Cramer Has Changed His Stance on Tech

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The body language was coming clearer for a change of heart in tech from Cramer on his videos and on his shows, but when you watch today’s "Wall Street Confidential" on TheStreet.com you will not have any doubt that he is no longer behind tech as a whole.

Rackable (RACK) is seasonality of tech and it says you have to make some sells in tech stocks now without waiting for the next one.  Cramer said he doesn’t know why people were buying Intel (INTC) and he didn’t want to be there ahead of the numbers.  Cramer says it cannot be owned right now.

Cramer thinks tech can still outperform in 2007, but this part of the annual calendar is where technology starts to fall off.  He still likes H-P (HPQ).  He thinks on Cisco (CSCO) that if the stock pulls back to $25 or $26 on downgrades then you can look at it.

Cramer said he doesn’t care on Apple (AAPL) about the quarter: If it’s down then it’s a gift and if not then you stay owning it.  Cramer thinks Vista is showing that it won’t carry all the tech groups like it seemed.  Lighten up on EMC (EMC).

The bull market is still in financials and JPMorgan (JPM) was a buy.  Capital One (COF) is one of the most hated names around right now.

You can take profits on airline stocks and then you can buy them again.  He still likes UPS (UPS) and transports on pullbacks.

Cramer has more picks on his video segment, but this sure sounds he has definitely changed his stance on tech as an entire group.  Now he’s getting much more selective in the sector.

Jon C. Ogg
January 17, 2007

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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