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Industrial Orders Dry Up in Europe

Can't imagine what is holding CAT above $31 ?
Stock should be $25..Bought and held at that price.
CAT's reports keep getting worse and worse..Not even less worse as this ridiculous market loves to allude to. Can't imagine CAT being able to keep the dividend at current levels either.CAT is facing a real ugly world out there !

Cramer's Stop Trading! Caterpillar's Numbers Are Devastating (6/18/09)

The cramer sheeple get whacked again...What else is new ?
It's been amazing that CAT's price has held up as long as it did.
Last quarter's numbers were horrendous. The previous quarter's numbers were equally as bad. The balance sheet is quite bad.
Next, the dividend will have to go..
Yet, useless/cramer kept screaming, buy, buy, buy ..Ooops !
Better for his sheeple had he screamed "bye, bye, bye" ..
Why sheeple follow the dud (not dude), is no small wonder.
The market makes it so very easy to lose your money. Why look to cramer to expedite your losses ? I don't get it .
As for CAT, when the stock falls into the $25 area, in my opinion, that price offers a nice long term buy. Assuming the world doesn't collapse.

Caterpillar: Does It Deserve the Goldman Downgrade?

The Goldman downgrade to "sell" was truly a jaw-dropper. Why not a downgrade to "hold" ? Preposterous tripe from the firm that is now the "gold standard" for missed calls, misguided investments and securitizations that buried the globe .... Goldman's plunge from $250 to $70 speaks volumes about this has-been firm and the "geniuses" who pontificate there.Not exactly the "best + brightest" conceit Goldman foistered on the investment world..This "emperor has no clothes" !
Judging by the pronounced thievery on Wall Street, one may only assume that the absurd downgrade to "sell" served the Goldman agenda somehow, ie; shorting, put buying, whatever the underhanded
agenda is..Unless there is going to be a run on plastic shovels and toy trucks, I can't figure out how the world's make-work infrastructure build-outs can exist without the great CAT ..Duh !!
I have owned CAT countless times for the past 10 years or so. I have seen the stock downgraded numerous times, only to rise to the top time
and again. Throw in the fact that the clown Cramer is also down on CAT and that's a sure indication that CAT is a winner !
Goldman threw a hurt into this stock temporarily. Just an unfortunate annoyance, albeit a costly one ..Goldman is so over..But, CAT will always be primo !!

Time to Start Buying Blue Chip Stocks?

All this is nonsense..The old rules are dead and gone forever,,,
" Buy and Hold" is now "Bye and Fold"
Thank you hedge funds, investment banks and brokers, Hank Paulson,
Labor, Management, all greed driven miscreants.
If you must invest, or shall we say, bet a stock, as the market is nothing more than a short term gamble, with the odds stacked way against the average investor. Follow the Money, Hedge funds still rule, unwind and reposition constantly and very quickly. If a stock happens to be in a sector that the funds are buying, take your profits and leave. Good luck smiled on you ..The market is gambling and a longer and longer shot at that !