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cnbc contributor. welcome back to "mad money." >> good to be here. >> before you sit down, are you @johnsteinberg who tweeted onuary 2nd i'm watching "mad money," told her jim cramer is the smartest guy in stocks. she says, the button guy, buy, sell, roar. >> yeah. >> oh. >> go ahead. >> where's buy? she wanted me to hit "buy." she'll love this. this is for you. >> buy, buy, buy! >> let's go back to work. a guy's nice enough to do a little tweeting of the show. >> she watches it every night with me. >> when i talk about my kids. what they tell me is, look, dad, we netflix. >> yes. >> we amazon. we google. what are we going to do next? >> i think what's amazing is how few pure play stocks are being traded right now about how we live our lives. there's yelp, there's zillow. >> we yelp. >> why not everything else? soon we're going to uuber for our cars, ever note our notes, these are transformative to how we're living our lives. we need people to buy these stocks. >> when we speak of social, mobile and cloud, we think the ones with all three are the most powerful. if you look in your crystal ball. i know it may no

cnbc contributor. welcome back to "mad money." >> good to be here. >> before you sit down, are you @johnsteinberg who tweeted onnd i'm watching "mad money," told her jim cramer is the smartest guy in stocks. she says, the button guy, buy, sell, roar. >> yeah. >> oh. >> go ahead. >> where's buy? she wanted me to hit "buy." she'll love this. this is for you. >> buy, buy, buy! >> let's go back to work. a guy's nice enough to do a little tweeting of the show. >> she watches it every night with me. >> when i talk about my kids. what they tell me is, look, dad, we netflix. >> yes. >> we amazon. we google. what are we going to do next? >> i think what's amazing is how few pure play stocks are being traded right now about how we live our lives. there's yelp zillow. >> we yelp. >> why not everything else? soon we're going to uuber for our cars ever note our notes, these are transformative to how we're living our lives. we need people to buy these stocks. >> when we speak of social, mobile and cloud, we think the ones with all three are the most powerful. if you look in your crystal ball. i know it may not happen in 2014

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. >>> on the first trading day of 2014, after a year where the dow jones industrial average surged almost 30% with dividends, i think it's worth figuring out how much higher the stocks in this index can travel over the next 12 months. and because i believe we're returning to a market that's terrific for stock pickers. ♪ hallelujah >> something i explained in my just released book, "get rich carefully," we are going bottoms up here, analyzing all 30 names in the dow, one stock at a time. 30 of the most important companies in the market in one show. it's good to be back! let's take them down. first there's american express, a stock i own for my charitable trust which you can follow along with. i don't know, i thought it just got too high. i have to tell you while i think american express is short term overvalued and vulnerable, the stock is loved to death. i think it will stay that way throughout the last half of 2014. so can amex rally after it cools its heels a

on valuation is a dangerous game to play. >> listen. i'm a stock picker. i'm short tesla. >> tell white house you think won that debate. tweet us at cnbc fast money, #bull or #bear. stay with the autos here. stephanie link made a great call on gm's -- on gm back in december. let's listen to that. >> i think next year that gm is going to take share from ford. they also have very good exposure to china, to europe. that's the part of the auto cycle that i like. i also think you're going to see a dividend increase. we're buying into that. >> bingo. >> yeah. we got the dividend increase and cautious guidance from the new ceo since stock sold off. i think it was a buy here. restrictive in the shares but we will buy it when we can and we will next week. i think the coe is conservative and being conservative with her european pricing assumptions. going to see better volumes. expecting pricing ting to fall. conservative just given where we are in this cycle. and i think in the u.s. they've got so many new products and a great lineup in trucks but she sees higher launch costs. maybe not the margin upside. i think if you remember in 2013 the comp

on twitter. have a question, tweet cramer. send jim an e-mail to mad money at cnbc.com. or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yeah. everybody knows that. did you know there is an oldest trick in the book? what? trick number one. look-est over there. ha ha. made-est thou look. so end-eth the trick. hey.... yes.... geico. fifteen minutes could save you... well, you know. >>> we're standing in the middle of a brand-new video game console cycle. the stocks of the video game makers don't seem to reflect the strength, not in the least, even though new consoles always mean boost in game sales over the next couple of years. some of that is because gamestop just imploded and so did best buy. but in both of these cases the stocks had gotten too high after repeated analyst upgrades. however, i don't think the video game maker sure penalized because of the weakness in gamestop and best buy. these days half of all spending takes place over the internet where you can download the game right to your computer or console. why g

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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. >>> even a difficult moment like this one where everyone seems terrified about the global economy, please, let's not get too despondent, because there are still high-quality companies out there that are executing fabulously and the stocks of those companies are holding up better than the rest of the market, as they should. consider cramer fave honeywell, makes everything from aerospace components to energy saving climate control systems, security equipment, turbo chargers that can dramatically increase your car's gas mileage. last friday, reported the results were darn good. ended up getting lost in the shuffle of the market's hideous selloff. company delivered strong headline numbers, 2-cent earnings beat with higher than expected revenues. but the really impressive number was honeywell's organic revenue growth, up 5%, that's much higher than management anticipated. on top of that, the transportation business where they sell those turbochargers for cars and

on twitter. have a question, tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at i-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> you want to get a terrific read on the global economy, you can't go wrong by listening to alcoa's conference call, captained by the ceo and chairman of a company that has its fingers in everything from turbines to soda cans. during the fourth quarter when industrials surged, alcoa was the best-performing stock in the s&p 500, up 28% in just three months. but it's giving up some of those gains this evening, as the company posted a 2 cent earnings on a 6 cent basis, although its revenues did come in higher than expected, despite a 7% decline in the prices of aluminum. the stock may be weak, but there are some real positives. alcoa's business saw a 27% year over year increase in after-tax operating income. the company still has a ton of cash. the balance sheet hasn't been this good since 2006. the company at last put behind its foreign corrupt practice act violation, although not before agreeing to a settlement it will pay out over the next several years' ti

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. weights. four hours on the slopes. and two hours doing this stuff. which leaves me approximately two minutes to get my banking done. so i use the citi mobile app to quickly check my accounts and pay my bills. which leaves me about five seconds to kick back. that was nice. bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. citi, with you every step of the way. >>> even a difficult moment like this one where everyone seems terrified about the global economy, please, let's not get too despondent, there are high-quality companies out there that are executing fabulously and the stocks of those companies are holding up better than the rest of the market as they should. consider cramer fave honeywell, everything from aerospace components to energy saving climate control systems, turbo chargers that can dramatically increase your car's gas mileage. last friday, reported the results were darn good. ended up getting lost in the shuffle of the market's hideous selloff.

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on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer, #madtweets. e-mail madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> you know there are some stories that i keep coming back to over and over again on the show. i do that for a reason. because when you find a major theme that could be a huge multi-year money maker, you want to stick with it. that's how you make the biggest gains, not trading in and out. that's why i come back to the domestic oil and gas renaissance. we're sitting on oceans of oil and more particularly natural gas in this country. one important part of this theme is that we literally have more nat gas than we know what to do with. overseas, natural gas prices are much higher. you have to build big facilities to convert it to a liquefied natural gas form. that's why i'm a big backer of lng. cheniere has two lng export projects and will be completed from 2015 to 2017, and an earlier stage project in corpus christi, texas. you've got cheniere energy partners with a six percent yield. then last month cqh came public. cheniere energy rallied 60% in the last 7 m

one. >> you have to find risk with an option trade as opposed to common stock because this thing is getting run over. >> let's find out who you think won the we debate. tweet us at cnbcast money use #bull or #bear and we'll give you the results at the end of the show. >>> natural gas today sending prices up almost 2%. for more on that we go to jackie de deangeles. >> heating and the cold weather has taken that gas demand to an all-time high. thats a spiked the price. brian soot land at the cme, will more cold weather ahead keep this rally alive in natgas? >> we'll soon find out. look at the temperatures going into this weekend. especially in chicago. calling for rain this weekend. and next week temperatures should be actually be higher above average normal temperatures. so we'll see if this cold weather continues to push it. i worry that natgas has has a nice run, up 23% since november first. we saw a we tremendous drop in inventories. i wonder if selling pressure is coming in we drop below 425 next week. >> jim, do you agree with that? traders are telling me five, six bucks in the forecast but it doesn't look like it's going to materialize at this point. >> natgas h

on our website? "the hot list" is up next. we want to know if you think good looking ceos generate better returns? tweet us @cnbcom taking on a hoard of college boys. who do you think won this brawl? >>> welcome back down here we're bracing for an arctic blast from canada this weekend. the web site hotter than ever alan, what's topping the hot list? >> i'm getting a blast of heat here taking a look at how customers are paying the price for the target breach. when we put it up we immediately got a spike alert on it. that sort of tells us hey, very hot story with readers right now. basically, she took a look you know for debit cards banks are on the hook for that. so what do they do? they start drawing back on what customers do with debit cards, all of a sudden people find they can't use debit cards to pay bills. kayla did a great job on that story. people are eating it up. at this point i looked it up. there is 1200 people a minute just looking at it. >> wow. >> big story. we also had another one doing real good all day, all right, the imf came out with their paper, the big names in economic circles, and their pa

on twitter. have a question, tweet cramer #madtweets. send jim an e-mail or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> welcome back to a bizarrely special "mad money," where i'm trying to teach you life lessons in investing from my life. in investing from my life. while i am not a dollar sign represented by a man or a stock symbol for that matter, ticker jim, i have stumbled around the stock market long enough in life to learn a thing or two, and tonight you're getting some of that wisdom from the school of hard knocks. don't you love it at the beginning of a pro football game where the player says his name and the name of the school and some say the school of hard knocks. you're getting the on tv version right here, right now. we covered how i first got involved, my fourth grade obsession with keeping a ledger to track stocks, and then ultimately to learn how they trade through the greatest game on earth. no, it wasn't monopoly. it was "stocks and bonds." but with its little certificates and its game boards, and its cards, it tells you about news and how

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on cnbc. thank you. >>> you just tweeted, well off the lows. discretionary names. you have to shake your head at how chipotle is doing today. >> cutting 15% of the workforce during acquisition. that stock is up big. one of the leaders in the marth today. of course, you have chevron, walmart leading the dow lower. down 110 points on the day. >> as cramer pointed out this morning, if you're a diehard bear, a lot of the names, the transports, for example, are not letting you in. that's one of the things he said. i wish they would come in so you could start to nibble but that's not happening. it's a good dynamic for the bulls. scott wapner will have more on this in the next hour. >> nice move off the lows for sure. but no denying the fact if people are fleeing equity funds, whether it's here in the united states or in emerging markets and if you're bullish the market, carl, you better hope that this as goes january so goes the rest of the year thing doesn't hold because we're looking at a negative january for the first time in a few years. >> yeah.

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