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Here's a Game Plan for the Decimated Market

By Jim Cramer

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Understand that if you are buying, you are looking at a host of companies that are trading around cash. That takes homework, but they are available. You have to expect that interest rates are going through the floor, so if you can find a self-financing company, one that is a food bank that yields an attractive 4% -- here I am talking about Altria, Kraft, H.J. Heinz -- you could take in a 25% position right here, as the risk/reward has changed. Unilever stands out here, and Coke is almost there. You can make a case to begin to buy some cyclical with 4%-5%, Nucor and Freeport-McMoRan, but there you can only by a beginning position, as they are not self-financing, because in a prolonged recession they are going to have to reach down deep for that dividend. Chevron qualifies at 4.57%, and BP is just...

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