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Morgan Stanley may have reported a quarterly loss, Cramer said Wednesday, but its biggest problem was announcing earnings after Goldman Sachs [GS
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“I don't think anyone can equal Goldman Sachs at this point,” Cramer said, because the investment bank has a better book of business and no toxic real estate exposure.
That doesn’t mean Cramer is sour on Morgan Stanley [MS
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“This is a fine quarter,” Cramer said of Morgan's report, “and I don't think anyone should sell it on it.”
The homebuilders are seeing gains thanks to “some appreciation” in prices, Cramer said. KB Home [KBH
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Phillip Morris International [PM
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Lastly, Cramer said he think that technology stocks could lead the market as they once did during the dot-com boom. Product-cycle growth and not gross-domestic-product growth drives this sector, and right now the wireless Web is boosting sector bellwethers such as Apple [AAPL
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“These companies have explosive businesses,” Cramer said, “because of the long-term secular growth of mobile Internet.”
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