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O resultado foi ... um short squeeze ontem nas financeiras que as fez subir bem
Dubai and sell later ...
Jim Cramer explica:
O resultado foi ... um short squeeze ontem nas financeiras que as fez subir bem

Dubai and sell later ...
Jim Cramer explica:
Cramer on BloggingStocks: Dubai story lacks legs
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says Dubai was blown out of proportion -- the system is now stronger and can handle it.
So I'm at the Apple store last night, the one I couldn't get into over the weekend because it was too crowded, and a guy stops and asks me, "Hey, how come you didn't talk about Dubai tonight?"
I shoot back, "'Cause I can't make any money off it." Yeah, he says, "but aren't we going to lose a lot of money off of it?"
To which I ask, "Tell me how Dubai's going to affect tomorrow's trading if it was yesterday's story? The show's worried about tomorrow, not today."
As painful as it might seem to those who wanted to use Dubai as still one more pillar to the bear edifice, the story just doesn't have legs. It was sexy -- Middle Eastern bubble blown up. It has global intrigue. Will the UAE bail them out? Will fundamentalist politics play a role?
It had oil implications -- will the other states pump more to make up for their oil-impoverished friends? Will Dubai bring down JPMorgan Chase (JPM) (Cramer's Take) and Goldman Sachs (GS) (Cramer's Take) the way it seems to be bringing down Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) (Cramer's Take)?
The sizzle, though, didn't have a lot of steak to it. Another borrower blows up; yawn. Another bad loan by RBS; those guys should have been nationalized. Another black hole that Citigroup (C) (Cramer's Take) walked into.
But that's about it.
I know that there can be some reverberations just like in an earthquake. Some post-quake tremors. Aftershocks. But this quake itself was a 5 on the Richter scale and the aftershocks won't be 6s or 7s.
However, here is what Dubai did do, and it is something that I should have talked about last night: It brought out a whole new wave of short-sellers who bought December puts like mad and shorted tons of stocks, everything from the big infrastructure and machinery plays to the oils and the banks, notably Goldman Sachs which has done a lot of business in Dubai.
When it became clear by late afternoon that the banks were in the clear you saw the short-covering rally in the banks finally develop -- the first one in ages.
I think it continues today.
Once again, we got an event that was blown out of proportion because the system is now stronger than it was and can handle it. Once again we got the big shorts that so many moves back up hitch a ride on.