Friday, 04/11/08
Posted 04/13/08,  08:41 pm ET

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Today's date:  Friday, 04/11/08

  Dow Jones: 12,325   - 256
  NASDAQ:   2,290    - 61
  S&P 500:   1,332    - 27
 
 
 
 
 
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Final Segment 2 Title: 'Mad Mail'...

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CCL

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Mad Mail

Carnival Corp. (CCL)

Q:  
 Thanks for the great call on CCL. I've had a 15% gain and wonder how much more upside there is. My homework suggests these cruises are going to be booked solid from overseas travelers and the mid- to high-income earners in North America, which should lead it to report a fantastic 2Q. I still love the stock and want to see a 50% gain before scaling back but I don't want to be a pig.

JJC:
     You're not going to get a 50% gain. The quarter's just okay. The idea was to pick that stock up in the high $30s and then take the gain... so I don't want you to ride that one back down. I think that would be a mistake.
 

WMT

54.80

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Wal-Mart (WMT)

Q:  
 There's an aspect to the credit crisis that I think has yet to rear its ugly head. I suspect millions of people have purchased furniture, electronics, or appliances on no-money down, no-payments 'til 2009, 2010, 2011, etc. deals. If many of the same people that are facing foreclosures are locked into these deals, how would a retailer or credit provider have any recourse that's worth a fraction of the paper it's written on? Is there any way to determine which companies are most exposed to this type of risk and, secondarily, how they are planning to address the defaults?

JJC:
     Let me positive, rather than negative. WMT doesn't have this problem. And WMT's going to go up to $60, I think, because of exactly what you've described... The people who are credit card companies are most exposed. If you wanted to, you could sell Capital One Financial Corp. (COF) on that... COF is actually doing pretty well... But I understand, and you are probably right to try to make money off of it. I say buy WMT.
 

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Q:  
 Last Friday, you were ranting about builders. I'm a builder. There are two types: ones like TOL who we call "paper builders", because they are corporate... but the majority of builders are small... and we are the biggest victims of this mess. We played by the rules and put our own money into down payments and are risk of losing everything. No one even acknowledges people like us being the real victims. So what you suggest for us?

JJC:
     You're absolutely right, and some of us think the reason that the homebuilder stocks keep going up, is because they realize they've wiped out everybody other than themselves, and it's really a shame. And the fact that they could get $6 billion in tax benefits is just ridiculous. You hang in there. By next year, I think real estate is going to bottom.
 

WM

10.95

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Mad Mail

Washington Mutual (WM)

Q:  
 When a bank raises outside capital, the shares and all investment bank shares seem to go up dramatically. Why? Aren't the other shares of these companies now worth less, because they are more diluted?

JJC:
     Thank you for for getting it. That's why I'm telling people to sell, sell, sell WM... Lehman Brothers (LEH) turned out to be a sale after it reported, after it got that investment. What happens is, there are so many people betting against financials that, when they get the money, people realize that they're going to be solvent... and, when they're solvent, people (i.e., short sellers) feel like they've got to cover.
 
         
 

 

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