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Jim Cramer's Stop Trading! Polo Scores

Stock quotes in this article: WB , WM , CFC , RL  

Deep-pocketed interest in HSBC (HBC Quote) delivers a "wake-up call" to bears in other financial stocks, Jim Cramer said Monday on CNBC's "Stop Trading!" segment.

Cramer said the fact that Saudi Arabian investor Maan Abdulwahed Al-Sanea took a 3% stake in HSBC shows that shorts will be feeling the pain in lenders everywhere. Cramer said HSBC is "the most hobbled of the international banks," given the huge writeoffs it had to take in the fourth quarter for its exposure to "crummy loans" and the collapse of the U.S. subprime sector.

Still, Cramer said the buy could be similar to Saudi prince Alwaleed's fabled 1991 purchase of Citi (C Quote) before the stock soared 20-fold. ...

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