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Monday, October 01, 2007

CNBC's Fast Money Recap Sept. 28th

The S&P 500 is now up 7.6% on the year, and the Dow is up 11.3%.
The commodity sector had its best monthly performance in 32 years. Adami: Scared that a gold company like Newmont (NEM) is down 8% from its high, while gold is near 27 year highs. Finerman suggests that the poor stock performance is due to company specific problems unrelated to the gold market. Najarian maintains that gold is going higher, but advises keeping an eye on coal stocks. His coal plays are BHP Billiton (BHP), Consol (CNX) and Peabody (BTU).
The Chinese Stock Market: put in its best quarterly performance ever. Everyone keeps calling a top in China, but Najarian feels there's still room on the upside. He favors China Mobile (CHL), China Unicom (CHU) and Baidu (BIDU). Adami continues to advise investors to take profits in China Mobile.
Technology: 52-week highs were achieved by leading technology stocks like Research In Motion (
RIMM) and Apple (AAPL). Najarian: "the wireless run that isn't over". He also steers investors to memory plays like SanDisk (SNDK) and Micron (MU). Macke owns Intel (INTC) for PC growth and continues to hold it. He sees it going to $30, if the consumer hangs in. Adami's attention is set on Microsoft (MSFT) and he is calling for it to trade up through $32.
Solar stocks: exploded higher this week. Najarian offers Cypress Semiconductor (
CY) which owns a chunk of SunPower (SPWR).
Word on the Street: General Motors (GM) traded higher after striking a deal with the United Auto Workers. Macke: Says that it was a great deal for General Motors and the labor union took it on the chin. The deal will also benefit Ford (F). Finerman: prefers the auto suppliers and picks Lear (LEA) as the best choice.
Consumer Stocks: Warnings from Target (
TGT) and Lowe's (LOW) helped to put pressure on consumer stocks this week. Macke points out that the consumer is a mixed bag right now, and regardless of the warnings, investors should own a best of breed stock like Target. Contrarian Najarian says sell Target and buy Kohl's (KSS)
Unknowns:
The unknowns are the US economy, the housing market and the credit crunch. Najarian: picks included Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO), Manitowoc (MTW) and BHP Billiton. Adami: says Dell (DELL) is the best name. Knowing that commodities are a sure thing, he also recommends a farmer trade with Potash (POT) and Agrium (AGU). Macke: stick with stuff that has been working like McDonald's (MCD), Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and Intel. Finerman: lower risk with big multinationals that have safe balance sheets. Kraft (KFT), Estee Lauder (EL) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) come to mind.
Chartology: Louise Yamada, the highest ranked technical analyst on Wall Street from 2001-2004 was on the show. Yamada thinks the S&P 500 could go through the all-time highs, but the volume is less than impressive in her eyes. Adami: the market is setting up for a nice rally into next year. Yamada took a look at the chart of Cisco (
CSCO). She declares that CSCO is a buy right now and is poised to go much higher. Macke agreed and said that big cap tech is under owned. Lastly, Yamada analyzed the chart of Centex (CTX). She thinks that CTX can rally back to $40 and then investors should sell because ultimately, it's going to $10.
Fast Fire: Finerman recommended buying Brown Shoe (BWS). Since her call, BWS has dropped 7%. Finerman won't give up on BWS. Adami proposed buying Masco (MAS). Masco has traded down 5% since his call. Adami is more patient and says you can buy it down to $22.50. Najarian told traders to buy St. Jude (STJ). The stock has fallen 4%. Najarian won't budge on STJ.
Bulls: EchoStar (DISH). Macke nailed it and DISH is up 8% since his call. On August 17th Finerman gave out Daimler (DAI) for a buy. She was on the money and the stock was up a whopping 25% since her call. On August 18th Adami recommended getting long China Mobile. Adami hit this one out of the park. The stock is up 45% since his call. Najarian proposed solar plays with Trina Solar (TSL), Suntech Power (STP) and SunPower (SPWR). All three went up double digits since that recommendation.
Pops & Drops
Pops- eBay (EBAY) popped 22%, Amazon (AMZN) popped 35%, and Blue Nile (NILE) exploded up 56%. Macke says these are the toughest shorts on the planet. Najarian loves Apple (AAPL). Whole Foods (WFMI) traded up 27%.
Drops- Wal-Mart (WMT) fell 9%. Adami says if they can get margins higher WMT goes to $60. Merrill Lynch (MER) fell 17%.
Final Trade
Adami: Target even in light of the warnings.
Najarian: gave out Cypress Semiconductor as his solar play.
Finerman: likes Yahoo (YHOO)

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round Jan. 22

Bullish calls:
Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD - News): 'One of the known communists on Wall Street downgraded RAD last week... I reiterate - at $5.80, RAD remains one of my favorite speculations. Take that bears!'China Mobile (NYSE: CHL - News): 'If you want to go to China, and you want to do phone, you've got to do CHL. I would actually recommend you swap out of CHU and go into CHL. Even as CHL is at its 52-week high, I think that's a better buy.'Genentech (NYSE: DNA - News): 'If we want to be in pharma, we're going to be in DNA, or we're going to be in AMGN, and CELG!... 'Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN - News)Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG - News)Flir Systems (NASDAQ: FLIR - News)Nice Systems (NASDAQ: NICE - News): ' If you want to be in defense, remember, we like FLIR or NICE, because we like homeland security!'Google (NASDAQ: GOOG - News): 'I think that's one of the few techs that I want to own. My friend, Anthony Notto, at Goldman Sachs, recently raised estimates ... I think the stock will get to $600.'Melco PBL Entertainment (NASDAQ: MPEL - News): 'People are starting to doubt me on that call... We're fine. (buzzer rings)... MPEL is not as good as LVS, and not as good as WYNN, but it should be bought here.'SkyWest (NASDAQ: SKYW - News): 'You know that I'm a liker of the airlines, but let's be careful. After the close of the market, AMR announced an offering of 13 million shares. That's going to cause some pressure in the group. SKYW should trade down a dollar on that, and then you could pull the trigger and buy more, but don't overstay your welcome.'Under Armour (NYSE: UA - News): 'Some publication... had this really negative article ... If you don't know Kevin Plank, then you don't know one of the best CEOs in America. I think UA is in a major bull-market mode. I think the shorts planted that story ... I like UA and I want you to stay with it.'
Bearish calls:
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU - News): 'No. No. I'm not a fan of CHU ... I would actually recommend you swap out of CHU and go into CHL.'Flextronics International (NASDAQ: FLEX - News): 'Maybe you're shorting it, because you're not going to make any money being long that. You need to be out of the contract manufacturing ... this is a bearish group!'Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR - News): ' ... What is that, the 470th restructuring they announced today? Most of their restructuring just involves firing people... Heaven forbid they actually try to improve the company... No, we don't want to be anywhere near NKTR.'Pfizer (NYSE: PFE - News): ' ... another bear.'Force Protection (NASDAQ: FRPT - News): ' ... not for me. 'Imergent (AMEX: IIG - News): ' Electronic services to small businesses... to me, it's the definition of tech (bear sound)... No! This is a stock that is too darn hard. Sell, sell, sell!'
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