'Mad Mail'
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Viewers write to Jim, asking about stocks or simply about the market in general...

Jim's
rating on
this stock

STOCK
SYMBOL

Closing
price that
day

Full Company Name & Jim's Comments:

WMT*

54.62

Mad Mail question:

Wal-Mart
(WMT*)

Q:    Now, in these unstable times, it is only
Blockbuster Inc. (BBI) for the movies and Wal-Mart (WMT*) for the double-stuffed Milano cookies. My youngest is 14, and thanks to what I've learned, I've moved his 529 to cash. The only vacation he and I will be taking is camping out in my daughter's Columbia dorm room. In all seriousness, you are so appreciated and needed, especially during these days... you are a good man, Jim Cramer, and quite fun, too...

Jim:    I don't know, maybe... I want to be sure. If you're kid is younger, and won't need the money for five years, then you're not going with me. You've got a different plan. I need only the people who need their money for a major purchase in five years, to take money out of the stock market. Everybody else can let it ride, or keep putting money in. By the way, Wal-Mart, which I own for my charitable trust, I think is the only retailer that you should buy aggressively here, even up $4, I'd buy it aggressively. I think that company is going to blow away the numbers.

 

Continued below...  

 

Market Results today:

Dow + 401 (+4.68%)

Nasdaq + 40 (+5.49%)

S&P 500:  + 38 (+4.25%)

 
 

Jim's
rating on
this stock

STOCK
SYMBOL

Closing
price that
day

Full Company Name & Jim's Comments:

TR

24.21

Mad Mail question:

Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.
(TR)

Q:    I know that, last week, you recommended Hershey Co. (HSY). What do you think about Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. (TR)?

Jim:    I recommended TR not that long ago... HSY had a quarter that was in line. The stock was up. I would continue to buy both of those stocks.

HSY

35.24

Mad Mail question:

Hershey Co.
(HSY)

See TR comments above for:
HSY

na

na

Mad Mail question:

General comments about the government capital infusion plan and banks' ability to pay dividends...


Q:    Under the government capital infusion plan, will and can the major banks continue to pay dividends on current preferred stocks? If so, are they good buys?

Jim:    The answer is yes, they are going to continue. This isn't Britain, where they confiscated them.

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