week. only one an opportunity to buy. starbucks is coming to town on wednesday. you better get ready for one terrific show as the one and only howard schultz i believe will tell you that business is smoking in so many places in china to the united states and that tebana will be the next generation starbucks as soon as the merger is completed. the next day yum brands. it's coming to town. that company will have some explaining to do. i will have more on what yums needs to tell us. the sting of the earnings shortfall last night will still be with us no matter how good kentucky fried chicken might taste. also we hear from lulu lem athletics. i got a situation for how to trade this wild stock. wait until it looks like it blew up. then buy some. but listen, i'm sanctioning buying this stock at the opening only if i give you the green light when i'm on my other show. it's called on the street. i need you to exploit this pattern which is in part orchestrated by short sellers who always try to make the stock look worse than it is. you'll get the early look from me. i'm try to give it to you around 9:15 about whether i think the quarter isn't as bad as people think it is. the nonfarm payroll report on friday. normally that would be the first thing i talk about. this time around i'm not going to emphasize it. sandy has made the month of november virtually irrelevant. we can sweat it, puzzle over it. in the end we'll have to dismiss it unless the unemployment rate has shockingly dropped. which would be an odd anomale which shows the rest of the country could pick up the slack of the northeast. i don't think that's going to happen. next week's game plan starts on sunday when treasure secretary tim geithner will appear on meet the press with my friend david gregory and hopefully explain how we're going to get out of this fiscal cliff mess. for once i actually believe we'll be able to bridge the cliff on the eve of destruction. and knowing that, i am both a guy who wants to take the pin off before new year's and i'm a buyer into negative capital chat ernext week. not a seller like so many of the pessimists out there. why don't we start with neil in florida. neil. reporter: boo ya, jim. it's neil in florida. facebook dropped. what should i do? hold or drop zynga? have a little january effect. everybody selling that thing nine ways to sunday. bad news. maybe they'll finish accepting by the end of december. and then you sell in the first week of january when it should lift. let's go to ramon in california. ramon caller: hey, jim, boo ya, baby, calling you from riverside county but born and raised in the san fernando valley. i'm a frequent watcher, jim. thank you for all that you do. thank you for that. that is a -- go ahead caller: my question is with the recent news of a possible takeover on walter energy, what is your stance, sir, on the possible buy on the stock. i cannot recommend anyone buying stock on a takeover basis when i think the fundamentals are not going the right way. the fundamentals are not going the right way. let's go back to florida. bart in florida. bart. caller: yes, jim, i really enjoy your program. i see where the earnings on tether pharmaceuticals has been reduced. i wonder what you think the future of the stock looks like. sunshine that stock was down about 1.70 when that news came out between 7:30 and quarter of 8 and it rallied hard. to up 13 cents. my take is this. i don't like it. i think it can go to 42. and then sell sell sell. okay. keep an eye on sunday's meet the press for yours truly. of course treasure secretary geithner to tell us about the fiscal cliff. if we hear that we can bridget, and i'll bet you we might, then i'm all about trying to find out the next special dividend stock. plan the analyst meetings and getting ready for what could be a rip roaring rally. mad money will be right back. coming up, software sensation? well, some in tech have struggled, sap's push has sent its shares skyward. tonight cramer gets the hard facts of where the software giant could be headed in its exclusive with its ceo. and later what the heck? office max has defied the street's expectations, causing its shares to double this year alone. but can it continue to supply you with profit or is a paper jam just around the corner? plus still yummy? shares of yum brands were tarred and feathered today as the owner of some of the world's biggest fast food brands revealed a less than satisfying outlook. but is your opportunity to order up some shares or cut out the fat? don't miss cramer's take all coming up on mad money. don't miss a second of mad money. follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney at cnbc.com. or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. listen up. not all contingency companies are created equal. text stocks stuck in the past hewlett-packard. the companies that have embraced the future have been rewarded. not just apple or amazon. consider sap, the giant company that makes software for the enterprise. doesn't make a red hot gadget. it's better than that. sap has a vision of where the future is headed. applications for the mobile, cloud, memory computing, big data. all the big themes i talk about constantly. the strongest themes in technology. and sap dominates them. that's where you want to be. so tonight we have -- sap refused to allow the world to pass them by or be confined by the weak europe including germany appears to be on the brink of recession. the last quarter was fabulous, best in its history. stocks a half a point off its high. terrific 51% gain since i got behind it on august of 2011. it's not done. i think it has room to run. let's check in with the co-ceo of sap. good to see you, jim. best third quarter in history. yes. how is it possible? we're focused on the nexus of forces as you mentioned. when we put the strategy of the company together we were determined to double the addressable market. where's the world going? it's going mobile. do you know anyone that doesn't have a mobile device? no. and i don't want anything else frankly. exactly. more mobile devices in the world than toothbrushes. that was good enough for us to focus on mobile. are you still the largest buyer of some mobile devices? i don't know in we're the largest but up there. we have done a lot of work with apple no doubt about it. we focused on mobile and big data. data is doubling in the world every 18 months. so it's probably a good idea to manage that big data and have the crystal ball for the enterprise which is sap hana where you bring all the data structured and unstructured into main memory so you can google your data. bill let's put anytime english for people. is there a bigger piece of data out there than any bank or bank of america constantly being used? we took bank of america. they used to close the bank at 4:00 in the afternoon. work all night to figure out where to invest their cash. that was an all-night process. lots of people. now hana does it in minutes. in minutes! at 4:30 they know what they have. they know what they've got and they know exactly where that money's going. saves them a fortune. and their investors will be happy because the money will go into the right play and they know it. it's not just banking. that's a good vertical field. you bring up caterpillar lately in your presentations. what did you do for cat? cat wants to do things like smart farming. their big iron should be in those farms actually really understanding the turf and the dirt and what's likely to happen for the farmers so they become a strategic adviser to the farmer with their big gear. so you now take business models and rethinking them and innovating them in ways that were never possible. nonfu springs? china go to a spring, bottle up water, put it in trucks to deliver to their constituents. that process was five hours. now with hana we have the transportation plan figured out. not from five hours, in 2 1/2 minutes. what does that mean? 30% lower transportation costs. 15% lower total costs for their company. 4% margin improvement across the enterprise. the winning strategy. yes, it is. but now i want to one up that. tell me what you've done for nfl. i am very tield. we have a commissioner here for fantasy football. sometimes i want to wring his neck. he says i can't get the download of the waiver wire for multiple hours. this is a rival web site. what have you done for nfl.com? eric and roger goodell, these are great leaders. they know what to do for their fans. they want to improve the fan experience. phone call you? i know you call everybody. call me. exactly. or i'll call them. as long as we talk we can solve problems. now it will be run on sap hana in the cloud. now you've got people getting immediate answers to their questions. you get your favorite players. pick your favorite teams. nfl wins the game and you're a happy fan. we're going to try it next year. we may wean ourselves off the guys that we're currently using as nice as they are. did a great acquisition. ariba. it is the e-bay of the enterprise. think of it this way. more than four times the amount ofmerce that goes through ariba -- excuse me that goes through e-bay goes through ar more than four times the amount of commerce. in that global network they have in the matching network they have? exactly. so 350 million u.s. dollars go through the ariba network oh and every day. but it's an addressable market of 8 trillion u.s. dollars. so you're connecting buyers and sellers in a global business network. what does that do for the customer? i got everybody competing for my business. i'm going to get a lower price point. okay. i get that. now, our friend peter mcclausen, i'm sure you know, he brought in sap and we weres anxious to have it done fast. we made a series of acquisitions. sometimes they just can't call you and have it be done in a day, can they? here's the deal. the days of sold implementations have radically changed. why? because you can put it on the cloud. so many companies today are going to innovate at the edge of the enterprise for their people, their suppliers, their customers or their money. and they'll innovate on the edge of the enterprise in the cloud. or some company, small, mid size as an example and some large once will run their entire company, either a public or private cloud. the good thing about sap is we can run an entire company in the cloud or innovate at the edge of the cloud. so the days of old long, time-consuming implementations over. last side. they're waving me off. i'm not done. please go. europe is incredible strong for you. we know europe is falling off a cliff. on the one hand europe could be falling off the cliff and on the other hand very strong for you. think of it this way. if companies have less revenue they got to reset their cost base. they'll have to do more with less. software from sap will help them do that. also if you look at certain markets in europe like germany, middle east, africa, there are some parts that are really growing. and with very strong brand. if you want to grow your revenues, be mobile with your consumer, leverage the cloud for lower cost, optimize your supply chain, whatever you want to do, sap does it all. it does. normally someone might say jim why did you give him that last minute free pass? that's what happens when you got a stock as fabulous as your. you're able to tell the story. jim i have 65,000 people and an echo system six times that size that's passionate about the customer. what we tried to bring to this company is a custom centristity and innovation. bill mcdermott the co-ceo of sap. when we have to prove that other web site from fantasy football to nfl.com for your work. trying to make you more money. thank you, jim. coming um, what the heck? office max has defied the streets's expectations causing its shares to double this year alone. can it supply you with profit or is a paper jam just around the corner? if everything on the fiscal side kaifs what incentive is there for tax reform in 2013? ]this -- you can stay inand share something... ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ...or you can get out therewith your friends and actually share something. ♪♪ ♪♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our bestvalues of the year. this is the pursuitof perfection. ] scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. at scottrade, seven dollar tradesare just the start. our support teamsare nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investorsare saying... i'm with scottrade. market sometimes will do things that will seem downright senseless. occasionally you'll see a stock performing in a way that's so bizarre all you can think is what the heck? often there's a method to the market's madness. let's do some teaching. take office max. omx. smallest of the three big office supply chains. this is an industry you'd think would be in terrible shape right now. after all, office max makes the lion's share of its money selling supplies to small businesses. and we know that it's a very tough time to be a small business owner in this country. most small firms aren't expanding. they're not hiring. we're not seeing much in the way of new business creation. in part because of worries about the fiscal cliff. have entrepreneurs sitting on who wants to start a business without knowing what the capital gains tax will be, tax code rate. plus the whole office supply industry has been shrinking for awhile, not just office max but office depot andtaples as shifted away from using lots of paper towards digital solutions like apple ipads. meanwhile there's not that much demand for the technological devices some of the companies sell which have become increasingly commoditysed. just witness hideous performance of best buy. despite all these big perceived big picture, office max has been rallying like crazy. stock has run up 122% for year. and it's fallen from 4.26 from the beginning of august to nearly $10. right now where the stock is less than a point off its 52-week high. what the heck, right? five months ago this stock had been left for dead. but now somehow office max has managed to find new life and become a monster good performer. just when you expect the company to be take it on the chin. what the heck is really happening at this company? could it be that perhaps we're simply wrong about the sector? maybe that's the judgment. that the office supply business is much better than we thought? and office max is leading the charge? no no no. that's not it. we know because while competitive office depot is up 56% for the year to date an excellent move not as good as office max, staples which was once considered to b best of breed in this base is down 16% for the year. so there's no industry-wide turn. there is no rising tide lifting all office supply boats. this i a company-specific move. i think it's got two causes. expectations were incredibly low last year. office max got put through the metaphor cal meat grinder. it was horrible. falling from $17 to $4. as the company came into 2012 the ball was set very low. when the expectations are that low, even lousy results can take the stock hire as long as they aren't downright pitiful. last year sales nowhere near good. but in line with the street's expectations and not absolutely hard which was good enough to give the stock some lift at these levels. even though max has rallied this year, it climbed from $17. it still has a way to go before it's back to even. when you look at it in that context, this rally doesn't seem insane. office max has been trying to get its house in order. it announced it was reinstating its two cent per share quarterly dividend. not much. the stock yields about 1%. it also told us it was conducting a comprehensive capital allocation review. designed to simplify its balance sheet. a couple of important elements here. office max got caught up in the terrible lehman bankruptcy. they had bonds backed by lehman connected to timber assets. the courts resolved this in september. office max debt was reduced by about $735 million. big deal considering it's only an $860 million company. two weeks ago we learned about the ipo of boise cascade. what a great old name. a private company that made paper, corrugated containers, wood products and building materials bcc. used to be a big position of mine in an old hedge fund of mine. i was able to swing around a couple of them. 100 mill. office maximum owns 20% of this company. ipo will unlock hidden value by putting a hard value on that investment. office max is supporting the sale of its crocksley business in new zealand which is a wholesaler that does some manufacturing.we should hear about when the company reports its fourth quarter. impending boise cascade ipo, new zealand business became apparent office max was worth more than people had thought when they initially wrote the company off and left it for dead. investors thought this stock was a value trap. turns out it has real value. as the company had a better balance sheet than we imagined. a bunch of hidden assets. all the office supply states are shutting down. shutting their stores to reduce their footprint. too many of them. office max was ahead of the curve in this regard. they started reducing their square footage early. you probably saw some abandoned stores. in 2005 they started. way ahead of the competition. especially staples which decided to sit back and wait for its competitors to close stores in hopes that it might not have. to since office max is the smallest player in this space, about 900 stores they have less to lose than office depot. staples and office depot do business in new york. another reason why the stock's outperforming. lately there have been whispers and you go on the web, you google this thing and you're going to see it. i google it. i don't want to be a part of it but possible merger between office depot and office max. it's true that office depot and staples tried to merge in the mid 90s. justice department nixed that one. but the dynamics of the office supply system has changed a lot since the rise of the internet. i think it's more likely a dea would be allowed to happen in this base. staples buying office depot was the number one player by the number two. ixnay on that. the other merger number two player combining with the number three. justice is alwaysier on those. i never like to invest on takeover speculation. but there's no doubt office max would go higher if it happened to catch a bid. after this run office max is still cheaper than office depot or staples on an enterprise value basis. not recommending this on a takeover basis. here's the bottom line. i wouldn't recommend buying office max up here. it's just had a huge run, people. but the company's doing better than the competition. and it's balancing out to be a heck of a lot better than anyone believed six months ago. if we get a huge fiscal cliff-induced pull back i think you can feel good about pulling the trigger and taking down some office max if it were to drop a couple of points. as it turns out the value is in the better earnings stream, it could soon to follow. let's go to kelly in pennsylvania. kelly. caller: a big booyrom bucks county, pa. that's where i lived for a long time. what's going on? caller: my question is about microsystem inc. the company consistently beats analyst estimates an has had impressive double-digit revenue growth. is this a good technology play in the retail and hospitality industries? it is. you know what, this is really interesting this company. we looked at this before. i don't understand why the stock isn't doing that well. it's down for the year. let me do this. 3 billion company. we're going to do some work on this. because it is a little confounding. the company's doing okay. you're absolutely right. the company doigs okay. wel'l do more work and come back. let's go to steve in new york please steve caller: greetings jim from the beautiful finger lakes of central new york. i love the finger lakes. what's going on? caller: two-part question for liberty brands. it looks like the revenue numbers are finally catching up with the same store sale numbers as evidenced this past month. the stock has been in a trading range 45 to 49 for several months. today it closed at 52.15. is this the breakout we've been waiting for? i'm going to say yes. no one had a good month in november except for amazon and euro play and limited. if you have have a good month of november when a lot of businesses were shut down because of sandy, who knows what could happen during the closer we get holiday season period like right now. limiteds for me for you. what the heck was up with office max? i thought it would be left for dead but it's coming back to life. the company has some things going for it. if you're looking to get in, you'll see some senator or can goer or can go mn say /- /- -- or kong mann say. coming up send cramer an e-mail to mad money.com. or tweet him on an all new edition of mad mail. america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between usand what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburnin the first place! one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? break from the holiday stress. save on ground shippingat fedex office. @ it is time. it is time for the lightning round. are you ready?it's time for the lightning round. start with michael nebraska. michael caller: hey, jim, a big nebraska corn huskers booyah, man. i like your kicker. one of the good players on that team. what have you got? caller: excellent. win. i think china is coming back. i'm always a believer in steve wynn. how aboutoh jn in california? caller: boo ya, jim. my question is double down on barnes & noble right now? no. i went over that with a fine tooth comb. a lot of people didn't like the book basis. unfortunately those guys i love them they are a temple of sector learning you can't own the stock. illinois, charlie. caller: boo ya, jim, from ntral illinois. heart land. what's going on there? caller: well, i wanted to thank you for your excellent presentations scaling in and out of stock transactions. last friday it was very good. i'm interested in scaling into rentech nitrogen. with that good yield i think you're taking the appropriate action. i do want to scale into it. i think it's very attractive here. kevin in north carolina. kevin caller: yes, jim, a big boo ya to you. calling in about applied materials. oh, boy. all right, mr. tar heel. that's got a 3.5% yield. sell it because i don't think it's got anything cooking. laura in new york. laura caller: hi, jim, it's laura from new york. how are you? how are you, laura? caller: good, thanks. my stock is allen communications. buy or sell? it had gotten beat up because of the possibility people thought things were going to go awry in israel. the fundamentals are good. my friend who does breakout stocks tells meet fundamentals are terrific. i am a buyer not a seller. a lock. let's go to lee in california. lee. caller: mr. cramer, thank you very much for all the wisdom you share with us. sure do try. what's going on? caller: my stock is valley. i've been wrong and with the stock down should i hold, fold, double down? this used to be 28, 20, 32. it's been cut in half. we both think that at $17 this one is the chip. this is the way to play china because it's a huge iron work company. i want to own vale. let's go to terrence in new york. caller: hey, jim, i'm doing a portfolio for my professor alexander. i just want to know about general dynamics. i think general dynamics is a winner. why i do say that? i think we will avoid the fiscal cliff. and $66 stock could go higher. that ladies and gentlemen is the conclusion of the lightning round. the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. believe it or not, i actually used to be a mountain climber. what do you think? 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Sunday, November 25, 2012

"Betting on the Market" (1997) PBS Frontline. A stunning, historic persp...

A FRONTLINE classic from 1997. The Motley Fool, Dave & Tom Gardner, the Iomega Zip Drive meteoric rise and fall, and Jim Cramer comments, among others.

Jim Cramer of Mad Money at his Hedge Fund 1997

As mentioned in his book Real Money pgs 166 and 219, Jim Cramer invited a TV crew in from Frontline. This was in 1997, a year before he lost $91 million dollars and had to have his wife come out of retirement to bail him out

Thursday, November 22, 2012

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Superstorm Sandy: Status of Returning Electricity, Gas Shortages

The extreme weather team tracks the latest from the devastating hurricane.

Gas Lines, Gouging, and Hurricane Sandy: Keeping Prices Low Means Nobody...

Brooklyn, NY - It was mayhem yesterday afternoon at the Hess Gas Station at 4th Avenue and Union Street, where drivers waited in line for more than six hours to fill up their tanks. A separate line of customers on foot wrapped around the block inching red gas canisters up the sidewalk. The police were on the scene bringing justice to the line cutters.

Brandon Shamell, who transports handicapped customers for Countrywide, Inc., was standing off to the side observing the scene. "We're not going to be able to pick people up on Monday," says Shamell. "Gas is more important than food right now."

Lillian Rodriguez, who owns Family Car Service, spent the day in line in a battle to keep her drivers on the road. "I've been here since 6:43 [in the morning], making the line over and over again. And I will do that for as long as I can."

So why does it look 1973 all over again at gas stations throughout New York and New Jersey? Hurricane Sandy knocked power out to New Jersey's gas refineries, causing shortages throughout the region. Govs. Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo responded by doing exactly the wrong thing: They threatened to prosecute any station owners caught raising prices, thus removing any incentive to truck more gas in from other parts of the country.

Thanks to a cadre of small businessmen, though, Brooklyn residents have an alternative to spending all day in line. One man, who asked to remain anonymous, said that he was waiting in line over and over again and then selling gas across the street from the station at a 200 percent mark-up. "A lot of people honestly don't want to wait three hours, you know? It's happening at every gas station." He estimated that about half the people in line were in the resale business.

Recently at Reason.com, Anthony Randazzo made the case for price gouging to a skeptical cabbie, Katherine Mangu-Ward explained why "surge pricing" in taxis helps provide a crucial service to a "storm-weary populace," and Nick Gillespie outlined "3 Stupid Responses to Hurricane Sandy - and Every Other Disaster You Can Remember."

Friday, October 12, 2012

Cloud-Based IPOs: Workday Files to Raise $546M WDAY

- Cory Johnson reports on the success of cloud-based IPOs. He speaks with Nicole Lapin on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)

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Workday Inc. (WDAY) has just begun trading for the first time Friday morning. The company priced its initial public offering of 22.75 million
Workday Inc. (WDAY), a maker of Web-based human-resources programs, raised $637 million in its initial public offering, pricing the shares

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Oct 11	WDAY	Workday	$28.00	Expected	Profile
Oct 10	SSTK	Shutterstock	$17.00	Priced	Profile, News
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Hot Stocks

August 21st 2012 CNBC Stock Market (S&P 500 hits fresh bull market recov...

8/21/2012 - CNBC Stock Market Closing Bell (S&P 500 hits fresh bull market recovery highs).

The S&P 500 touches it's highest level since May 2008.

Monday, March 12, 2012

10 stocks to watch today

1. Food

Stocks:Syngenta (SYT 0.00%, news) and Monsanto (MON 0.00%, news)

The United Nations calls the global food crisis a "silent tsunami." Two billion people, mostly poor, depend on fish and other wild foods for protein. Their supplies have "collapsed or are in steep decline," forcing use of costly animal proteins. The rise in food prices is making it worse for billions living below poverty levels.

In "The End of Plenty," National Geographic warns "synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation, supercharged by genetically engineered seeds" are failing. A joint World Bank/UN study concluded that the immense production increases brought about by science and technology the past 30 years have failed to improve food access for many of the world's poor. Modern techniques have led to farming that's "destructive of the soil, the environment and us," Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, tells Time magazine.

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2. Farmland

Funds:Ceres Partners, Chess Capital Partners

Crop soils are "being carried away by water and wind erosion at rates between 10 to 40 times the rates of soil formation," Diamond warns in "Collapse." With forests, the soil-erosion rate is "between 500 and 10,000 times" the replacement rate, he estimates -- a trend accelerated by today's 100,000-acre megafires.

Ceres and Chess are hedge funds that own many small farms.

Additional stocks mentioned in this article: Kimberly-Clark (KMB 0.00%, news), International Paper (IP 0.00%, news) and DuPont (DD 0.00%, news).

3. Forests

Stocks:Kimberly-Clark (KMB 0.00%, news) and International Paper (IP 0.00%, news).

We are destroying natural habitats and rain forests at an accelerating rate. Half the world's original forests have been converted to urban developments. A quarter of what remains will be converted in the next 50 years.

4. Chemicals

Stocks:DuPont (DD 0.00%, news), Molycorp (MCP 0.00%, news) and Dow Chemical (DOW 0.00%, news).

Our solutions often create new problems. Consider the deadly impact of insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, plastics. The list is endless. For example, industries "manufacture or release into the air, soil, oceans, lakes, and rivers many toxic chemicals" that break down slowly or not at all, Diamond writes.

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5. Energy

Stocks:Exxon Mobil (XOM 0.00%, news), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B 0.00%, news), BP (BP 0.00%, news), ConocoPhillips (COP 0.00%, news) and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR 0.00%, news).

Oil, natural gas, coal. Pimco's Bill Gross described a "significant break" in the world's "growth pattern." The world is now past the "peak oil" tipping point. Consumer shopping will decline as economic growth slows in the future and corporate profits will be static.

6. Alternative energy

Stocks:Southern (SO 0.00%, news) and Westinghouse Solar (WEST 0.00%, news).

In "Seven myths about alternative energy," the Foreign Policy asks if biofuels, solar and nuclear are the "magic ticket" before answering that they're not. And they never will be, although some diversified energy companies are well into nuclear energy.

7. Water

Investment: government monopolies

Diamond warns: "Most of the world's fresh water in rivers and lakes is already being used for irrigation, domestic and industrial water," transportation, dams, fisheries and recreation. Water problems destroyed many earlier civilizations: "Today over a million people lack access to reliable safe drinking water."

By 2015 two-thirds of the world will live in water-stressed countries. Water will trade like oil futures. More and more wars will be fought over water and other basic resources concluded a 2003 Pentagon report predicting that "warfare will define human life by 2020.

Do economics point to chaos?
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8. Solar energy

Investment: very risky

Diamond warns that we're already using "half of the Earth's photosynthetic capacity," and will max out by midcentury. In "Plundering the Amazon," Bloomberg Markets magazine warns that Alcoa (AA 0.00%, news), Cargill and other resources giants "have bypassed laws designed to prevent destruction of the world's largest rain forest ... robbing the earth of its best shield against global warming

Company

Sector

YTD change

Forward P/E

Scouter score

ConocoPhillips (COP 0.00%, news)

Integrated oil and gas

5.9%

8.9

10

Exxon Mobil (XOM 0.00%, news)

Integrated oil and gas

-0.5%

9.4

9

Baker Hughes (BHI 0.00%, news)

Oilfield services

0.3%

8.4

8

BP (BP 0.00%, news)

Integrated oil and gas

9.2%

6.6

8

Chevron (CVX 0.00%, news)

Integrated oil and gas

3.0%

8.3

8

Southwestern Energy (SWN 0.00%, news)

Oil and gas exploration

3.4%

18.7

8

DirecTV (DTV 0.00%, news)

Broadcast satellite services

10.3%

8.9

10

Microsoft (MSFT 0.00%, news)

Software

23.2%

10.6

10

Two Harbors Investment (TWO 0.00%, news)

Real estate investment trust

11.5%

6.0

10

Lowe's (LOW 0.00%, news)

Home improvement stores

17.3%

13.4

10
TICKERS IN THIS ARTICLE.

NAME

LAST

CHNG

% CHNG

BHI

48.79

0.00

0.00

HAL

34.88

0.00

0.00

SLB

75.84

0.00

0.00

COP

77.16

0.00

0.00

XOM

84.30

0.00

0.00

Population growth bubble

Stocks:Wal-Mart Stores (WMT 0.00%, news), McDonald's (MCD 0.00%, news), Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD 0.00%, news) and L.L.Bean

Monday, September 26, 2011

Top Stocks Moving the Market Today ....

That's a big reason why the Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) fell 6.4% on the week. It's why Bank of America (BAC) fell 12.7%. It's why copper (-HG) fell 16.6% and gold (-GC) fell 9.6%. And it is a big reason why futures trading early Monday suggested the Dow will open down maybe 100 points, with the S&P 500 down 10 points and the Nasdaq-100 Index ($NDX) down 25 points.

Sector Watch

Strong

construction machinery; electronic manufacturing services; diversified financial services; diversified banks; electric utilities; apparel and accessories retailers

Weak

food distribution; gold

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If that's not enough to drive traders crazy, Dow component Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) booted Leo Apotheker as CEO after just 11 months in favor of former eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman

Markets for the week
	9/23/2011	9/16/2011	% chg.	YTD chg.
Dow Industrials	10,771.48	11,509.09	-6.41%	-6.96%
S&P 500	1,136.43	1,216.01	-6.54%	-9.64%
Nasdaq	2,483.23	2,622.31	-5.30%	-6.39%
Russell 2000	652.43	714.31	-8.66%	-16.74%
Crude oil	$79.85	$87.96	-9.22%	-12.62%
(per barrel)
U.S. Dollar Index	79.23	76.59	3.44%	-0.08%
10-yr. Treasury	1.81%	2.08%	-12.91%	-45.30%
Gold	$1,639.80	1,814.70	-9.64%	15.37%

Here's what else to watch from the economy:

New home sales for August, due Monday from the Commerce Department. Don't expect any improvement from July's dismal sales rate of 285,000 units.

S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index for July, due Tuesday, from Standard & Poor's. Look for another year-over-year price decline of maybe 4%.

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index, due Tuesday. This is also expected to show little improvement.

Durable good orders, due Wednesday from the Commerce Department. This might offer some real cheer, according to Capital Economics, the British economic consulting firm. Defense orders are rising. So are commercial airplane orders.

Initial jobless claims, due Thursday from the Labor Department. Claims fell to 423,000 in the week ending Sept. 17. But the 4-week moving average rose to 421,000. Claims have stalled at 410,000 to 430,00 in recent weeks, likely the result of increased layoff announcements.

Second-quarter Gross Domestic Product, due Thursday from the Commerce Department. This is a revised estimate that's expected to show a small bit of improvement, from an annualized 1% to 1.3%.

Personal income and spending, due Friday from the Commerce Department. The August jobs report showed no gains in jobs. Don't expect much on the income side, either, says IHS Global Insight.

Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, due Friday. This is a final report. It may rise from August's reading of 55.7 to maybe 56.8, IHS says, but that will be down from the first reading of 57.8. Market turmoil will be the culprit.

Micron is the top earnings report

The week ahead is not heavy on earnings reports. The third quarter doesn't end until Friday, and earnings season only starts with Alcoa (AA) on after the close on Oct. 11.

Here are the week's key reports:

Monday: Egg-producer Cal-Maine Foods (CALM).

Tuesday: American Greetings (AM), circuit-board maker Jabil Circuit (JBL), payroll processor Paychex (PAYX) and drugstore chain Walgreen (WAG). The theme to watch is what the companies have to say about job expansion.

Wednesday: Discounter retailer Family Dollar Stores (FDO) and spice-maker McCormick & Co. (MKC).

Thursday: Semiconductor-maker Micron Technology (MU) and steel-maker Worthington Industries (WOR). Micron's results will be closely watched because it offers a look at the health of the personal computer business.
MARKET UPDATE

NAME		LAST	CHANGE	% CHANGE
#	DOW	10,771.48	+37.65	+0.35

#	NASDAQ	2,483.23	0.00	0.00

#	S&P	1,136.43	0.00	0.00

#	Russell 2000	652.43	0.00	0.00

#	10 Yr Note	102.66	0.00	0.00

NAME	LAST	CHANGE	% CHANGE
#	Nikkei	8,374.13	-186.13	-2.17

#	FTSE 100	5,118.80	+51.99	+1.03

#	DAX	5,164.21	-269.59	-4.96

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