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Some people want to make friends. I just want to make you money. My job is not just to entertain you, but to educate to teach. So call me at 1-800-743, Simi-Sweet or leave me at Jim Kramer. Today, we got obliterated early on. But as the afternoon proceeded, the averages rallied hard as oil fell, because the Iranian

seemed to be inclined to back a two-week truce broken by Pakistan, which is why the

Dow ultimately finished down just 85 points, S-be-inched up 0.08 percent, and the NASDAQ

advanced 0.10%.

It was an astounding comeback.

But not broad. That was easy.

Exciting, but lasting, that I'm not sure about. It's, well, let's just say, it was a real deal would have sent us much higher. But all I can tell you is some stocks are no longer in trouble,

but many are. How do I know this?

Because I speak the language of stocks. And I've got to tell you, I don't like what I've been hearing.

The President of the United States shouldn't like it either. Of course, you could say that he has his hands full trying to figure out if he should destroy a civilization.

His word's not mine.

I hope the situation cools down personally, because if the president does go all medieval in Iran, well, that would do incredible damage to the world, our economy. That's what the

stock market has been saying, right? We, the media, focus on all sorts of data, don't we? For example,

this morning, the Atlanta Fed,

repostal of all things, GDP, cut their growth forecast for the economy from 1.6% to 1.3%. That's a pretty

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