good yield intel, att fine-yielding telco company.that windstream is not where i want to be in terms of high-yielding companies. ge, company that can boost the dividend and pets med a little more speculative. we've got a health care -- health care company. we have a semiconductor, a telco, a tobacco and we have a general industrial company and, again, we're 3 for 3. stay with cramer. ♪ [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] we created the luxury crossover and kept turning the page, writing the next chapter for the rx and lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection.

good yield intel, att fine-yielding telco company.at windstream is not where i want to be in terms of high-yielding companies. ge, company that can boost the dividend and pets med a little more speculative. we've got a health care -- health care company. we have a semiconductor, a telco, a tobacco and we have a general industrial company and, again, we're 3 for 3. stay with cramer. what did i do with my last fii was a dietician..... a housekeeper... a pediatrician... yeah, that was a third degree booboo a housekeeper... a sanitation engineer... a housekeeper... good thing i had 5-hour energy to keep me going. what will you do with your next five hours? >> okay. we're back in that vortex where we're going to hear a lot of negative stories coming out of washington about job losses, about things going wrong. and it is going to frighten people, and they are going to do some selling. beware that plus the federal reserve notes caused a lot of the weakness today, but i'm telling you to stay the course. i like to say there's always a

think of the high-yielding telcos, verizon, at&t. as communication networks, they don't come cheaply. these depreciation and amortization costs don't come out of a company's actual cash, but they do skew the earnings lower which is why the cash flow can often give you a better idea about the health of the dividend. callers call, say why don't you like the att, doesn't even cover the dividend? it's the cash flow. finally you have to look at the balance sheet to make sure there isn't a lot of debt coming due in the near future. that often can necessitates a dividend cut if the company doesn't have the cash on hand. last but not least, you need to know how to actually collect the dividend. i want you to forget the jargon like declaration date x date and the record date. no, on "mad money" we care about only one date with dividends. that's the must-own date. that's the last day you have to buy a stock in order to claim its next dividend payout. the must-own date is always the day before the x date. and that's what you need to know. the b

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you want a slugfest or give a lecture to larry ellison for his bizarre purchase of acme packet, a telco stock that had been a free fire zone stock for as long as i can remember. it had been a virtual short sell. i don't feel like arguing with ellison any more than i want to argue with kinder or dell or malone or buffett. i do want to find the stocks that the next billionaires are intent on purchasing. when the richer buying, it makes me a heck of a lot more confident. do you mind if i throw in brian roberts, buying the rest of nbc universal, ahead of when he had to. i don't feel like arguing him, because i work for him, but more importantly because i respect him. they don't like to part with a nickel unless they can make a dime off of it. you can see what's happening here. tax is behind us, the sequester bark worse than the bite, if there even will be one, and confidence is back, particularly among those with dollars to back it up. i know the first person to say r.i.p. to sell the rips will be hit with a gigantic sell-off. waiting for a dip in the face of a pool of liquidity brought on

you choose them for your retirement accounts, otherwise go with plain utilities and higher yielding telcosbeyond that, use the same metrics you apply to any other dividend, high yields, it has to be safe, better than enough earnings to make the payoff. we like a consistent track record of raising dividends. that is great for capital gains that are tax protected. the best way to prepare for your retirement is putting your money in an ira and then investing in high yielding dividend stocks. reinvest your dividends and let them compound year after year after year without paying any taxes until you withdraw your money at the very end. that's a terrific recipe for producing huge long term returns. david in california? >> caller: hi, jim. like your show. >> thank you. >> caller: you comment about making conference calls. i'm wondering, you're probably at the institutional level. do the ordinary individuals gain access to these conference calls even in the listen only mode? >> a lot of times they'll let you do that. that it doesn't matter. you don't need it in real time. you can always just go ge

>> you know, i noticed that after the budget deal was struck, the telco services and the ewe till times rallied. a lot of people thought we would go to ordinary income on dividends. when we did not and we got the preferential rate, they rallied. >> hey, barry, brian kelly. i'm curious. we had a 30-year bull market in bonds. now everybody is talking about bond markets selling off. we know that when rates go higher, when either the federal reserve raises rates or go higher, it's tough for the economy. why would bonds selling off be good for the stock market? >> well, a little bit of reinflation is confidence. and it good. the market wants the yields to rise as a sign that deflation has been avoided. if you did a chart of the ten-year yield for the last 25 years, we could rise almost to 3% before you'd even consider breaking the down trend. this market's been in a bull market for bond yields for about three decades, so, 3% is just top of trend. >> barry, let's assume you are right on 1600. which sector will get us there? i mean, if i had to put a dollar to work right now, where would i put

to end at a ten-week low, but australian shares gained 0.3% helped by gains in ba banks, miners and telco. >>> come up on today's program, we're going to be in paris after break to hear from the ceo of synofi. >> and the government warnings the an slowdown might be worse than expected. >>> also, daimler is running on flat tires. we'll talk to the ceo at 11:40 central european time as the carmaker expects no change in earnings for 2013. >> and at 11:30th cet we'll hear from the caps cans governor mark parkinson about whether lawmakers can bridge the divide over upcoming sequester talks. and after that we'll ahead out to brussels where jean-claude yunker says a deal on the budget could be sealed today. great, everybody made it. we all work remotely so this is a big deal, our first full team gathering! i wanted to call on a few people. ashley, ashley marshall... here. since we're often all on the move, ashley suggested we use fedex office to hold packages for us. great job. [ applause ] thank you. and on a protocol note, i'd like to talk to tim hill about his tendency to use all caps in emai

website post, where they telco eds to defend themselves against sexual assault.am loudly, run, and use passive resistance techniques like vomiting, you're naturing, telling your attacker you have a disease. after an uproar from students, the university apologized, saying that the list came from a rape defense class and is taken out of context. >> it was part of a really supplemental information intended for women who had completed a self-defense class on campus that we call r.a.d. >> now, r.a.d. stands for rape aggression defense and corporal lisa davinsky teaches the class and says she stands by these suggestions. >> if you can use anything to your advantage to say you are going to urinaturinate, that yo going to have a disease, that you are immenmenstruating. you could get a perpetrator that is disgusted by one of these things and that could mean that they walk away. >> there was run and scream, and then there was this list of here are all of the other things you can do to freak out of your attacker. >> if you find yourself pinned down, do everything you can. i

they'll do gaming, telco, whatever is necessary to keep them in the game. dell was at $9 and now it's $13 and change. that's a hardware and company. we came into the year thinking hardware was dead. hewlett-packard's been one of the great performers in the dow. and dell has been one of the best performers. >> that $9 level is important, because when we see this deal printed, whether it's $13.60, or $13.70, i'm not sure of the specific price, some investors are going to say, well, that's not enough. you're going to be reminded the unaffected stock price, $9.50, where would it go if the deal breaks. probably lower. >> and the pressure on the bonds, we've seen that already on the bond? >> yes. when the news of the talks was broken. >> so again, your reporting indicates any minute now we should be getting the price release? >> outlook waiting for the press release. it is my expectation that we will get it prior to the open of trading this morning. >> separate from dell, jim, somebody pointed out on january 3rd, you said the markets would not face political equi

so what we do is, cyber syncs, if there are 30 million people in the telco, we get 30 million peopleted into our software. >> where did you get your individual money to at least put the seed down to grow this thing into what it is today? >> i was really lucky in the music business, was able to save some money up. and was married for a year and i took all the money that we had in our nest egg and put it directly into the company. i'm used to eating ramen noodles and struggling here. >> was it okay with your spouse? >> she was totally okay with it. >> you have a very can-do attitude. from music to tech, and on that, you're launching a tv series, you're going to go out and look for entrepreneurs. talk me through what you feel about entrepreneurism in america now, and where we could go. >> i think entrepreneurship is the way to go. especially when you look at our generation. the job system really isn't there for us, the way we can generate wealth, not really talking about money, but opportunity, is to create that position for yourself. and then you're the engine that this economy needs.