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What to Buy in the Dow

By Jim Cramer

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When I arrived at my worst-case view that the Dow could reach 5320, my first reaction wasn't, "Look out below." It was more like, "Wait a second, how much I would like to buy these stocks at those levels?" Then I started thinking, "What do I do if it gets there and I am not in? Will it stay down there? Is it right to avoid a market that's cut by almost two-thirds in such a short period of time when some companies with really good earnings power might be selling at prices that we might never see again?" But which ones? Certainly not the under-$5 crowd -- Alcoa, Bank of America and Citigroup. Pass on ABC because you have to bet that Citigroup isn't AIG, that Alcoa isn't the old Asarco and that Bank of America can't stanch the bleeding caused by Tim Geithner's indecision, which is...

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