Jim Cramer's Lightning Round

Cramer's 'Mad Money Lightning Round': Going Global

 

Vertex(VRTX): The hepatitis market is a good market and I [also] am rewarming to Millennium(MLNM), so that's a two-fer sir."

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Lightning Round

Cramer was bullish on Motorola(MOT), Charles & Colvard(CTHR), Questar(STR), Corning(GLW), Hi-Tech Pharmacal(HITK), AMR(AMR), Premium Standard Farms(PORK), Navteq(NVT), Sirf Technology(SIRF), UPS(UPS), Vertex Pharmaceuticals(VRTX) and Homex(HXM).

Cramer was bearish on Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME), Amazon.com(AMZN), Best Buy(BBY), Smithfield Foods(SFD), FedEx(FDX) and VeriSign(VRSN).

*For all you home-gamers, a 'mon-back opportunity means Cramer would back up the figurative truck and load up on a stock.

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At the time of publication, Cramer was long Motorola.

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