November 2008


Fast Money Recaps26 Nov 2008 09:50 am

Fast Money Stock Picks - November 25, 2008 - Washington Spending

Macke:
SPX - S&P - Short with a stop above 860
SPY - SPDR Trust - Short with a tight stop - Final Trade

Adami:
HD - Home Depot - Buy - Final Trade

Finerman:
XRT - SPDR S&P Retail - Buy if Wednesday is a big down day - Final Trade

UYG - ProShares Ultra Financials - Buy - Final Trade

Whitney Tilson, T2 Partners founder:
BRK.A - Berkshire Hathaway - Buy, it’s the cheapest we have ever seen it

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
GOOG - Google (9%) - Macke: I’m skeptical
FLR - Fluor Corp (4%) - Finerman: I think you’ve got to love engineering firms in the President-elect Obama environment
UAUA - UAL Corp (24%) - Altered its deal with its largest credit card processor, suspending a requirement to maintain addition cash reserves if its balance falls below $2.5 billion
SLM - Sallie Mae (22%) - Fed revealed its newest bailout plan
DLTR - Dollar Tree (9%) - 3Q profits beat estimates and the company raised its 2009 guidance
GGP - General Growth Properties (36%) - Billionaire investor Bill Ackman bought a 20% stake in the company
ETFC - E*Trade Financial (50%) - Said it’s optimistic it will receive funds from TARP
CTRN - Citi Trends (34%) - Reported a 3Q loss that was less than analysts expected

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
RIMM - Research In Motion (8%) - Najarian: It seems like investors buy this stock at $40 and get out around $45
GM - General Motors (1%) - Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan analysts both said the company must cut debt and labor costs in order to survive
SBUX - Starbucks (2%) - Said it expects sales to continue to be negative through the end of the year
LM - Legg Mason (2%) - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. analyst Matt Snowling cut his rating from ‘Market Perform’ to ‘Underperform’ and cut its price target from $18 to $11

Fast Money Recaps24 Nov 2008 11:52 pm

Fast Money Stock Picks - November 24, 2008 - Lack of Confidence

Finerman:
DSX - Diana Shipping - Final Trade part 1
GNK - Genco Shipping - Final Trade part 2

Seymour:
VIP - Vimpel-Comm - Buy - Final Trade

Terranova:
ABT - Abbott Labs - Worth a look
GIS - General Mills - Worth a look
BNI - Burlington Northern - Worth a look
FXB - CurrencyShares British Pound ETF - Buy - Final Trade

Carter Worth:
CPB - Campbell’s Soup - Buy
BMY - Bristol Myers - Buy

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
AAPL - Apple (12%) - Terranova: I like it with a stop at $83
NYT - New York Times (24%) - Citigroup raised it from ’sell’ to ‘hold’
DNA - Genentech (5%) - Finerman: I’m long
BAC - Bank of America (27%) - The entire banking sector closed higher after Washington agreed to bail out Citigroup
XRX - Xerox (17%) - 2009 profit forecast beat estimates
CME - CME Group (14%) - Reaction to Citigroup bailout
HOTT - Hot Topic (27%) - Should benefit over the next few months because of “Twilight”
ALO - Alpharma (8%) - King Pharmaceuticals agreed to buy it for $37 a share

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
GOOG - Google (2%) - Terranova: I think it could be a bottom
CPB - Campbell Soup (7%) - Sales missed estimates and full year profits may be hurt
ETFC - E*Trade Financial (2%) - Investor doubt over its ability to secure financing from the TARP fund

Fast Money Recaps23 Nov 2008 09:13 pm

Fast Money Stock Picks - November 21, 2008 - Obama’s Treasury Secretary Announced

Adami:
GPS - The Gap - Looks OK
TGT - Target - Looks OK long term
BRCM - Broadcom - A raging buy

Finerman:
NVDA - Nvidia - Looks cheap
CSCO - Cisco - Buy
MSFT - Microsoft - Buy
DELL - Dell - Buy

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
HPQ - Hewlett-Packard (13%) - Adami: This stock is still cheap
GYMB - Gymboree (2%) - Beat earnings estimates for the third quarter

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
JPM - JP Morgan (34%) - Adami: It wasn’t a good week to be a bank
M - Macy’s (23%) - Its debt started trading like a junk bond
USG - USG Corp (23%) - Finerman: It’s been a bad week for Buffett
NYT - New York Times (27%) - Announced a 74% cut in its dividend as revenue continues to decline

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