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Here we go again: drawing bogus conclusions from "the action." The fact that we couldn't stay up big after a totally accommodative statement means the market's no good.
Unfortunately, the election did not impact the oils, the techs or the banks, and those are the drivers. You are not going to move the market's needle with a rally in Abbott (ABT - commentary - Trade Now), WellPoint (WLP - commentary - Trade Now), Merck (MRK - commentary - Trade Now)and Pfizer (PFE - commentary - Trade Now). This market could give a fig whether Johnson & Johnson (JNJ - commentary - Trade Now) rallies. In fact, Transocean (RIG - commentary - Trade Now), with its not-so-hot quarter, and Wells Fargo (WFC - commentary - Trade Now), with the endless death threat of a secondary hanging over it, and Research In Motion (RIMM - commentary - Trade Now) mean more than all of those winning stocks put together. In fact, the Nasdaq, excluding Apple (AAPL - commentary - Trade Now) and Google (GOOG - commentary - Trade Now), acted pretty awfully. So, again, I bridle at the notion that the "action" is poor. I simply point out that, just as we can be in a rolling correction, we can be in a rolling rally. It was health care's turn today, yesterday it was the transports, courtesy of Warren Buffet. Really nothing more than that. At the time of publication, Cramer was long ABT and WFC. Special note from Jim: You can learn my time-tested ways to trade smart, even in this market. All my latest thinking is in my brand-new book, Getting Back to Even, which I'll send to you as part of a special promotion when you sign up for my Action Alerts PLUS service for a limited time. So if you sign up now, you'll get to see how I'm playing these stocks in my portfolio today, plus, I'll teach you how you can play these stocks to help your portfolio get back to even.
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