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
- 4 Enemies of Bull Markets
- Experiencing Technical Difficulty?
- The Importance of Good Breadth
- How Big Money Rules the Markets
- Follow the Leader
- Mad Mail: Chesapeake Energy Is Hiring?
- Lightning Round: Royal Dutch Shell, Bank of America, RF Micro Devices and More
- Lightning Round OT: Harley-Davidson, Heartland Payment and More
- Cramer’s Christmas List
- Cramer: This Stock Offers ‘Plenty of Upside’
MAD MONEY FEATURES
PODCASTSWatch the Lightning Round whenever and wherever you want.
OFFICIAL MAD MONEY WIDGETGrab this all-in-one application and get recaps of the show sent right to your desktop or blog.
CRAMERS SOUNDBOARDAdmit it: You've always wanted to hit the "They
know nothing!" button. Here’s your chance.
CHECK OUT OUR PHOTOSCheck out Cramer on set, back to school, behind the scenes and more.
SHOP FOR MAD MERCHANDISEBuy Cramer books, bobbleheads and other Mad Money merchandise.
RING TONESPick up the phone! It's Cramer! New Mad Money sounds for your cell phone.
TEXT MESSAGE ALERTMad Money's mobile. Get show highlights sent to your phone.
Text Size 
Buy the consumer staples, Cramer told viewers Monday. It’s the one group in which the market hasn’t completely lost faith.
Companies like Coca-Cola [KO
Loading...
()
], Pepsi [PEP
Loading...
()
] and Colgate [PEP
Loading...
()
] are operating with strong balance sheets when many other firms are not. Financing isn’t a problem for the consumer-staples names because they’ve got the cash on hand. Plus, margins are on the rise now that raw costs have come down. So, too, have advertising costs and gas prices, which make it cheaper to get products to market. The situation looks so positive that even Campbell’s [PEP
Loading...
()
], one of Cramer’s least favorite names in the sector, reported a decent quarter Monday morning.
Money managers are pouring into consumer staples because there’s nowhere else to go – except for oil and gold, that is. Forget about all but a select few of the financials right now, namely Visa [V
Loading...
()
], Mastercard [MA
Loading...
()
], Goldman Sachs [GS
Loading...
()
] and Morgan Stanley [MS
Loading...
()
]. Unemployment and lack of credit are hurting the early-cycle stocks. Transports are in trouble. So is retail. The list is virtually endless: real estate investment trusts, technology, media, health care, even the staid utilities – they’re all hurting.
So Cramer urged viewers to consider the consumer stables. As fund managers sell their other holdings, they’ll most likely start buying these stocks – and that will push the group higher.
Cramer’s charitable trust owns Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Pepsico.
Questions for Cramer?
Questions, comments, suggestions for the Mad Money website?
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes