Beware the Doomsday Hype Over Cyprus Bank Crisis + MORE

By SA Editor Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the Lightning Round session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV Program, Monday March 18.Bullish Calls:
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ): “I think JNJ is fabulous company with a new CEO. JNJ is putting the past behind it. They made a lot of mistakes. I hope it goes down, because I want to pull the trigger…

"I wish I had invested in China before it slowed down," an investor says in frustration.
I hear this all the time.
And it's not just China. You could plug in any security that's grown exponentially in a short period of time and I've heard someone complain about missing it. Too many investors get caught looking at growth in the rear-view mirror…

At our 15th Annual Investment U Conference in St. Petersburg last week, I spoke to the few hundred people in attendance about “How to Lose Money and Miss Opportunities.” For some reason, I was the only presenter who chose to speak on this topic. So I had the field all to myself.
Here are just a few of the techniques I described:

Run your portfolio based on someone’s economic forecast…

Unfortunately, the plan sponsors where I work aren’t the people who allocate budget for expenses for the plan; those that hold the purse strings don’t even work in the US.

Taking Another Tour With This Fast Food Company

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Huntington Exceeds $4 Billion Lending Commitment to Small Businesses in the Midwest

More than 24,000 small businesses helped

COLUMBUS, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Huntington Bank (NASDAQ: HBAN; www.huntington.com) announced today that it has exceeded its 2010 $4 billion lending commitment to small businesses in six states…

March 18 (Bloomberg) — For the first time, Wall Street’s
biggest credit brokers are using exchange-traded funds as a way
to wager that junk bonds are overvalued. Bloomberg Radio’s
Catherine Cowdery reports on Exchange Traded Funds.

Allow me to channel Claude Rains and state that I am shocked — shocked! — that there are hysterics in the financial media over the Cyprus bank crisis.
Who’da thunk it?
Yes, Cypriots have been racing to ATMs to pull out money lest they suffer a pending “levy” on deposits. Yes, this is another sign that troubled eurozone banks remain in deep trouble thanks to the overhanging debt crisis in the region…