Cramer's Take on Top-Searched Stocks
Updated from 11:35 a.m. EDT
Wall Street was up on Wednesday, albeit in choppy action, after better-than-expected data was released in the manufacturing and housing sectors. Traders welcomed the positive stats as a sign that the economy is not getting any worse.
The manufacturing data showed that orders for big-ticket items such as cars, airplanes and furniture jumped 3.4% for the month. The move is attributed to an increase in demand for military parts, machinery and computers, helping to boost shares of
Caterpillar
(CAT) - Get Report
,
General Electric
(GE) - Get Report
and
3M
(MMM) - Get Report
.
In housing, sales of new homes, which were expected to be down, were up 4.7% in February. The news sent homebuilder stocks such as
Toll Brothers
(TOL) - Get Report
and
DR Horton
(DHI) - Get Report
soaring.
With this in mind, we thought we'd take a look at some of the stocks people have been searching for on
TheStreet.com
, including
Wal-Mart
(WMT) - Get Report
and
Rio Tinto
(RTP) - Get Report
, and see what
Jim Cramer's had to say about them lately
.
To read more,
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