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Run for the Banks

By Jim Cramer

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 You can't kill these bank stocks. Prime example: Capital One. How worried can we really be about the credit card woes ahead if Capital One can keep rallying after a double and after I hammered it hard on "Stop Trading" yesterday? That's remarkable given that someone as strong as Meredith Whitney has said this is the single biggest problem out there -- even bigger than commercial real estate, the other bugaboo. Or Bank of America: Notice that this one has gone from worst to first, which simply makes any fundraising incredibly easy. State Street? I don't even know how that one stays independent. It's too good a franchise. Morgan Stanley should buy it! Fifth Third and Huntington are totally right after being very wrong because they do not need to merge. They will have breathing room. Wells Fargo? How much will they let us buy? Goldman Sachs? Perhaps the...

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