FEATURED SLIDESHOW
Who Is The Worst CEO?Mad Money needed new inductees for its
Wall of Shame, so we asked viewers for
nominations.
RECENT POSTS
- Time to Buy Treasurys?
- Lightning Round: Las Vegas Sands, ADC Telecom, Satyam Computer and More
- Lightning Round OT: Knight Capital, Ebix and More
- Is Lear, Back From Bankruptcy, a Buy?
- Sanofi-Aventis Falling Off a Patent Cliff?
- Cramer: Your Thanksgiving Week Game Plan
- Cramer: Next Week Should Define Rest of ‘09
- Mad Money: Mad Mail: Buy RIM or Apple?
- Lightning Round: Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Baidu.com and More
- Lightning Round OT: Martek Biosciences, Valmont Industries and More
Text Size 
It seems like brokerage stocks getting killed everywhere. But then, GFI Group was up eight points on Friday. Apparently these stocks aren’t created equal.
Chairman and CEO Mickey Gooch said that as the middle in the market, GFIC actually benefits from all the volatility.
GFIG’s [GFIG
Loading...
()
] customers are big banks and securities houses that trade hundreds of millions of dollars at a time. And if these guys are worried about their subprime exposure, they can buy GFIC’s credit default protection. The OTC derivatives market is “incredibly deep,” Gooch said, so a lot of debt can be laid off.
“If you really think that people are worried and they need to lay off risk after the disaster that was Merrill Lynch, this is who they go to,” Cramer said. “It’s who you should go to,” too.
Questions for Cramer?
Questions, comments, suggestions for the Mad Money website?
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes