Jim Cramer's Stop Trading! Buy Altria

Cramer likes consumer staples in this fearful environment.

Author:: TheStreet.com Staff
Publish date:: Nov 1, 2007 2:54 PM EDT

Buy

Altria

, Jim Cramer said Thursday on CNBC's Stop Trading! segment.

Cramer said recession fears and worries about financial stocks point to the need to buy consumer staples like cigarette maker Altria and soft drink companies

Coke

(KO) - Get Report

and

Pepsi

(PEP) - Get Report

Cramer cautioned investors to stay away from mortgage stocks like insurer

MBIA

(MBI) - Get Report

, because housing prices are far more important to the consumer's health than job numbers. Cramer said an unwarranted faith in the apparent strength of U.S. employment was behind the collapse of two hedge funds at

Bear Stearns

(BSC)

this summer.

"Employment has been a false indicator for this economy," Cramer said.

Cramer likes

Carnival

(CCL) - Get Report

better than

Royal Caribbean

(RCL) - Get Report

, because Carnival has moved its ships to Europe to cash in on the stronger economy there, and likes

NCR

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to buy into the coming spinoff of its holdings in

Teradata

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At the time of publication, Cramer was long Altria.

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