Tuesday, 05/20/08
Posted 05/20/08,  8:22 pm ET

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Today's date:  Tuesday, 05/20/08

  Dow Jones: 12,828 -  199
  NASDAQ:   2,492  -  23
  S&P 500:   1,413  -  13
 
 
 
 
 
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On the market selloff today...

JJC:   Well, first of all, we're due. I mean, it's about time. We had a lot of optimism... It looks like a lot of shorts finally covered. That's what happened last week with the retail move... We had a lot of analysts reach... yesterday, with the Union Pacific (UNP) upgrade... the rails... hey, heaven love the rails, but they do not have to be up every day. Take a little breather from the rails now and then. I think it's a good time to ring the register on groups that have been up, up, up... having parabolic moves... Take a little off the table. I don't get excited about anything financial yet. It's just too, too difficult... But, you know, there are lot of companies coming in that have had pretty good numbers, most recently... I mean, if a Honeywell (HON) comes down... I mean, that would have been a great one to talk about, because that one pre-announced the other day, and it's not really doing anything. So, I'm not a big fan of tech. I do believe that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is going to be good. I am not a big fan of what I regard as being the bottom fishing in the insurers and the banks... However, Nucor (NUE) is different... NUE files a secondary (offering of stock), and that I want to be in...

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On Nucor (NUE)...
JJC:    NUE files a secondary (offering of stock), and that I want to be in... because I think that steel is part of the giant rebuild... 12 million people moving from one area to another in China... That's 100 times (hurricane) Katrina... I mean, NUE is going to buoy all of steel. You know, very rarely do I ever want to be involved in a secondary... Not this one. This is a winner.

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On the oil and drug stocks...
JJC:    They're not expensive. What can I say? They're not expensive... These are companies... and I want to distinguish these from the rails... A lot of these companies, if you go around Wall Street, and ask what's the average price that people are using, people are not using $125 (per barrel price of oil) in their numbers.... no one's using $125... so these are literally ones where they're not multiple expansion... the estimates are going up... If you put a larger multiple to them, then boom...

Now, the other stocks that are going up today are the drugs. That I really like... You know what's interesting? A lot of the anti-Hillary stocks are going up. Like, people think that Obama is better for the drug companies and better for the HMOs than Hillary... and those are both rallying... Oh, contrare... he's every bit as bad for those...

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On the rail stocks...
JJC:    They're just almost mindless!... Well, they move it (coal and grain) around everyday. It doesn't mean you've got to move the stocks around everyday! Look... I like CSX Corp. (CSX)... Union Pacific (UNP), yesterday... the upgrade... All I'm saying is, you know what... every now and then... just as kind of like a prudence method, you take a little off the table. Listen, you can go right back tomorrow, but this group is acting as if we're in an ethanol boom, which we could be right now. It's like, the only group reacting to the 12 million people who have to move in China... are the U.S. rail companies... Ahh... I've got a problem with that...

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On T. Boone Pickens' comments today...
JJC:    Didn't you love Pickens telling the truth?... Wasn't that odd?... You know, ethanol's a joke... oil's not the dollar play... Now look, everybody feels this way, but no one want to say it... He is such a good guy. There are guys that come on and say, you know what, I'm not going to lie today... I'm going to tell the truth... To be fair, he is right about ethanol... that's a political issue. Remember, I've had ever politician on... They all say ethanol is really important. 3% of gasoline (saved by the use of ethanol) destroying 30% of America's food supply... is about as dumb a thing as I've ever heard, and thank heavens for Boone Pickens for saying it... Look, I'm the most repacious capitalist who's ever lived, and yet, I still have some horse sense! I'm not selling the natural gas... Those stocks, if they come down, I'm a buyer, because you divide it by six... you divide oil by six and that's the true price of what natural gas has been. It does have a formula...

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