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Tuesday’s market action was a classic faded opening, Cramer said during Stop Trading!.
Falling oil prices drove up the Dow Jones Industrial Average nearly 250 points only to give back those gains later in the day.
“Everybody who didn’t like the market last week got the chance to sell,” Cramer said.
But the Mad Money host is “far less concerned” about most areas of the sell-off than he is about watching the housing and banking indexes. He’s not disregarding the potential for the sell-off to be “pronounced,” with the market so thin and exchange-traded-fund selling further driving down stocks, but as long as those two sectors do well he’s willing to live with the market’s volatility.
“I think these are the two indices,” Cramer said of housing and banking, “that are going to lead us out of this jam.”
Downward pressure in commodities is hurting S&P 500 stocks that are “just big enough” to take the index “down a little bit.” The S&P’s biggest losers Tuesday are mostly oil or coal related.
But their dip, and the S&P’s, are to be expected. Commodity-related stocks have had a nice run, so “when you get them down so dramatically,” Cramer said, “they can do damage.”
“If you have U.S. Steel [X
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The way some oil and gas stocks have been declining, you’d think the price per barrel of oil was headed to $50, Cramer said, and natural gas going as low at $3. But that’s not going to happen.
“I think we’re going to reach a floor,” he said.
His advice is to start buying the companies with good buybacks and cash reserves whose stocks are down $6-$8 – or more. Anadarko Petroleum [APC
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Cheaper prices at the pump may be the reason Macy’s [M
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Lastly, a group that criticized HerbaLife’s [HLF
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“They have a lot of good things to say,” Cramer said.
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