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The hedge-fund consultant business is finished, Cramer said during Thursday’s Stop Trading!, as another 14 people were charged with insider trading in a growing probe that started with the arrest of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, among others.
This morning’s news signaled the end of at least part of the hedge-fund business model, Cramer said. Consultants often maintained relationships with company executives outside the C-suite in order to glean information without breaking SEC insider-trading rules. But Cramer doubted that company CEOs would let their employees talk to these consultants now, given the new charges.
“This game’s over,” Cramer said.
In other market news, Goldman Sachs [GS
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Lastly, Motorola’s [MOT
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“We don’t want buyback,” Cramer said. “We want growth.”
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