Mad Money Recap | Nightly Recap for: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Opening Segment #1:

'Follow The Leader'

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Jim's
rating on
this stock

STOCK
SYMBOL

Closing
price that
day

Full Company Name

GOOG

397.18

Google, Inc. (GOOG)

AAPL

125.87

Apple (AAPL)

CSCO*

18.60

Cisco (CSCO*)

ORCL

18.94

Oracle Corp. (ORCL)

Jim: What should you be thinking of doing when you have a bizarre mechanical selloff at the end of a strong day, as we just had?...

Should you be crying?... Should we be sipping cheap Scotch on a dirty linoleum floor?... No! I think you should adopt "Deep Throat's" adage... I think you should do what he told Woodward and Bernstein... I think you should follow the money!...

Continued below...

Market Results today:

Dow: - 52

Nasdaq: - 6

S&P 500: - 4

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
(Cont'd from above)...

Jim (cont'd):

If you know where the money's flowin', you know which stocks are going higher... and sometimes it's just downright simple to figure out where all that cash is headed...

Right now, for example, there is one mutual fund that is pants-ing everybody else... the redundantly-named American Funds Growth Fund of America (AGTHX)... which is up a miraculous 9.5% year-to-date... That is fantastic performance, relative to everyone else... and that's how you have to think about it...

Here's the bottom line...

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The Bottom Line!: Join the AGTHX team, but remember to buy the stocks, not the mutual fund... Google, Inc. (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Oracle Corp. (ORCL), and Cisco (CSCO*)... Don't buy the mutual fund. Buy the stocks, and let the mutual fund's purchases take you higher.

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