Cramer’s New Play For $1,600 Gold (AEM)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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Jim Cramer came out on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, predicting huge gains in gold and he thinks that the current sub-$1,000 per ounce prices may go to $1,600 per ounce.  He started talking about Basketball’s March Madness and a "Sweet 16" his "sweet 16" targets all revolve around "$16" for commodity prices.

Cramer thinks that most of these gold companies have no risk to earnings with prices rising higher and higher.  His new top pick in the gold sector for new buyers that haven’t bought a gold stock is Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (NYSE: AEM).  He noted that it is growing production and is is the second lowest cost producer.  It also has a small uranium twist.  We’d note that is different than his "value pick" in gold he gave in early January, and that pick is actually up almost by 50% after a huge move today.  He recently featured Agnico’s CEO on CNBC, and said he was unprepared for how bullish he felt.

If you prefer a diversified strategy in gold or other commodities, we just gave a full list of our ETF and fund universe as several new gold-related trading instruments have been formed.

Cramer also talked up agriculture yet again, but he did give a new pick.  He’s also got a new pick to win from natural gas.

Jon C. Ogg
March 3, 2008

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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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