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The market rebounded after an early session decline due to a higher-than-expected unemployment number. Cramer attributed the gains to an end in redemption-covering stock sales by hedge funds.
Investors in underperforming funds want their money back, Cramer said, so managers have been selling their holdings to raise the necessary money. Hedge funds usually have five days to return money, and “that finished today.”
Apache [APA
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], Transocean [RIG
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], Mastercard [MA
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], Potash [POT
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], Union Pacific [UNP
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] – “You saw all these names bottom today,” Cramer said, “because…the selling’s done to return the money.”
But that “doesn’t mean that we aren’t fundamentally in trouble,” Cramer said. “There are fundamental problems with everyone of those stocks,” so this isn’t a reason to buy. He just wanted to offer a reason to the market action Friday.
Cramer called the downgrades of Merrill Lynch [MER
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] and American International Group [AIG
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] “two of the worst calls that I’ve seen in a long time.” He has little doubt that there are more write-offs coming from Merrill, but the company raised capital enough for his to think it’s a buy at $22 or $23, though he said that probably won’t happen. And AIG, in addition to Lehman Brothers [LEH
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], is usually a stock that declines ahead of others when there’s bad new, like today’s unemployment. But neither stock is down.
In fact, and admittedly Cramer was going out on a limb here, he named Lehman his “screaming buy” for the last couple of hours of Friday trading. It “can’t get any worse there,” he said. “If that Dick Fuld does not do something this weekend, he name is mud.”
Cramer also reiterated his warning against trading hurricanes. He also believes that natural gas, which has fallen much further and faster than oil, is trying to decouple from it. “Nat gas is trying to put in a bottom,” he said, at about $6 or $7. Anadarko Petroleum [APC
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] is buying back stock – something he always likes – and Apache is “right.”
Lastly, Cramer talked up retail. Sears Holdings [SHLD
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] is down after a critical article in The Wall Street Journal, but not as much as Cramer thinks it should be. “That tells me it’s OK.” But look at Home Depot [HD
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], Phillips-Van Heusen [PVH
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].
“Why aren’t these down if retail’s so bad?” Cramer asked.
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