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Buy:

Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APD)

BAIDU.COM, INC. (BIDU)

China Mobile Limited (CHL)

Focus Media Holding Ltd (FMCN)

Corning Inc (GLW)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS)

Hudson City Bancorp Inc (HCBK)

PetroChina Co Ltd (PTR)

Transocean Inc (RIG)

Siemens AG (SI)

Ultra Petroleum Corp (UPL)
Sell:

American International Group, Inc (AIG)

AXA (AXA)

Countrywide Financial Corp (CFC)

Capital One Financial Corp(COF)

Legg Mason Inc(LM)

Orion Energy Systems(OESX)

Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

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On Tuesday's show, Cramer started by talking about the acquisition of Commerce Bank (CBH) by TD Bank, and how he feels that Canadian banks will buy more US regional banks because of the strength of the Canadian dollar. Cramer listed 9 other banks that he thinks could be takeover targets; National City (NCC), New York Community Bank (NYB), Comerica (CMA), KeyCorp (KEY), Hudson City Bank (HCBK), M&T Bank (MTB), BB&T (BBT), Fifth Third Bank (FITB), Capital One (COF)
CVS Caremark (CVS): Cramer thinks it was unfairly punished by Walgreen's (WAG) bad quarterly report yesterday. Cramer thinks that CVS will be able to profit for the same reason that Walgreen's had problems because of their merger with Caremark. CVS is now "best of breed" in the pharmacy sector.
Cramer then took a phone call about Wal-Mart (WMT) which he thinks is not a big factor in this sector.
After the lightning round, Cramer was looking for more overlooked IPOs. Today's pick was comScore (SCOR). This stock is the Nielsen of the web and gives companies data to help them advertise better. They are in the early stages of growth.
CEO of Perry Ellis (PERY) was on the show. Cramer thinks the stock is not for him, and asked the CEO some tough questions.
In the last segment, Cramer talked about Baidu.com (BIDU), which he said is up 136% since he recommended the stock. He "commands you" to take your cost basis out of the market to lock in profits.

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Bullish Calls:
Aecom Technology (NYSE: ACM - News): 'This may be the cheapest of the infrastructure plays.'Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC - News): ' ... at $61, should have been bought today... buy, buy, buy! Infrastructure rocks, as does agriculture!'Wachovia (NYSE: WB - News): 'They just raised the dividend, and they said that the bad loans are under control.'Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB - News): 'SLB, to me, is the cheapest. It went down today, along with the whole group. I feel like you can trade up to quality... you can trade up to SLB.'Transocean (NYSE: RIG - News)Tata Motors (NYSE: TTM - News): 'I think, at $15, TTM makes a huge amount of sense.'E*Trade Financial (NasdaqGS: ETFC - News): 'I would buy some here, and let it come down a bit ... There are many companies that have really bad exposure to this mortgage stuff. ETFC is not one of them.'American Capital Strategies (NasdaqGS: ACAS - News): 'I think that this company is a survivor... a lot of people have tried to call it out a lot of times. They're not going to be successful.'Hudson City Bancorp (NasdaqGS: HCBK - News): 'I think we're in dangerous territory with FSLR. Don't buy, don't buy.'Level 3 Communications (NasdaqGS: LVLT - News): 'I like LVLT for one reason... because I believe there's going to be a bandwidth shortage ... I am picking this as a long-term speculation and, when we run out of bandwidth, I'm not backing away.'Tessera Technologies (NasdaqGS: TSRA - News): 'I thought the quarter was going to be good. I got the quarter wrong. I like the story longer term. now, in the low $30s, I would definitely buy it.'Principal Financial Group (NYSE: PFG - News): 'A very cheap stock ... I really like this stock. I was going to buy it for my charitable trust... I didn't get a chance.'LCA-Vision (NasdaqGS: LCAV - News): 'Upgraded today by Raymond James... a big buyback coming... just finished a buyback. I like it.'IBM (NYSE: IBM - News)
Neutral calls:
Dean Foods (NYSE: DF - News): 'This has become a very problematic story and I've got to tell you something... don't buy, don't buy... I don't think it's over, and the company doesn't think the pain's over too.'Banco Popular (NasdaqGS: BPOP - News)Parker Drilling (NYSE: PKD - News)Foster Wheeler (NasdaqGS: FWLT - News): 'On a day like today, up $7, sell, sell, sell... on the conference call, they made it very clear that contracts were lumpy...every time the stock runs a little, I think it's going to run into selling pressure.'First Solar (FSLS)
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Bullish calls:
Qualcomm (NasdaqGS: QCOM): 'QCOM has finally gotten it together. There are tremendous buyers of this stock right here ... Cramer says this thing is finally go into the mid-40s and then let's make a judgment.'Transocean (NYSE: RIG - News): 'Holy cow, this business is on fire. I would actually swap out of BJS and I would go into RIG... It's just much, much cheaper.'Melco PBL Entertainment (NasdaqGM: MPEL): 'Finally we got this thing bouncing. This stock has been actually a living, breathing nightmare ... Opportunity is finally knocking. I would hold onto it.'C.H. Robinson Worldwide (NasdaqGS: CHRW): 'I liked the quarter from CHRW, and I think right now, you should swap out of EXPD and go into CHRW.'Halliburton (NYSE: HAL - News): 'I have been patient. They had the spinoff of KBR and, if they don't use that to buy back in a self tender or very high price a lot of stock, then I will have to eat my hat.'Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS - News)Sears (NasdaqGS: SHLD) Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO - News): 'We recommended this stock a couple of smackers ago. It has been going up - it pulled back from $50 ... I think you've got to not only stick with it, I think you've got to buy more [back up the truck sound].'Sun Microsystems (NasdaqGS: SUNW): 'I am starting to warm up to that.'
Bearish calls:
BJ Services (NYSE: BJS - News): ' Let me tell you how hard this business has become ... I don't like BJS as much as RIG. I would actually swap out of BJS and I would go into RIG... It's just much, much cheaper.'Hudson City Bancorp (NasdaqGS: HCBK): 'We want to get behind it, because it is the best lender in the Northeast. We can't do it until we see cuts. Don't buy, don't buy. But I am warming up to it.'Expeditors International of Washington (NasdaqGS: EXPD): ' You know, I didn't like that quarter. I liked the quarter from CHRW, and I think right now, you should swap out of EXPD and go into CHRW.'NutriSystem (NasdaqGS: NTRI): 'I didn't like what they did. They did first the lowball a couple of weeks ago...Then today they surprised to the upside on the lowball, taking the stock up 8 points in the after hours. I want to ring the register. I've had enough with NTRI. I'm about the money, and I've had enough of these guys.'Fortress (NYSE: FIG - News)Teva Pharmaceutical (NasdaqGS: TEVA): 'No. I don't like the generics.'Novastar (NYSE: NFI - News): 'No, not a chance. Not a chance my friend. I'm staying away from that group.'
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Outsourcing Winners: Accenture (NYSE: ACN - News), Electronic Data Systems (NYSE: EDS - News), Infosys Technologies (NasdaqGS: INFY) and Wipro (NYSE: WIT - News)
Sporting a referee's uniform, Cramer placed four of the best outsourcing consulting firms in a competition to determine which is the best investment. In the right corner were U.S. companies ACN and EDS with a combined annual revenue of $39.5 billion, and in the left corner were Indian challengers INFY and WIT with a total yearly revenue of $5.6 billion. Putting the politics of outsourcing aside, Cramer says that these companies have a "huge market" since many new businesses are in need of original strategies. On the American team, Cramer thinks that ACN is best of breed because it has a top notch business, "record utilization levels" and strong growth to 12.9% from the 6.4% in the previous quarter. On the Indian team, Cramer likes Infosys, because it has "some baked-in underpromise, overdeliver Indian-style potential," has 10,000 hires completing training, and is getting its China business moving; Cramer calls this "a recipe for better-than-expected numbers." He likes Infosys' low 12% attrition rate, which is an important metric for an outsourcing firm. Wipro's attrition rate is higher, but he would still pay attention to its earnings on Wednesday. While Cramer prefers the Indian team for their "overall prospects," his favorite two companies are Accenture for its consulting business and Infosys for its growth.
Related: Hans E. Wagner expects continued growth for Accenture.
CEO Interview: Ronald Hermance Hudson City Bancorp (NasdaqGS: HCBK)
Cramer asked Ronald Hermance how his comany is thriving in spite of negativity surrounding banking. "Quite candidly, our model sets us apart," Hermance responded. "The reason we've outlasted in most credit cycles is that we're retaining all our mortgages and not selling them to the secondary market." The result has been solid credit quality in the third quarter, and he added that HCBK has not had a net charge off in seven years. Impressed by this statement, Cramer added that Hudson City is "basically only lending to people that don't need a loan but are taking one out for a mortgage deduction." He recommnended the stock to investors who want a no-risk banking play.
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