Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round, 3/28/08: Procter Is No Gamble

Stocks discussed in the lightning round session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV program, Friday March 28. Click on a stock ticker for more analysis:
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Jim Cramer's Mad Money In-Depth, 3/28/08: Low Hopes for Earnings

Stocks discussed in the in-depth session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV program,Friday March 28. Click on a stock ticker for more analysis.
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Stocks discussed in the in-depth session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV program,Friday March 28. Click on a stock ticker for more analysis. 2008-03-31T06:04:32-04:00

Barnes & Noble’s New How-To Site Quamut Already Being Link Spammed

read more Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley submits:

Barnes & Noble (BKS) officially launched how-to site Quamut this week, and it’s already attracting link spammers.

The main service offers online guides that cover more than 1,000 topics written by experts in each field. Guides include illustrations and pictures and can be purchased as PDF’s or laminated how-to sheets. It’s a reasonable offering; nothing ground breaking but clean, thorough, and usable.

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Barnes & Noble (BKS) officially launched how-to site Quamut this week, and it’s already attracting link spammers.

The main service offers online guides that cover more than 1,000 topics written by experts in each field. Guides include illustrations and pictures and can be purchased as PDF’s or laminated how-to sheets. It’s a reasonable offering; nothing ground breaking but clean, thorough, and usable.

2008-03-31T06:00:34-04:00

SPY: The Case for a Bottom Being in Place

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Dobromir Stoyanov submits:

After hitting a low at $126.07 on March 17, SPY has bounced off strongly off those lows. Coincidentally the March lows for the ETF were pretty close to the January 22nd lows at $126.
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After hitting a low at $126.07 on March 17, SPY has bounced off strongly off those lows. Coincidentally the March lows for the ETF were pretty close to the January 22nd lows at $126. 2008-03-31T05:56:48-04:00

PSS World Medical CEO Speaks About His Company

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On March 31, The Wall Street Transcript interviewed David A. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of PSS World Medical, Inc. (PSSI). Key excerpts follow:
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On March 31, The Wall Street Transcript interviewed David A. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of PSS World Medical, Inc. (PSSI). Key excerpts follow: 2008-03-31T05:55:49-04:00

Decline Of U.S. Newspapers Accelerating

read more Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley submits:

Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950, the year they started tracking annual revenue.

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Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006, the biggest drop in revenue since 1950, the year they started tracking annual revenue.

2008-03-31T05:55:20-04:00

A Look at Sector Performance over the Last Month

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Michael Bommarito submits:

The following chart represents the total percent change for each of the S&P Select Sector ETFs for the past session, week, and month.
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The following chart represents the total percent change for each of the S&P Select Sector ETFs for the past session, week, and month. 2008-03-31T05:50:50-04:00

Earnings Preview: Two Companies Could Surprise

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Zacks.com submits:

April can be a volatile month for weather and I expect it also to be volatile for the equity markets. The major indexes are in a broad trading range and daily direction is being influenced by the news du jour. Given the ongoing credit crunch, sputtering economy and probable poor first-quarter earnings reports from financial companies, the most logical prediction is that investors are in for more of the same in terms of stock price movement.
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April can be a volatile month for weather and I expect it also to be volatile for the equity markets. The major indexes are in a broad trading range and daily direction is being influenced by the news du jour. Given the ongoing credit crunch, sputtering economy and probable poor first-quarter earnings reports from financial companies, the most logical prediction is that investors are in for more of the same in terms of stock price movement. 2008-03-31T05:48:40-04:00

Asia's Shift Away from the US Dollar; Japan the Final Shoe to Drop

read more Darrel Whitten

Fed Fund futures are discounting a further rate cut of some 50bps on April 30, which would take the FF rate to 1.75%, or only 75bps from the historical low of 1.00% set in 2003 amidst the deflation scare.
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Fed Fund futures are discounting a further rate cut of some 50bps on April 30, which would take the FF rate to 1.75%, or only 75bps from the historical low of 1.00% set in 2003 amidst the deflation scare. 2008-03-31T05:48:11-04:00

Don't Regulate, Rationalize

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Steve Waldman submits:

I know it's mostly bull, that hippie management bromide that "in Chinese, the word for crisis is danger plus opportunity!" I don't care. We're gonna go with it here. I see the current financial crisis as dangerous, but also a tremendous opportunity to fix a lot of things that have been broken for a very long time.

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I know it's mostly bull, that hippie management bromide that "in Chinese, the word for crisis is danger plus opportunity!" I don't care. We're gonna go with it here. I see the current financial crisis as dangerous, but also a tremendous opportunity to fix a lot of things that have been broken for a very long time.

2008-03-31T05:47:27-04:00

Looking for Solid Returns from Big Oil

read more Miranda Marquit

Miranda Marquit submits:

Many Big Oil companies still have solid fundamentals.

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