Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round
  Stock Picks for the Week of 6/2/08 
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Lightning Round Stock Picks and Comments for:
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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Lightning Round Stock Picks and Comments for:
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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Lightning Round Stock Picks and Comments for:
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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Lightning Round Stock Picks and Comments for:
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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Jim
Cramer's
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STOCK
SYMBOL

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price
that
day

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price
next
day

Full Company Name/Comments
(see comments above for each)

ZLC

21.38

21.20

Zale Corporation (ZLC)

ZLC -  I don't recommend short selling on this show... My take is, I don't want to own ZLC... I say don't buy...

WB

21.59

21.18

Wachovia Corp. (WB)

WB -  Thompson (former CEO) was about an inch away from getting on my Wall of Shame...  He was this close... but you know what they did to him, before I could put him on the Wall of Shame?... They axed him!  I think that board was so close to him, that things must be much worse than I think...  But, bottom line is, I still cannot recommend WB.  They paid $50 billion for Golden West... You say, wait a second, it was only $25.  No, they lost an additional $25 billion, when they gave the Sandlers all that money.  Shame on them! Shame on the board!  Shame on WB!

PCL

47.88

47.57

Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. (PCL)

PCL -  I've always liked PCL.  As a matter of fact, I wish that Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) would do that (well)...  WY, now under where I recommended it... It's starting to really be a house of pain for me.  I think PCL has got a nice dividend, got a nice business going.  It's a good yield play.  I'm not against it, I'm for it.

ABK

2.62

2.53

Ambac (ABK)

ABK -  Oh man!...  I am your realtor!  I would have kept you out of that house of pain!  That is one nauseating stock... (buzzer sounds)...  There is a stock, ABK, and there's another stock, MBIA Inc. (MBI)...  Could I be more bearish on them? And people still aren't listening.  My friend, buddy, pal... get off the island of pain...  I release you from ABK, and I recommend that you lower your taxes by taking the sell, sell, sell!...

MBI

6.04

5.84

MBIA Inc. (MBI)

See ABK comments above for:
MBI

EGY

7.35

7.53

Vaalco Energy Inc. (EGY)

EGY -  This is a company that, at one point, I regarded as dicey, because it's oil is off the west coast of Africa... often thought to be an area where maybe it is too difficult to get at, both politically and at depths...  I think that's wrong.  I've been recommending it since $4.  I reiterate that EGY's a buy, with oil at $127.  How about that reversal... 

HIMX

6.07

6.00

Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX)

HIMX -  Oh man... you come with that little speculative nonsense?...  For liquid crystal displays...  Well let me tell you something... you want liquid crystal displays, I'm going to give you one of the greatest American companies in new tech, old tech, and that is Corning Inc. (GLW*), which I own for my charitable trust... and I refuse to sell, because I think that there's more upside.  That's my LCD play.

GLW*

27.13

26.86

Corning Inc. (GLW*)

See HIMX comments above for:
GLW*

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Lightning Round Stock Picks and Comments for:
Friday, June 6th, 2008
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Cramer's
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SYMBOL

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price
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price
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INTU

29.08

na

Intuit Inc. (INTU)

INTU -  You know, tax software...it's okay...the stock has had such a run...you mind if I tell you to ring the register? I think that this is a company that, while it's very good, is too high.

NLY

17.20

na

Annaly Capital Management (NLY)

NLY -  Let me tell you something...NLY is run by Mike Farrell...it's an interesting situation, I'm not gonna go to nuts on it...why? Because it still needs to borrow money from brokers to make it all happen. I feel like that every time it has a run, he has to go do an equity offering and it's not helping the situation. I'm not a buyer of NLY...I was at one time and if anyone remembers I put the stocks on and said fooled me once...I like Mike Farrell but I'm not buying that company.

FSLR

251.69

na

First Solar (FSLR)

FSLR -  You know what, I like the stock very much, but I too, was chagrined by the massive insider selling by the CEO. Did I feel betrayed? No, everybody has the right to sell, but it did temper my enthusiasm for the stock...and, even though oil's at $137, you do not see me pounding the table because I wanna hear from the CEO why he sold so much stock. If he wants to come on and tell us we're fine, I will reiterate my buy.  Otherwise I found myself frankly a little chilled by that.

PCX

135.46

na

Patriot Coal (PCX)

PCX -  What a win... You know I like coal I have been recommending Peabody (BTU), this was actually a spin off...I have been recommending Arch Coal Inc. (ACI)... Should I have gotten behind Patriot? You know, when this stock was much, much lower I had a chance to look at it and I stuck with my tried and true (buzzer sounds)... because I know...I think Patriot is good...I still like BTU more than that...and Steve Leer from ACI is welcome on our show any time because pre- announces better quarter after quarter after quarter...

BTU

77.74

na

Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU)

See PCX comments above for:
BTU

HL

8.96

na

Hecla Mining Co. (HL)

HL -  No, no, no...of all the mining places and all the gin joints, that one is not the one I want...I'd rather see you in Agnico-Eagle (AEM), which everyone gave up on except for me, and is about to have a historic run to $80 from $69.

AEM

69.63

na

Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (AEM)

See HL comments above for:
AEM

Price target:  $80.00

V

83.65

na

Visa Inc. (V)

V -  Actually MasterCard is a little cheaper, that's why I've been recommending Mastercard...people don't want to buy a $300 stock...but I like Mastercard more than V, I like them both though.

MA

295.73

na

Mastercard (MA)

See V comments above for:
MA

TC

20.47

na

Thompson Creek Metals (TC)

TC -  It's Molybdenum and I like Molybdenum very much. My big, big worry with Molybdenum is that the metals that I like the most right now are copper, and I'd rather have copper plays than Molybdenum plays right now... They're giving me the hook...

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