NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

TheStreet

continued its

TheStreetMONSTER investment conference

with a bang today, starting with Jim Cramer talking about the Federal Reserve and quantitative easing, and how it affects the individual investors.

Cramer noted that the Fed's discussion of "stimulus on, stimulus off" has become the topic

du jour

, and investors were hurt by the recent rise in interest rates, with bond-like investments, including utilities, REITs and other high-yielding investments seeing damage with the rise in interest rates.

Housing related stocks led for months, and now that scenario has shifted, with the price action changing recently. Cramer believes that housing as a theme is not finished for 2013, specifically mentioning

Home Depot

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as a name he still likes. If the 10-year U.S. Treasury goes to 1.8%, housing related names could see a boost, Cramer said during the presentation.

In the second half of the year, we're going to want higher-growth stocks, according to Cramer, citing names like

Micron

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and

HP

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, which have seen multiple downgrades recently. However, Cramer noted these names could be the big winners for the second-quarter, especially in an environment where macro economics is the topic du jour.

Specifically,

TheStreet

founder and host of

CNBC's

Mad Money

pointed to the turnaround work being done by HP CEO Meg Whitman: "I was blown away by the transformation of the balance sheet."

Cramer also mentioned names such as

Seagate Technology

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,

Western Digital

(WDC) - Get Report

and

Microsoft

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which could also benefit in the second-quarter, as well as

Intel

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, due to the overblown concerns about the death in the PC.

"This is a revenge of the low-multiple nerds against the smartphone," Cramer said. "I think this entire rally we've seen this year, is in left-for-dead stocks," mentioning such names as

Netflix

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,

First Solar

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and

Boston Scientific

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, seeing sharp increases year-to-date.

Cramer also said that he likes the oil & gas sectors, mentioning

EOG

(EOG) - Get Report

, the airlines (

US Airways

(LCC)

), and the "Gatsby" stocks, including

VF Corp.

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,

Ralph Lauren

(RL) - Get Report

,

Michael Kors

(KORS)

and other high-end consumer discretionary names.

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Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York

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