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Oct.26
7:46 PM ET
Friday, 26 Oct 2007
Stop Trading!: Buy...Homebuilders?
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Cramer was amazed on Friday’s Stop Trading! that Countrywide Financial [CFC
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With the gyrations in the housing and financials, including massive short squeezes that are sending the stocks higher ahead of next week’s Fed meeting, Cramer said he would consider “taking a shot” at volatile homebuilders like Hovnanian [HOV
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]. But he wouldn’t stay with any of them for “more than a couple of days.”
Cramer also voiced support for embattled Merrill Lynch [MER Loading... ()
] chief Stanley O’Neil, who is rumored to be out the door at the brokerage house by the weekend. “This is his first real screw-up,” Cramer said of O’Neil, referring to Merrill’s massive $8 billion write-down earlier this week. “I’m pulling for him.” Questions for Cramer?
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