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stay with cramer. >>> don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question tweet kramer #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-742-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. new york state is reinventing how we do business by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the income tax on manufacturers altogether. with startup-ny, qualified businesses that start, expand or relocate to new york state pay no taxes for 10 years. all to grow our economy and create jobs. see how new york can give your business the opportunity to grow at ny.gov/business >>> welcome back to tonight's methods to madness special where i'm reviewing some of my best tricks for buying and selling stocks truly timeless investing wisdom for the ages i hope. next up how do you find stocks that are great buys? earlier i was talking about picking off stocks that are puck

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stick with cramer! . >>> regular viewers know that the transports are one of the most important groups out there. one that you always need to watch, because when the transports are strong it means commerce is picking up and when they're weak typically it means commerce is slowing down. this sector gives you a powerful read on the entire economy. while the averages had a couple decent days in a roy, it makes me feel concerned when i think about the fact that the transports have been performing pretty terribly relative to the rest of the marketplace. this super significant group, frankly, it's just plain ugly. that's why tonight we got to go off the charts and physical out where the heck the transports are headed. we will use bob lang the brilliant technician as well as being the technical guru of the three-man team behind the street.com's terrifically performing tech stocks. lange believes after the recent weakness in the airlines the railroads, the trucking stocks and the delivery services there with co

cramer. >> how do you like that? that's something. >> caller: my question being an investor in the union pacific railroad, any concern on your part? >> the stock held the technical level. i was going over this with my friend and colleague. we like the fact that it held the technical level but i don't have anything to say until we see the next quarter. a great company. coal is not that goal but the important thing, i think you're in union pacific, you're fine. ed in florida, ed? >> caller: booyah, jim. >> hey. >> caller: it's beautiful here. a little rain today. but my question today is about lowe's. if it's for a good buy or not? >> i was going over this with jack, the research director. and you know what? part of my charitable trust. i said paint is good. i said some outdoors things are good. i like the fact that grouping was good from owens corning. tools are good. i think lowe's is a buy buy buy. that's whey the charitable trust owns it. if you have the right good, the current situation cannot derail you. domino's

i'm jim cramer. see you next time.believe they have the next big business idea will enter the shark tank seeking the financial backing to make their dreams come true. there. that's called kick butt. this is one of our movements. this is how i keep my adonis figure in shape. you are definitely built like a god-- buddha, to be exact. (laughs) the sharks are ready to invest using their own money, but only for the right person with the right idea. how much do you love money? do you love it as much as i do? probably not. but first, the entrepreneurs must convince a shark to invest the full amount they're asking for... mommy! or they'll walk away with nothing. i'm getting this strange feeling you don't like me. i do like you. i just don't know that i can work with you. (sharks laugh) and if the sharks hear a good idea, they'll fight each other for a piece of it. i was sort of tenderizing you for my offer.

stick with cramer! >> announcer: don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> yesterday i noticed something bizarre. i'm always looking at different stocks all day. even though the price of oil plunged 6% the stock of sun edison symbol sune one of the largest developers of solar power projects managed to rally. today hit a 52-week high. why is that crazy? because solar power competes directly with other forms of energy including oil. when the price of crude gets slammed, soil becomes less economical and less attractive. somehow, even though the price of oil has come down to just $50 since october, sun edison managed to surge about 75% higher over the same period. it continues to roar. precisely the opposite of what you would expect which begs the question, what the heck is going on here? why aren't they selling the dar

stick with riteaid and cramer! >>> now that we've entered the second quarter of 2015 i think it's time to take a closer look at one of this year's best performing groups the retailers. why not? largely domestic and a big beneficiary of the collapse in commodities of all kinds, especially gasoline. one of the things we've noticed in 2015 that the stocks within a given sector are not longer trading in lockstep with each other. instead, we've been seeing a lot of differentiation with lots of winners and losers coexisting within the same cohort. and even though the retail space has been strong the rth rallying 8% in the first quarter, there's still plenty of retailers that have been lagging. we know that this environment where we have a hale job market and the consumer has lots of spare change in her pocket, thanks to the prices at the pump, it's pretty favorable for retail. but we still need to take time to analyze both the winners and the losers. because some retailers are doing very well. while others are having tro

stick with cramer. to healthy food. the first time american kids are slated to live a shorter life span than their parents. it's a problem that we can turn around and change. revolution foods is a company we started to provide access to healthy affordable, kid-inspired chef-crafted food. we looked at what are the aspects of food that will help set up kids for success? making sure foods are made with high quality ingredients and prepared fresh everyday. our collaboration with citi has helped us really accelerate the expansion of our business in terms of how many communities we can serve. working with citi has also helped to fuel our innovation process and the speed at which we can bring new products into the grocery stores. we are employing 1,000 people across 27 urban areas and today, serve over 1 million meals a week. until every kid has built those life-long eating habits, we'll keep working. >>> all right. now remember we're in earnings season. whoever reports last suddenly just colored the whole process. bed bath an

cramer. thank you for taking my call.ank you. >> my pleasure. >> caller: what i want to ask you, honey. i'm with ibm. i know it is doing pretty well but they made a deal with. >> apple j & j. >> caller: what is that about? >> that's about the health kit. i think it is a better deal for apple than ibm. only 29% of ibmas business is involved with the data collection. i think ibm is going to have a weak quarter. the stock may discount some of that but at 164, frankly, i'm a little worried about it. at 158, 159, i think that's where you can feel a lot safer ahead of what cob a very weak quarter. >>> google don't drop the ball. play it. much more "mad money" ahead. including my response to the cramericans out there. >> don't put your hopes all in one company or corner the market. >>> a special hump day edition of the lightning round is just ahead. please, please, stick with cramer! at mfs, we believe in the power of active management. our teams collaborate around the world, which leads to better decisions for our clients. put

tweet cramer, #madtweets.end jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> for the last few days i have been telling you about the sea change in the market where a weakening dollar among other things is bolstering the stocks of u.s. companies that do a lot of business overseas. which brings me to eaton. a classic industrial with huge industrial exposure that manufactures electrical control products, hydraulics, truck transmissions and aerospace systems. i have liked them for ages. i own it in my charitable trust and last night they reported a good quarter. off the 98 cent basis, some people thought it came in late, but the company is facing some serious strong dollar head winds but thank you managed to off set it with cost controls and improving margins. witness the 140 basis point increase. and plus eaton is paying you a bountiful dividend 3.2%. let's look with sandy cutler the chairman and ceo of eaton and a straight shooter who consist

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stick with cramer! . >>> how do you deal with this environment where we have a kind of looming slowdown maybe 1% gdp growth hanging over second quarter eastern on days like today it seemed pretty good? what do we know about slow downs? what have we learned? in the slow downs stocks with big dividends tend to outperform because the lower economic environment presumes lower interest rates. which means these stocks pay less attention from the bond market. >> that makes them attractive. which dividend stocks should we be buying? which should we have faith in? which ones have been vetted through a long-term prison by the best there is? how about the highest yielding stocks owned by warren buffet? who better navigate through these uncertain times. they compile a list of the ten high yield holdings. tonight i'm going through that list and counting down my own top five favorites, yes, adding my subjective knowledge to the idea that this zifd in good shape or else buffet wouldn't own it. so what are buffet's ten

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i have to take a write-down. >> cramer to mexico cramer to united states, you don't have -- cramer toke kimberly-clark to mexico buy to hold. >> aren't you going to make it up at bar san miguel what you're buying from mexico coming down in price? >> having big numbers. when the patio opens, same-store sales will grow up dramatically. >> tequila sales. >> george clooney, you can't keep it stocked. >> wait until apple pay is in. >> you can't go like that and get apple pay. it will be like this by the end of the week. >> traders sitting on their hands ahead of the jobs number tomorrow. dow's up six points. mary thompson. >> a mixed open for the markets. markets moving higher at least stocks do. as you mentions traders not expecting big volume today. no one wants to go long going into the employment report tomorrow in the long holiday weekend. stocks are up. weakness in today little bit of weakness in the dollar. pull back in bond prices. gold and oil lower. transports as well in today's session. again, expected to be a fairly quiet one. so let's take a look at dow components, see how the

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and hillary cramer, president and cio of cramer capital.nd steve cortes, bgc trader and senior strategist live with us from chicago. let's do it. dig into the first real, real deal. all right, steve forbes, you know, it's been a nerve wrecking season. we have these sessions where the markets are down triple digits. the earnings came in pretty good. there was a direct correlation, in my mind, the stock market, the pulse of america, the economy, but that may be fading. is it sort of true? steve: yes, what we see today is information is more instantaneous than ever before. charles: but is wall street a reflection of main street? steve: wall street is a reflection of what they think will happen in the future. moves on the populous, people going against those moods, when you feel bad is the time to get in. when you feel good, the time to get out. charles: you're saying wall street's success right now. particularly tomorrow, we have a chance at making all-time highs. that's good news for main street six months down the road or a year down the roa

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mark benoff was on with cramer last night. >> he was. >> no behind of any of that. something was brewing at that time that we didn't know about. something to keep an eye on. >> let's bring in semad with fbr. your reaction to this deal, does it surprise you? >> it doesn't surprise us. oracle has been trying to establish itself as a legitimate leader in the cloud. who better to go after than salesforce.com. the company that pioneered the cloud. they've been driving innovation. application vendorses like workday or salesforce other innovative companies are attacking them from all sides. what better way to establish yourself as the leader in the cloud by acquiring the top company in that space and bringing over a very talented group of people at the leadership level and sales and technology as well. >> why are you so convinced this is oracle? >> if you think about it from a technology standpoint salesforce.com was built using the oracle data base, you have strong ties with both companies. heath block is a former oracle executive as well. as you look at the organization

i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer and dave faber. jim took the red eye and premarket is seeing red as the nikkei has its worst day since january. a lot of earnings to get to. oil up 40% from its march lows and the ten-year yield creeping up to almost actually to 2.07 as jobless claims hit a 15-year low. our road map with stock futures in the red. exxon and conocophillips moving some of those stocks. sales force surging on the news it hired advisors to look at takeover offers. more of the apple watch dlis. a defective component to blame. apple announcing another partnership with ibm. we'll get to that in a minute. first up a lot for investors to digest on this final trading day of april. consumer spending up 0.4 last month. claims down last week by 34,000 to 262,000. that's a 15-year low. employment costs up 0.7%. on the earnings front, exxonmobil did top estimates despite a 46% drop in first quarter profit. exxon revenue, i love these figures. last year $106 billion. this quarter, $67 billion. >> you have to understand exxon had good

. >>> come up on "mad money" tonight, cramer has got an exclusive with the ceo of ventas. take on why solar stock has a bright future. and a new addition to his wall of shame. more on "mad money." up next we have your first move tomorrow. stay tuned. time and sales data. split second stats. it's so close to the options floor. you'll bust your brain-box. all on thinkorswim. from td ameritrade let me talk to you about retirement. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable, professional. would you trust me as your financial advisor? i would. i would indeed. well, let's be clear here. i'm actually a dj. [ dance music plays ] [laughs] no way! i have no financial experience at all. that really is you? if they're not a cfp pro, you just don't know. find a certified financial planner professional who's thoroughly vetted at letsmakeaplan.org. cfp -- work with the highest standard. mileageplus® explorer card. we're saving our united miles... ...for a trip to hawaii. we love free checked bags. i've saved $75 in checked bag fees. no

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really echoing what cramer said a few moments ago. he's sitting there with the program already loosening up the credit and he's seen a demand for household credit out there. financial conditions have eased. that's on one hand. on the other hand he's leaning on something in the market if it's working already and working so quickly, maybe the ecb should end it early. no possibility. we're going with full implementation implementation. it would be like starting a 13 k run and ending it after 1 k was done. what he's saying is there's a long way to go here on european quantitative reasoning. >> it's been a busy morning. we're go to get to housing data later in the morning. we got retail sales numbers and abunch of other stuff. >> the program goes on. what you should be thinking is all these companies that have a problem with strong dollar in which delta this morning, entail, your problems may not be over because you keep that program going. you're going to take that euro to a much lower level. >> you may not have seen. i know a lot of peop

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cramer i'm going hit viacom.y the way, yesterday when the news came out after the bell viacom's taking a charge of $785 million and suspending its buyback, many might have thought the stock would be down sharply. it's not. down less than 1%. still the news is interesting to focus on in part because it may at least give a sense of larger trends though some say it's specific to viacom itself. the charge itself much of it $430 million of it is coming from writing down essentially what used to be the expected life of your produced series that go into syndication. in this case for example, csi, community, entourage, they don't have as long a life as they used to. why? netflix. they don't go into cindysyndication and produce the same profitability over a longer period of time. so the write-downs to a certain extent in programming of that the 785 million are related to that, and also related to competitive reality programming, which again they have to burn off after speaking to management over as little as three months

"mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. right now. >>> my mission is simple.o make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always work in. i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now. >>> hey i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to criamerica. i'm trying to make you money. my job is not to entertain. call me at 1800707 cnbc. here we go again. we have a huge 6% break in the price of oil. just when i was beginning to fret. th

infield single and off the glove of cramer.lish ford the shut out. 4 nothing and take 3 of 5 in the season series with the arch riffal. nba coach of the year award. steve certainly deserved it for the warriors didn't get it. honor went to coach mike and vote close. 5 threaten points to 4 71. prevailing sentiment around the country that he did more with less. took hawk team without any ben fight superstar and led them to best record in the east. steve blessd with splash brothers and took the war dwrors franchise record 67 victory. he was good friends from the san antonio why day and pleased with the voting. >> would have felt really weird to win that award when this team has had so much success and was already really good last year before i got here. and i just, i don't know. film am just happy it worked out the way it d.mike deserves it. and our team has gotten so much recognition f.i have gotten way too much credit. i didn't need any more. >>reporter: how classy. really. >> that was great. >> not tooch too many guys willing to

jim cramer joins us now.the markets yesterday, you were pretty i guess you sort of saw that coming that it probably wasn't going to end sharply lower. but did you feel that it was the dollar weakening. >> yes. >> why is that such a -- why is that a big help for us? why does that turn things around. >> i tell you, we're going into earnings season and analysts haven't cut their numbers yet ahead of what are we going to see are just huge swing because the dollar so anything that modulates that look remember only about -- 30% of the analysts cut number as head of international companies. so anything that indicates the dollar could go a little bit lower makes them feel more confident they don't have to hack the numbers, also makes the ceos more confident they don't have to lower forecast that much. so it makes the whole commentary narrative more positive. you got fred on. >> look i just think when you listen to what fred's going to say, fred is going to say that europe's back. it's a fantastic call and i love the

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. >> it also raises the larger question of things that jim cramer and others have said. why trade it? why trade it so much? why not -- just own it? >> this is what i do. so in other words, judge, for me and for our clients in the tax-deferred area, that's why we, you can do that. in your 401(k)s and your iras and so forth, can you flip in and out of these things, you don't have a taxable consequence. why not do it that way. if, on the other hand you have a taxable consequence, understand exactly what jim cramer is saying, buy it, hold it forever. pete has done that it's worked out very well. so has josh and jim. i'm one of those guys that has to trade things, i don't own anything for long. >> apple hits an all-time high, moves into negative territory. you had people pulling money out of it now the stock goes back up positive. i guess maybe the only thing can you find weakness in was ipads. >> but you're cannibalizing that. everything was absolutely out of the park. the 61 million in terms of the iphones themselves. here's the thing why it keeps me in the stock still to t

i'm carl quintanilla, jim cramer and david faber. who would have thought caterpillar would be a good standout? futures are relatively weak. oil claims below 300 k for the seventh week in a row. road map begins with caterpillar. reporting a beat strong dollar citing that as part of the boost. some of the blue chip peers not getting the same love. we'll get to all of it in the premarket. >> that strong dollar is cutting into pepsico's bottom line. we'll speak to the company ceo hugh johnson in a couple of minutes. >> facebook has more monthly users than the entire population of china. the mobile ad revenue impressing some on the street. despite that revenue miss, where will the stock open today? procter and gamble quarterly profit in line but sales fell for a fifth straight quarter. currency effects weighing on 3m. caterpillar beating the street. >> we saw construction in the u.s. and north america up. that's the bright spot we have. it's fairly anemic but it's growing. it's getting better quarter by quarter. we see that. we are happy

let's take jp morgan first, jim cramer said fabulous quarter. do you agree?this quarter is an inflection point for jp morgan. the last three years, their efficiency went nowhere. and this quarter, efficiency is at a turning point. this is the start of a couple-year trend of better optimizing the film. there's been a lot of pressure on jp morgan. why don't they break up? we brought up that issue. either prove it or lose it. this quarter showed that jp morgan can better optimize. >> it sounds like you agree with cramer. of your top picks, jp morgan is nowhere to be seen. it's morgan stanley and citigroup, why? >> citigroup and morgan stanley are fantastic restructuring stories, so there's even more to optimize at those two firms than jp morgan. but in this revenue environment, revenue growth in the banking still is still the worst in eight decades, citi has a lot of levers to pull. >> what do you have an jp morgan? >> an outperform rating wooxt he were negative on jp morgan for three years, we changed, this is the first year if a while we've been recommending i

"mad money" starts now. >>> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money."just trying to make you money. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc eor tweet me @jimcramer. garden variety days in this market we must always guard against our own human emotions. which often

. >> cramer said they wouldn't do this for regulatory reasons. maybe that's the case.pany that has pretty much understood they need to build versus buy and they've done really well with organic growth even throw on the social side they haven't been able to have as much success. i would argue a different point which is that google is a very smart acquisition machine. if they were going to acquire twitter they could have done it cheaper. stock up 47% this year. they could have approached twitter at the lows. the company probably would not have sold at that price but they could have gotten a better deal. now it's arguing it's pretty expensive at this level. >> regulatory approval, absolutely. google stepped back from groupon the rumors were because they didn't think they could get that through approval. at a $34 billion market cap for twitter, a $370 billion market cap for google and a stock deal, it would be 10, 20% depending on what you think the premium will be, google hasn't done stuff like that unlike facebook. they will have $100 billion in cash by 2016 according to

but i think that if you speak to your colleague jim cramer. jim cramer said even after we announced that we're one of the only ones whose stock goes up even after we announce and stays up, i don't know what dates he's picking but when he picked 2012 and 2014 to talk about returns and even those numbers were incorrect and left out 2013, i think it becomes questionable as to who he's on -- and he's quoting directly from du pont's fight letters in certain cases. >> what about i guess the argument in general, nelson, that activists like you, you get on the board, you spend -- this is over maybe an 18-month and two-year period and you get the company to do what you want initially, you go flu the playbook, you get the buyback, get your seat, maybe get a dividend, get a spinoff. but then what? what value do you and other activist investors bring to a company once the initial playbook runs its course? >> scott, first of all, we work the income statement first. and therein is a big difference between us and some other activists, not all. the background

. >> reporter: raymond cramer and his wife made it underground just in time. >> pulled in here ran inside, got a couple pictures of the tornados. we went down in the basement. 12 of us in the basement. >> reporter: the tornado destroyed a rochelle restaurant. emergency workers pulled survivors from the basement. >> i talked to another resident as this was going through. she went someplace else and came back and texted me and said the town was devastated. >> reporter: the storm also brought large hail and heavy rain. more storming are ahead of the weather front as it moves eastward. danielle nottingham, cbs news. >>> roads flooded by the heaven rain. some vehicles were completely submerged. eric fisher of our station has more. lots of tornado and storms. a lot of damaging storms broaden it out. these are all wind and hail damage reportsal all 'long into texas. we're tracking it eastward for friday. the warm air along the east coast and gulf coast. most of it will take the form of a squall line as we head into the afternoon. so from the mid-atlantic including philly/d.c. areas and reaching