Tuesday, 01/15/08
Posted 01/16/08,  1:23 am

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Today's date:  Tuesday, 01/15/08

  Dow Jones: 12,501   - 277
  NASDAQ:   2,417     - 60
  S&P 500:   1,380     - 35
 
 
 
 


On trading Citigroup (C*)...
JJC:   I got this wrong.  I expected bold action... I expected bold action.  I didn't get bold action...  If he (i.e., CEO, Vikram Pandit) took all that capital in, why didn't he wipe out more of the bad?  AAA means nothing...  Every other bit of AAA is backed up by agency paper that they cannot afford... the agencies cannot afford to backstop any AAA, and the ratings agencies were wrong, and the insurance companies were wrong...  They got another $20 billion...  There's another $20 billion that they can take.  There is.  Plus I want to hear that Nikko Cordial is out... I want to hear an unwind and repudiation of previous management... I want to hear Prince (i.e., previous CEO, Chuck Prince) gone... I want to hear Bob Rubin (Director) gone...  I mean, the legacy of Prince gone...  It's time for Bob to move on... he's done a lot of good work in his life, but anyone who was involved in the Prince regime, it's time for them to move on...  absolutely.  Prince wrecked the franchise.  O'Neill was trying to wreck it, but wasn't really able to do it.  Prince was extraordinary, in terms of his wrecking the franchise...  This was a chance to take this stock up, if he (Pandit) had been clean, clean, clean...  because they raised so much capital...   I just want him to make bold statements... I'm not asking for Jack Bauer (ref. to Fox's show, "24")...  So you sell the common (stock), and you buy the convertible preferred.  That's what I did with Ford Motor Co. (F)... I recommended that you buy the preferred in Countrywide (CFC), not the common... This is a better piece... If you weren't stuck in C*...  I'm in it in my charitable trust...  I would love to be able to swap this for that preferred, and everyone's going to do that...  That's what happens...  If you create a better piece of paper than the common, people are going to sell the common and buy the preferred.  Now you're going to have two more quarters where you're going to have charges, and no one wants that.

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On a reversal of position on Agriculture stocks...
JJC:   Agriculture went parabolic yesterday...  My experience in 29 years of trading is that, when stocks go parabolic - meaning they go up $8, like Mosaic (MOS) did...  If you don't take some off the table, I am guaranteeing that you will get hurt.  No parabolic move is ever sustainable...  Monsanto Co. (MON), Mosaic (MOS), Agrium (AGU), Deere & Co. (DE), Bunge (BG), Syngenta AG (SYT)...   Look, you can revisit these lower but, as oil comes down, people will sell these...  I think these are still the best thesis, but I can't... I want to be on record as saying listen, I've liked this group but, you know, it's enough...  This market's too hard.  I don't want people to lose these profits... I just now feel yesterday's parabolic move is too dangerous for me...  too dangerous for me...

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Stock Snapshots - Includes all stocks mentioned above

 

 

 

Jim
Cramer's
rating on
this stock

STOCK
SYMBOL

Closing
price
that
day

Opening
price
next
day

Full Company Name/Comments
(see comments above for each)

C*

26.94

27.00

Citigroup (C*)

na

na

na

Citigroup's preferred stock
(we could not determine the symbol)

MON

123.34

121.82

Monsanto Co. (MON)

MOS

101.25

97.04

Mosaic (MOS)

AGU

66.69

65.26

Agrium (AGU)

DE

92.36

91.76

Deere & Co. (DE)

BG

127.21

125.63

Bunge (BG)

SYT

53.62

52.14

Syngenta AG (SYT)

   
 

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