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On Thursday Cramer said he didn’t believe the markets would fall below the lows set on July 15 and that a bottom is forming due to lower oil and natural gas prices.

Bullish
Deere & Co (DE) (Lightning Round)
Frontline (FRO) (Lightning Round)
H&R Block (HRB) (featured on Mad Money)
Halliburton (HAL) (Lightning Round)
Healthways (HWAY) (Lightning Round)
Honda Motor (HMC) (Lightning Round)
Nabors Industries (NBR) (Lightning Round)
Nordic American Tanker (NAT) (Lightning Round)
Oilsands Quest (BQI) (Lightning Round)
United Parcel Service (UPS) (Lightning Round)
Wells Fargo (WFC) (CEO interview on Mad Money)

Bearish
CIRCOR International (CIR) (Sudden Death)
Colonial Bancgroup (CNB) (Caller’s Stock)
Diana Shipping (DSX) (Lightning Round)
Fannie Mae (FNM) (Caller’s Stock)
Fedex Corp (Federal Express) (FDX) (Lightning Round)
Freddie Mac (FRE) (Caller’s Stock)
Gamestop (GME) (Lightning Round)
General Motors (GM) (Lightning Round)
Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV) (featured on Mad Money)
Massey Energy (MEE) (Lightning Round)
Union Drilling (UDRL) (Lightning Round)
ValueClick (VCLK) (Sudden Death)
Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI) (Lightning Round)

On Wednesday Cramer recommended BB&T (BBT), a strong, conservative, Southern bank with a 6.36% yield. He said it will reap the rewards of the FDIC’s new strategy for dealing with failing banks, allowing strong banks like BB&T to pick up great assets from failing entities.

Bullish
Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM) (Lightning Round)
BB&T Corp (BBT) (featured on Mad Money)
Celgene (CELG) (Mad Mail)
CSX Corp (CSX) (Mad Mail)
Frontline (FRO) (Lightning Round)
International Business Machines (IBM) (Mad Mail)
Jones Apparel (JNY) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Kohl’s (KSS) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Macy’s (M) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Molson Coors (TAP) (Lightning Round)
Philadelphia Housing Sector Index (HGX) (”buy calls”) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Red Hat (RHT) (Lightning Round)
Research In Motion (RIMM) (Lightning Round)
Schlumberger (SLB) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Sociedad Quimica (SQM) (Lightning Round)
VF Corp. (VFC) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)

Bearish
ADC Telecommunications (ADCT) (Lightning Round)
Bucyrus International (BUCY) (discussed on Mad Money)
CVS Caremark (CVS) (Lightning Round)
Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE) (Lightning Round)
eBay (EBAY) (Lightning Round)
Genentech (DNA) (Sudden Death)
Joy Global (JOYG) (CEO interview on Mad Money)
MGM Mirage (MGM) (Lightning Round)
Norfolk Southern (NSC) (Mad Mail)
Salesforce.com (CRM) (Sudden Death)
Schering-Plough (SGP) (Mad Mail)
Steel Dynamics (STLD) (Sudden Death)
Yamana Gold (AUY) (Lightning Round)

On Tuesday’s “Mad Money” show Cramer said that the rally in the morning was the “real deal” and now is the time to start buying and building positions.

Bullish
Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) (CEO interview on Mad Money)
Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) (Lightning Round)
Foster Wheeler (FWLT) (Lightning Round)
Corning (GLW) (Mad Mail)
St. Joe (JOE) (Lightning Round)
United Parcel Service (UPS) (Lightning Round)

Bearish
Citigroup (C) (Lightning Round)
CH Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) (Lightning Round)
Schering-Plough (SGP) (featured on Mad Money)
Sandisk (SNDK) (Lightning Round)

Friday’s show was a rerun from December 2006. Below is the recap for Wednesday, August 27, 2007, the last show with new picks.

Bullish
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) (Sudden Death)
Cisco Systems (CSCO) (Lightning Round)
Cummins (CMI) (Lightning Round)
Dawson Geophysica (DWSN) (Sudden Death)
Emerson Electric (EMR) (Lightning Round)
Energen (EGN) (Sudden Death)
Fluor (FLR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Foster Wheeler (FWLT) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Google (GOOG) (Lightning Round)
GrafTech International (GTI) (Lightning Round)
ISIS Pharmaceuticals (ISIS) (Caller’s Stock)
J Crew (JCG) (featured on Mad Money)
Longs Drug Stores (LDG) (Caller’s Stock)
Quanta Services (PWR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Shaw Group (SGR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Verizon (VZ) (Lightning Round)
Walgreens (WAG) (featured on Mad Money)

Bearish
ACCO Brands (ABD) (Lightning Round)
Ambac Financial Group (ABK) (Lightning Round)
CVS Caremark (CVS) (featured on Mad Money)
JC Penney (JCP) (Caller’s Stock)
Sears Holding (SHLD) (Caller’s Stock)
Terra Nitrogen (TNH) (Lightning Round)

Thursday’s show was a rerun from May 2007. Below is the recap for Wednesday, August 27, 2007, the last show with new picks.

Bullish
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) (Sudden Death)
Cisco Systems (CSCO) (Lightning Round)
Cummins (CMI) (Lightning Round)
Dawson Geophysica (DWSN) (Sudden Death)
Emerson Electric (EMR) (Lightning Round)
Energen (EGN) (Sudden Death)
Fluor (FLR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Foster Wheeler (FWLT) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Google (GOOG) (Lightning Round)
GrafTech International (GTI) (Lightning Round)
ISIS Pharmaceuticals (ISIS) (Caller’s Stock)
J Crew (JCG) (featured on Mad Money)
Longs Drug Stores (LDG) (Caller’s Stock)
Quanta Services (PWR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Shaw Group (SGR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Verizon (VZ) (Lightning Round)
Walgreens (WAG) (featured on Mad Money)

Bearish
ACCO Brands (ABD) (Lightning Round)
Ambac Financial Group (ABK) (Lightning Round)
CVS Caremark (CVS) (featured on Mad Money)
JC Penney (JCP) (Caller’s Stock)
Sears Holding (SHLD) (Caller’s Stock)
Terra Nitrogen (TNH) (Lightning Round)

On Wednesday Cramer recommended buying J. Crew (JCG) with a price target of $35 one year from today.

Bullish
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) (Sudden Death)
Cisco Systems (CSCO) (Lightning Round)
Cummins (CMI) (Lightning Round)
Dawson Geophysica (DWSN) (Sudden Death)
Emerson Electric (EMR) (Lightning Round)
Energen (EGN) (Sudden Death)
Fluor (FLR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Foster Wheeler (FWLT) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Google (GOOG) (Lightning Round)
GrafTech International (GTI) (Lightning Round)
ISIS Pharmaceuticals (ISIS) (Caller’s Stock)
J Crew (JCG) (featured on Mad Money)
Longs Drug Stores (LDG) (Caller’s Stock)
Quanta Services (PWR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Shaw Group (SGR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Verizon (VZ) (Lightning Round)
Walgreens (WAG) (featured on Mad Money)

Bearish
ACCO Brands (ABD) (Lightning Round)
Ambac Financial Group (ABK) (Lightning Round)
CVS Caremark (CVS) (featured on Mad Money)
JC Penney (JCP) (Caller’s Stock)
Sears Holding (SHLD) (Caller’s Stock)
Terra Nitrogen (TNH) (Lightning Round)

Jim Cramer told viewers of his “Mad Money” TV show on Tuesday that he believes the housing market will bottom in the third quarter of 2009. Cramer reached this conclusion from an analysis of the charts of the seven largest home builders: Toll Brothers (TOL), Centex (CTX), D.R. Horton (DHI), Pulte Homes (PHM), Lennar (LEN), MDC Holdings (MDC) and KB Homes (KBH).

Bullish
AT&T (T) (Lightning Round)
Cal-Maine Foods (CALM) (Lightning Round)
Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) (Lightning Round)
Halliburton (HAL) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) (featured on Mad Money)
Lowes (LOW) (featured on Mad Money)
Monro Muffler (MNRO) (CEO interview on Mad Money)
Nabors Industries (NBR) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)

Bearish
BankUnited Financial (BKUNA) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Corus Bankshares (CORS) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Downey Financial (DSL) (mentioned on Stop Trading!)
Ford Motor (F) (Lightning Round)
Home Depot (HD) (featured on Mad Money)
Lumber Liquidators (LL) (Lightning Round)
Pfizer (PFE) (featured on Mad Money)
United States Steel (X) (Lightning Round)

On Monday’s show Cramer said that that the market will finally bottom only when housing stabilizes. This requires lower interest rates, lower home inventory and higher home sales, which can’t happen while there is speculation on the fate of Fannie Mae (FNN) and Freddie Mac (FRE).

Bullish
Allscripts Healthcare (MDRX) (CEO interview on Mad Money)
Church & Dwight (CHD) (Lightning Round)
Cisco Systems (CSCO) (Lightning Round)
Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) (featured on Mad Money)
Dicks Sporting Goods (DKS) (Lightning Round)
First Solar (FSLR) (Caller’s Stock)
Fuel Systems Solutions (FSYS) (discussed on Mad Money)
Linn Energy (LINE) (Caller’s Stock)
Sovereign Bancorp (SOV) (mentioned on Stop Trading)
Sunpower (SPWR) (Caller’s Stock)
Windstream (WIN) (Sudden Death)

Bearish
Alcon Inc (ACL) (Lightning Round)
Allegheny Technologies (ATI) (Lightning Round)
Banco Santander-Chile (SAN) (Sudden Death)
Fannie Mae (FNM) (discussed on Mad Money)
Fannie Mae (FNM) (mentioned on Stop Trading)
Freddie Mac (FRE) (discussed on Mad Money)
Freddie Mac (FRE) (mentioned on Stop Trading)
Lehman Brothers (LEH) (mentioned on Stop Trading)
Nordson (NDSN) (mentioned on Stop Trading)
Nordson Corp (NDSN) (featured on Mad Money)
Vodafone Group (VOD) (Sudden Death)

“This is one of the most challenging periods in my 30-year trading history,” Cramer told viewers on a special, midday edition of “Mad Money” on Thursday. Cramer said that the doom and gloom in the market and negativity was alarming.

Bullish
CSX (CSX) (CEO interview on Mad Money)
HJ Heinz (HNZ) (CEO interview on Mad Money)

Bearish
Lehman Brothers (LEH) (discussed on Mad Money)

On another special, midday episode of Mad Money Wednesday, Cramer said that retailer TJ Maxx (TJX) is now among his favorites. In the technology sector, Cramer sees strength in many of the big cap tech names like Research In Motion (RIMM), Apple (AAPL), Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and even Qualcomm (QCOM).

Bullish
Apple (AAPL) (discussed on Mad Money)
Google (GOOG) (discussed on Mad Money)
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) (discussed on Mad Money)
Intel (INTC) (discussed on Mad Money)
Qualcomm (QCOM) (discussed on Mad Money)
Research In Motion (RIMM) (discussed on Mad Money)
TJX Companies (TJX) (discussed on Mad Money)
Tyson Foods (TSN) (CEO interview on Mad Money)
Waste Management (WMI) (CEO interview on Mad Money)