Yikes! Hedge Funds Caught With Their Pants Down
“The big mutual fund and hedge fund managers have been caught with their pants down playing total defense,” Jim Cramer said Wednesday, noting that big cash positions in defensive plays such as Clorox and Kimberly-Clarke suddenly went away.
The rotation out of defensive names, the "Mad Money" host said, came as Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the U.S. economy created more jobs than expected with 163,000 new positions added in July. Hopes that the European Central Bank will aid Spain and Italy — both its banks and bond markets alike — also seemed accelerate the rotation out of defensive stocks, Cramer added.
Considering these few bullish signs of late, Cramer noted hedge fund managers are now buying shares of retailers, industrials, technology companies en masse.
When this story was published, Cramer's charitable trust owned Clorox.
—By CNBC.com's Drew Sandholm
—CNBC.com and Reuters contributed to this report
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