now they want to say that the little cyprus banks, bigger than cyprus itself, but the bigger cyprus bailout that taxes depositors is a line in the sand to cause a meltdown like synergy, they love irony. i'm telling you right here, right now, it won't. it didn't cause one last monday when people were unprepared for it then and it won't cause one this monday when people are prepared for it. what a terrible bailout it is. bye, bye, bye. i know everything pails in comparison to cyprus, but earnings did make or break stocks with nike to the upside and the fantastic quarter last night or oracle to the downside when it got crushed for a hideous quarter known for the horrendous number that is the company delivered. you know what? we'll have to pay close attention to earnings, even with cyprus, and that leaves us with dollar general, dg. it reports monday. last time dg spoke the company spoke about making less money per sale, that's the gross margin thing, and it was obliterated. the stock is in a comeback nicely above the horrific conference call we had last time. and that's the theme of this marke

he didn't think all of that much about the cyprus story. more importantly, he was hoping we wouldn't make too of it on this show because it would blow over since cyprus was a special case that couldn't easily be extrapolated and maybe even rally a little. then i went home after having some breakfast and i set out to study the charts and more on this later and settled in for serious ncaa bracketology while watching the canes play the tar heels. i tried to stay focused on march madness but i began to get bombarded by emails from bears worldwide -- [ shots fired ] brown bears, kodiaks, even koalas, telling me, this is it, jim, this is the big kahuna that i was being way too glib about the confiscation scheme that would rock my world. i knew not to dismiss the darn cyprus situation. i actually bothered to argue back, silly me. first i offered the standard polite rebuttals that cyprus is a dot on a map, best known for being a favorite island of churchill's as well as for its key role in russian money laundering. i protested that this moronic pla

>> caller: cy, cyprus semiconductor. >> i think cyprus' time is here. with a terrific yield and tj buying the heck out of the stock, i want to buy it with him! i'm a buyer of cy. now tim in california. tim. >> caller: hey, cramer, it's tim in antioch, california. >> i had a feeling. what's up, tim? >> caller: just want to know about stc. lots of upward momentum in the last six months, wondering if they can sustain. should i buy, hold or sell? >> you know what, that stock is too cheap to sell, down 10% for the year. i am more inclined to be a buyer! farr in california. farr! >> caller: hello. cramer, a pleasure to be on your show. a big boo-yah to you from los angeles, california. >> oh, nice. what's going on? >> caller: i wanted to know what you think about e-trade. >> e-trade is fine. but i got blackrock getting slammed and i'm a buyer of blackrock, my trust, actionalertsplus.com owns it. jeff in new jersey. jeff. >> caller: hi, jim. how are you? happy eighth anniversary. >> thank you very much, jeff. how are you doing? >> caller: great, great. i'm loo

europeans will join them after the cyprus debacle. europe never fails to hurt our markets initially. the great ceos never seem to fail to inspire us days later. it will remain the pattern as long as the economy keeps growing and it will be the pattern as far as the eye can see. i want to take callers now. i did a mess with the cheerios boxes here. mark in new hampshire. >> caller: jim, how are you? >> i hurt my back on saturday. >> caller: boo-yah, brother. i've got a question for you. i own monster. i did really well. was up by 200%. i didn't sell it like an idiot. now it's down and should i dump it down because of the heart attacks and last week's study about the heart conditions, all that good stuff? i don't know if i should dump it, even though i'm up a little bit and take that and maybe buy something else to try to get my position down. >> first of all, you're too hard on yourself. when you say you're an idiot, that's the way i talk. don't be like me. you're going to have to take medicine. here's the problem. there have been a co

i'll take a pass on that, miley cyprus. second, hertz, the stock, has shown it's able to shrug off major selling pressure. march 6th, a 60.1 million secondary offering. private equity shareholders used to catch it up, that's on top of a 50 million share secondary in december for the same reason. despite big secondaries, the stock has worked and now the private equity players selling and own just 50 million shares -- that is a small amount when you consider what's absorbed. either the secondaries are over or there is one guy left, i think it's bullish the market has been able to absorb the big slugs of stock and more bullish this source of selling pressure is over or nearly over. so hertz is more growth, courtesy of its $1.50 catalyst and won't be held back by big secondaries longer. the stock trades at a discount to avis. yes, avis doesn't work as hard as hertz. hertz sells for 11.2 times earnings while avis 12 times. two years ago hertz sold for 19 times earnings. why don't we split the difference. you get a $28.35 stock,

although, many will act like it tomorrow with eyes on cyprus. so when they are selling cyprus, look at costco, look at radian, look at generous mills and pick up some pinnacle foods. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up -- positive prognosis? all week cramer's looking at the best in biotech. it's the companies on the cutting edge of medical science. tonight fda approval for a new treatment sent this stock soaring today. but is it headed even higher? >>> and later, on the button, from calvin to tommy, the stock of clothing kingpin pvh was strutting its stuff but has recently come off its highs. should you treat this pullback as the sale of the century? don't move, cramer's earnings exclusive with its ceo is just ahead. all coming up on "mad money." don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> all week i've been reminiscing about the glory days of big ph

i was on the street signs with brian and mandy and an intelligent guy thought he cyprus would be the next lehman brothers. i don't think it will. i don't think bernanke thinks it will either but the pessimistic gentleman who made the analogy was not alone. the pending cyprus collapse would do a ton of damage and bernanke doesn't need to wager that it's wrong. we have nasty sales news from two of the most important companies, caterpillar and fedex. caterpillar reported that the machinery sales dropped. and that's a bone chiller. and fedex dropped about 7%. so that if you absolutely positively have to have something delivered overnight so now you choose united parcel. this is an extremely worrisome fact. and then after the bell, oracle, th the technology company got hammered. that's a ferocious sign. shipping, earth moving, these are gigantic technology. and of course, just three weeks ago we heard when the sequester kicks off the economy is going to down shift as hundreds of thousands of people are going to be laid off. i mean, how many times have we heard that? in two weeks the shutd

ultimately cyprus won't matter to our markets. that might be further away than we would like. in the interim a cypriot collapse will bring out sellers, betting there may be a near-term solution because people feel this is all just a haggling back and forth before we get the real thing. i don't know. maybe it isn't. why don't we wait to see how it plays out? maybe it's brinkmanship and it fails and somebody blinks and it's bad. two, our president has been really silent since saying the budget sequester will produce very big lay-offs and a weakened economy. he's gone radio silent. we know next week that will be the week when the president will most likely use his podium to talk about how horrible sequestration will be, because it kicks in at the end of the month. perhaps the excellent jobless numbers we got this morning will be the last good one if it's as bad as obama scares us into thinking it is. we know that local and state governments are cutting back. that's not positive. finally, there is this missed quarter evidence. federal express did blow up. it was not a good number.

of the various cliffs and payroll taxes and sequesters in italian french and spanish and greek and cyprus that turn out to not have any real impact on the stocks you own and you sold them because of it. after a while you just don't feel like selling anything. that's how stocks do end up going higher, lack of natural supply, supply that has been there for more than a decade. these buyers keep waiting for the pullback, right? but it gets harder to wait. i have no doubt that seller's remorse won't last forever. hey, look, there will come a moment where once again you'll be furious you held on. heck, it could be tomorrow. i'm sure the sell it man, go away crowd are not planning on having any seller's remorse. i know people who bought dick's on friday before it fell $5.49. today, they got a bad case of buyer's remorse. but the bottom line, it's real clear. it's a new development when you sell a stock and see it move up immediately. not just a little. we haven't felt seller's remorse since the '90s. it sure is here now, though. now it's infected the mind of all the investors who are so sick of

second, no sooner than we have finished the hideous cyprus bail-in we are about to hear, i'm not kidding, i did not make this up about the collapsing banking system of a whole other country you know nothing about. slovenia. i googled slovenia to find its capital, and it's much tougher to pronounce than nicosia. all right. ljubjiana -- like ll cool j., l-j-a. trust me, it is going to be rolling off of everybody's tongue just a few weeks from now. same deal as these other ne'er-do-well countries, banking system run amuck, bad loans up the sava, which happens to be the largest river in the central european country. finally, here's the one you're going to hear as early as monday. i think i actually heard it today but i just had to tune it out because it's too repulsive. sell in april and go away. and that's to get ahead of the sell in may and go away crowd. seems like remember how christmas comes even earlier every year, it's four weeks before thanksgiving, halloween, well selling in fear of may, a tough month,comes earlier every year. nobody seems to care that since 1950, april's been the b