Merkel: can't allow Greece to suffer Lehman's fate Reuters - Paul Carrel, Sarah Marsh - ‎1 hour ago‎ "...not until we suck it dry" - she added covering the mic.
EUR/USD futures down nearly 100 pips after the 4:15 close !!! Tried shorting this afternoon...boy was that dumb. Made some $$$ this morning however.
Cramer says to use weakness in US markets due to Europe defaults to go long stocks... hmmmmmmmmm Cramer on Europe: Prepare for âOutright Defaultsâ cnbc.com | April 28, 2010 | 08:48 PM EDT From here on in, when it comes to the PIIGS â Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain â you must presume the worst: âOutright defaults,â Cramer said Wednesday. These countriesâ finances are on deathâs door, and it wonât be long before we get the equivalent of bond funerals for Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland and a âshotgun Italian wedding,â Cramer said. He urged viewers dig through their portfolios to see which of their stocks would be affected. Use todayâs positive close â up 53 points in the Dow and 0.6% in the S&P 500 â to take profits. Take the chance to cash out if you think Europeâs debt woes will directly impact US equities, the US economy and at least the near-term futures of our companies. And thereâs little doubt that more news is on itâs way, given the Spain downgrade we saw this morning. But is that what Cramerâs going to do? Nope. He refuses to panic over Europe. Sure, the market will drop every time we get more bad news from across the Atlantic, but keep this in mind: The market wonât stay down for long when we get good news at home. Just consider how stocks rebounded after the Federal Reserveâs benign statements this afternoon. What you have to do, Cramer said, is ask yourself, Ronald Reagan style, if the companies you own are better off than three years ago. Among the Dow 30, 23 sure are. Only four are doing worse. Of the remaining three, two are pushes, Cramer said, and then thereâs General Electric [ GS 157.01 +3.97 (+2.59%) ], which he wonât comment on because itâs the parent company of CNBC. Look, weâve gotten largely positive pronouncements from everybody from AT&T [ T 25.91 -0.04 (-0.15%) ] and Boeing [ BA 72.37 -0.11 (-0.15%) ] to JPMorgan Chase [ JPM 43.46 +1.05 (+2.48%) ] to Intel [ INTC 23.26 -0.09 (-0.39%) ]. AT&Tâs seeing growth thanks to Appleâs [ AAPL 261.60 -0.44 (-0.17%) ] iPhone, Boeingâs 787 Dreamliner finally took flight, JPMorganâs now the countryâs premier bank, and Intelâs riding a wave of renewed corporate and consumer spending. And none of this has anything to do with Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece or Spain. âI think theyâre all buys on PIIGS weakness,â Cramer said of the aforementioned stocks, adding that a host of others, including techs like Juniper Networks as well as Ford, are doing great, too. So rather than using Europeâs troubles as an excuse to cash out, Cramer thinks you should buy in. As long as you rid your portfolio of any exposure to that continent, then youâre ready for any worst-case scenario. And imagine how well positioned you are if things work out for the better, meaning they donât default and we go much higher. âWonders never cease in this market,â Cramer said.
Of course the bailouts are coming, this problem will be resolved twice as quick as the one the US had just last year. There is no such thing as a financial crisis, everything is fixed with ease in today's time.