Fast Money Stock Picks – March 19, 2008 – Financials and Commodities

Adami:
POT – Potash – Buy the dip
MON – Monsanto – Buy the dip
MS – Morgan Stanley – Buy
V – Visa – Sell
MS – MasterCard – Sell
SBUX – Starbucks – Buy with a stop out below $16.77 – “Final Trade”
JNPR – Juniper – Buy with a stop out at $24

Seymour:
POT – Potash – Worried
MON – Monsanto – Worried
TS – Tenaris – Buy
EEM – iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index – Buy – “Final Trade”

Najarian:
MER – Merrill Lynch – Sell
SBUX – Starbucks – No need to be long
GS – Goldman Sachs – Buy
MS – Morgan Stanley – Buy
IDCC – InterDigital – Buy
CSCO – Cisco – Buy
JNPR – Juniper – Buy
AKAM – Akamai – Buy
MRK – Merck – Buy – “Final Trade”

Macke:
MS – Morgan Stanley – Sell
GLD – streetTRACKS Gold – Sell
USO – U.S. Oil Fund – Sell – “Final Trade”
NKE – Nike – Buy
VZ – Verizon – Buy
CHL – China Mobile – Buy
AMX – American Movil – Buy

Jeffery Harte, Managing Director at Sandler O’Neill:
USB – U.S. Bancorp – Buy
JPM – JP Morgan – Buy

Pops (stocks that jumped higher):
FNM – Fannie Mae (10%) – Seymour: I like it
FRE – Freddie Mac (10%) – Seymour: I like it, too
DRI – Darden Restaurants (7%) – Macke: interesting
LNN – Lindsay Corp. (18%) – Najarian: outstanding

Drops (stocks that slid lower):
DFS – Discover Financial Services (13%) – Adami: get rid of this stock
PTR – PetroChina (8%) – Seymour: I still like this stock
FCX – Freeport McMoRan (10%) – Adami: it’s a buying opportunity
ERIC – Ericsson (10%) – Macke: no need to get long
NOK – Nokia (10%) – Najarian: I own this stock, and it’s killing me
NVDA – Nvidia (7%) – Najarian: I think it has room on the downside
CSCO – Cisco (4%) – Najarian: I like this stock as an infrastructure play
MNST – Monster Worldwide (9%) – Macke: first quarter costs may exceed analyst estimates
PBR – Petrobras (9%)