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General Electric CFO Has Interesting Things to Say

Another topic I have long been a huge proponent even when it was trading at the highs, aarrr, stuck near the highs...I storngly feel is should be broken up. Anyone have thoughts on this? why keep it together??

General Electric CFO Has Interesting Things to Say

Since this sell off is "unwarranted" and "GE Cap is not a timebomb."

Are GE Insiders buying right now??? Anyone know?

Cramer's Mad Money - 10 Signs of Hope (3/3/09)

What does this mean??

9. Many companies are not only not cutting their dividends, but are raising them. There is a significant number of stocks with 4-5% yields.

They're cutting and raising them I guess. C cut to zero then raised back to 1 cent,

Cramer's Mad Money - 10 Signs of Hope (3/3/09)

Great a Cramer lovefest...I think we could focus our energy on more productive targets...I watched Geithner speak....oh, man we are in for a tough road ahead. That guy looked like a deer in headlights, repeating the same thing over and over. "Inherited....inherite... increase on top 5%...inherited...will help 95%...inherited...inhe...

How is the top 5% going to make up $1.7 trillion dollars over the next 10 years???

Cramer's All-Time Favorite Stock Hits All-Time Low

Next article should be a recap on his "real all time favorite" SHLD -- follow that slide.."My Good Buddy Eddie Lampert"....

Cramer's Stop Trading - Peabody Is in Freefall (3/2/09)

Welcome to the boards, Alex, with a poignant observation of Mr Cramer's myopic focus on rating, but he does have a good point about your president (or I like to call him Carter Redux.)

Three Reasons Why Investors Should Worry About Bank Nationalization

Well inarticulated article. I think you are speaking about the auto industry.

It's the mark to market accounting that is the biggest problem. A house in Las Vegas purchased for $1 million three years ago may be worth $500K now (in true market value) not ZERO. But because they have this write down, they will not make the loan for the $500K. Vicious cycle...

Cramer's Lightning Round - Transports Are on Life Support (2/25/09)

Ok, let's mark it for future reference. After hyping for several years, Cramer is saying sell FWLT at 13.83. Let's watch this now.

I am saying buy it here.

The winner gets a show on CNBC. If I win, I want one on Bloomberg.

Cramer's Stop Trading! Coke's Good Quarter and Pepsi's Blowaway Quarter (2/24/09)

Nardelli's been a failure everywhere he has been.

WHY IS MY MONEY GOING TO A PRIVATE COMPANY WHICH IS RUN BY A LOSER? LET CHRYSLER FAIL! That will help the other two...

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Your joking, right? Psychology is too much of the market. Just look at the spike when Bernanke spoke earlier this week and compare that to when Dodd and Obama used words like catastophy.

Bubbles inflate prices on the upside just as much as over selling to the down side.


On Feb 25 08:50 AM Big-P wrote:

> Let's get real people. The "market" doesn't trade off nonsense spewed
> by government "leaders" it trades up or down based on money flow
> from people like me.
>
> -Big-P

Foster Wheeler: A Few Problems, Lots of Misinformation

Excellent points and I completely agree and bought more FWLT yesterday because I stongly believe this is a great mid to long term investment.

I think another critical point is the fact they have over $1 billion in cash, after the debt - $9.80 per share. A forward PE of 4.

This is a great opportunity to buy a very well managed company and triple your money in 18-24 months.

12 Reasons I'm Still Buying Oil

Rolex:
In 2000 when oil was below $20. I started buying individual oil stocks starting with majors, then big indies, then others. Over the next 7 plus years, as oil went to $140s, I had big gains. At $140 I kept my long positions but hedged by shorting all. I since covered those shorts. I still have the long that still have gains of over 100 percent. This is a contratian strategy.

Everyone else in this string makes great points.

My point, Rolex, buy now. What's wrong with that strategy?

Your Oil Stocks Aren't Coming Back

You better be careful what you bet, I'll take it, 2-3 years on XOM. It is not too far from its highs buddy.

I'll have the thin crust, please.


> You wanna take the other side of my point and say that your oil stocks
> will make new highs over the next 2 or 3 years?
>
> go for it.
>
> If you're right, I'll take everyone out for pizza (gladly, cause
> i will be trading the rallies with you).

8 Possible Targets for Exxon's Cash

These are all great ideas, but does anyone really believe that the Pelosi Administration, which was calling, uhmm pandering, for windfall profits taxes on big, evil oil companies, will not put the kibosh on any merger in the oil patch???

Unfortunately, she has her tentacles in the SEC, DOJ, DOD and every regulating body that must approve such mergers.

And hopefully, we will only have to wait two years before we see free markets and good business sense return.

Quick Logic for Buying Engineering & Construction, Energy Services ETFs

Excellent points, however, I think there is one more to add. As an optimistic contrarian investor, there are several factors here at home to consider.

We panic with $140 oil and have a myopic view on alternative energy, but when it sinks back under $40 that focus is low priority again. This last cycle, I think we still feel the sting, and realize $140 is just down the road - accepted as the new reality.

If government plans come to fruition, we are looking at a major increase in national exploration and production, drilling onshore/offshore, the other 99 percent of the North Slope, major increase in storage capacity (double the size of NSR), deep water, oil sands, etc. This approach solves two major issues – cutting some dependence on foreign oil and creating massive amounts of jobs (Permanent Jobs.)

It's not a matter of if, but when...The naysayers predict that we've explored and tapped all the oil we have domestically, but don’t tell that to the new reserves in the Dakotas and the rest of the untapped 85% near shore.

Looking at balance sheets and other fundamentals there are individual stocks that look good rather than playing ETFs.

Mid to long term investments - JEC, KBR, FLR, FWLT, NOV will all benefit as oil prices increase, but why not make money in the mean time. They build bridges, hospitals, school, roads, etc. They have excellent balance sheets, are well managed companies, tons of cash and very low PEs and expectations.

Just some additional thoughs on this area.