Cramer on Applebee’s & A Fed Rate Cut in MAY

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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On todays Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com Cramer said that Bernanke’s verbage today is laying the groundwork for what may be a fed cut in May.  On Chrysler: The demand for autos is there and now the companies all want to worry about profits rather than market share.  You want to own these if they are going to all go for profits, but the best is the convertible notes and the debt.  Cramer said Johnson Controls (JCI) is one of the safer auto plays.  He thinks that goes through $100.00.

Cramer said Applebees (APPB) is overvalued.  It is up 14% and at a 23 P/E, so this is the sort of thing that can cause a legal backlash; and APPB isn’t as good as Darden and others to Cramer.  He doesn’t like the APPB sell and he thinks some of the backlash will end up in Congress. 

Cramer said that he disagrees with media about the Fed being a hawk and he thinks that Bernanke is signalling he is looking for an excuse to cut rates right now.  Cramer stressed: THERE WILL BE A CUT IN MAY.….That is why he said Accredited Home Lenders (LEND) and Countrywide (CFC) are going up when conventional wisdom would have you think they would go down on poor results. 

Here is what we noted yesterday ourselves about a potential APPB bid.

Jon C. Ogg
February 14,2007

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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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