Cramer on BloggingStocks: Citigroup's rescue makes things better


TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says now let's see the next moves from JPMorgan and Wells, because they're at a disadvantage.

How about this: We are better than we were Friday. That's right. Friday we left here knowing we had an oil-led futures-derived rally that simply wasn't sustainable because of the possibility Citigroup (NYSE: C) (Cramer's Take) would fail.

Today, we know it won't.

That's better.

Of course, the question is why not have every major bank do this, have every major bank involved. The answer might be that there are no common stock dividends and we know that the government is basically nationalizing Citigroup, which makes it impossible to compete.


Also, if you go over the presentation last Monday from Citigroup. you had no idea how much exposure they had. It was far more than you saw in the notes for certain.

But the situation is too big to worry about punishment.

We just need to see what the next moves for JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) (Cramer's Take) and Wells (NYSE: WFC) (Cramer's Take) are, because they are now heavily disadvantaged vs. the new Citigroup.

Jim Cramer is co-founder and chairman of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. At the time of publication, Cramer was long JPMorgan.

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