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Coming back from a 90 point loss after a much worse than expected loss from Freddie Mac, the Dow rebounded as U.S. stocks hit a six-week high. The trend of health & personal care stocks doing well in this market continues.
AUGUST 6TH RECAP
- Better Energy Play: Futures or Equities?
- Forget Freddie, The Bottom May Be In
- Back To School Bounce For Retailers?
- Commodity-Related Stocks Starting To Show Cracks
- What The Charts Are Saying About Stocks
- Pops & Drops: News Corp, CarMax & The Mile High Club
- The Good And Bad of Dell
- Schein-ing Through A Rough Economy
- Web Extra: The Trade On Blackstone & Whole Foods
- Your First Move For Thursday August 7th
Guy Adami thinks the bottom is in for the short term. "They wanted to sell financials today. They wanted to sell Merill Lynch, and they didn't do it." said Adami.
Jeff Macke believes Freddie Mac gave lots of excuses for the market to sell financials, but when asked if he was a bull responded "Ehh, not really".
Karen Finerman cautions that there is still a lot of market noise going on.
Joe Terranova liked what we saw today in the consumer discretionary sector, materials, and highlighted the move upward for Research In Motion [RIMM
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CISCO LEADING THE TECH CHARGE
The tech sector rose with Cisco [CSCO
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] leading the way. A top UBS analyst expects a massive Microsoft share buyback could be completed soon.
Finerman wouldn't buy Microsoft [MSFT
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] based upon expectation of a buyback as she feels the buyback would close the door on a Yahoo deal, and believes that Microsoft isn't ready to do that yet.
Macke saw some nice news in tech today, but it wasn't screaming higher. He attributes the move as being more technically based and bounce backs.
Adami is not bullish on Cisco here.
Terranova loves technology right now. He believes tech doesn't have the contagion that financials have.
During a discussion on Sybase [SY
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OIL FALLS 20% FROM HIGH
As oil entered bear market territory, Terranova revealed that he had no current positions in oil, but was instead focused on undervalued oil affected equities. He is long on Valero [VLO
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], and long on a transport. The integrated names are attractive to him. He also recommended looking at possible plays in Petrobras [PBR
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], Conoco Phillips [COP
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Adami feels that Exxon Mobil [XOM
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Finerman believes Sunoco came out with good earnings and was up today, which should bode well for Exxon Mobil. However, she's not more inclined to go long on the integrated oil names, but prefers some of the refiners.
Macke says "Yuck to the whole group!" and added that Exxon Mobil's chart looks like "grim death".
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FREDDIE MAC PLUNGES
With worse than expected earnings and a not so reassuring interview with the company's CEO Dick Syron, what's there to make of Freddie Mac [FRE
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Finerman doesn't understand the plan at Freddie.
Macke recommended that Karen Finerman could be the CEO, saying that Dick Syron doesn't know the plan either.
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NASDAQ HELPS LIFT THE NASDAQ
The NASDAQ exchange showed some signs of life today led by NASDAQ OMX [NDAQ
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Adami likes the valuation on NASDAQ compared to the other exchanges. However, he said he cannot recommend buying the stock.
Terranova prefers to be long in the CME Group [CME
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SONY BETS ON MUSIC
Sony [SNE
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Macke found a couple of positives to say on the acquisition. He thinks maybe it makes sense for Sony, and maybe they got a value.
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On Aug 6, 2008, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC’s Fast Money were owned by the Fast Money traders; Macke Owns (MSFT) (IMAX) (COST) (WMT), Macke Is Short (TM), Finerman's Firm Is Short (IYR) (IJR) (SPY) (MDY) (IWM),Finerman's Firm Owns (ANF) Call Spread, Finerman's Firm And Finerman Own (C) Leap (FLS), Finerman Owns (GS), Finerman's Firm Owns (MSFT) (SUN) (TSO) (VLO), Finerman's Firm Is Short (XLF) (BBT) (COF), Adami Owns (AGU) (C) (BTU) (GS) (INTC) (MSFT) (NUE), Terranova Owns (YHOO) (CME) (SA) (VLO) (KOL) (RIMM) (IYT) (GOOG) (SU) (FCX) (INTC) (XLF) (BNI), Terranova Is Chief Alternatives Strategist Of Phoenix Investment Partners, Ltd., Terranova Is Co-Portfolio Manager Of The Phoenix Diversifier PHOLIO Phoenix Investment Partners Owns More Than 1% Of (ABD) (ARE) (BRE) (CNTY) (CLB) (OFC) (DLR) (ESS) (EXR) (FL) (IAT) (IGE) (LNET) (MAC) (OIIM) (PSPT) (DBC) (DBV) (SLB) (SKT) (BLV), Phoenix Diversifier PHOLIO Owns (IGE) (DBC) (DBV), WIDGET EXTRA: Terranova's Firm Owns (X), Brad Hintz Owns (MS) (CME) (ETFC) (RJ) (AMTD), Accounts Over Which Bernstein And/Or Affiliates Exercise Investment Discretion Own More Than 1% Of (GS), (LEH), (MER), (MS) (GS), (LEH), (MER), (MS) Are Or In Past 12 Months Were Non-Investment Banking Clients (Securities Related Services) Of Bernstein, Which Received Compensation, An Affiliate Of Bernstein Received Compensation For Non-Investment Banking-Securities Related Services From (GS), (LEH), (MER), (MS)
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