then reach a conclusion about the direction that awaits us. first let me give you the bare case because that is most salient right now, because until this morning, the bear case had suddenly come to the front. the durable goods numbers, further reduction in gross domestic product. they all pointto -- diverse is -- as well as what we now regard as a pathetic apple iphone. you can see why people would be petrified about the earnings. you would like to think this is all an am nomly if you're bullish. and the economy has a little rough patch before it accelerates again. what happens if this is the rough patch that causes companies to slam on the brakes, this is no longer a fiscal cliff but a fiscal retaining wall. when you see that -- we have gone from thinking we can jump the fiscal cliff to thinking how can we slow business spending so that the collision won't destroy us? it's not just the u.s. that was a drag. china, there's a big hate on china right now. china is big halt. no. big mall cat no cattle. the worst downturn in two months is more representative of what's happening because there is no unity between the rich and poor nations. don't they show that there's no real hope for fis rcal reform i that war torn country. today's action, it's phony. me and many portfolio managers buy stocks and move them to the end of the quarter to get a little gain there. the conclusion, if this were monday coming up, a new month, a new quarter, you would have seen this entire markup window dressing period, the deal, and we were right back into that downturn that just began and has much further to go. these are some real heavy negatives that could turn even the most optimistic of the bulls into bears. let's take a peek to the bullish side. just when we were starting to be afraid of what's going on in europe despite the rise, offering exactly what the richer companies like germany want to do to hold up their end of the deal. second the chinese market, it rallied hard last night and that could be a sign that we're about to get more stimulus in everyone's favorite come mist country. today general electric joined the con tcontingent of companie. general electric the former parent company of this network, it's particularly heartening about china, and they raise questions about maybe we are being too gloomy about the country's foration. third our fiscal retaining wall still beckons. they rallied hard today, these moves could be a sign that all is not lost. plus we got some high profile number boosts from brokerage houses from bank and home builders. you know what you don't get earnings estimate -- as far as those managers that want to lock in performance, i think there's far more managers that want to gain performance by buying the weakness. there are money managers that want to lock in gains. we know that the -- do you think that they would be willing to lock in a perspective defeat against the benchmark, when we're not even in the fourth quarter yet, there simply aren't enough winning managers that can afford to lock in a game. this is how apple was able to break its fall. perhaps if you get so many money managers still done on it. and the company's are in any orders for the iphone and are going to have such wait list. i don't know how poorly the launch is actually going. we do know that apple is a stinker. but if it's so bad, why do so many people want the phone? where do i come out? my take, i think this rally is not predicated on anything in the u.s. in order for this move to continue, we actually need an end game in europe and a stimulus in china. so my bottom line, if we don't get real positives in europe and china, we're not done going downing. but if we do get those from those huge trading partners, that will offset the fiscal retaining wall that we will remain hitting. lorraine in my home state of new jersey. >> caller: yes. >> hey, lorraine, what's up? >> i'm calling about econo. >> a lot of peopl are on the fence as to whether natural gas is actually done going down, and i am not concerned about the -- i think the f rrk acing stories are overdone. canada had a very good statement today talking about it. i think the issue in canada is that you've got to have natural gas. i need to go to justin in indiana. justin. >> caller: boo-yah jim, it's justin. i want to know what is your thought about these home builders going higher? >> every time a home builder has a dramat-- i want to own it. paul in tennessee. paul? >> caller: hey, jim i was just wanting to call and ask you about metro pcs, especially with the most recent rumors about industry consolidation. i was wondering what your thoughts were. >> you have have to be sprint to buy them, or t-mobile. i thont don't think either is going to buy them. you should be trimming positions that i don't like on the fund mbls and that's how i recommend stocks, is the fundamentals, not rumors. the pool haul is definitely in china's court, if they come out with positive news, they could go higher, remember, you always have to look at stocks from both sides now. coming up, rapid results or is sure technology a leader in diagnostic tech proproducts. cramer is getting instability answers on this new opportunity in biotech when he talks to the company's ceo next. and rising in the east, the headlines hit, the market rallies, but which talks are actually worth owning in china. . plus answering the call. telco cloud play 8 by 8 gave us a ring and cramer is all rears when the company's ceo gets in the hot seat, all cominging up on "mad money." >> don't misa second of "mad money." follow at jim cramer at twitter. have a question, tweet cramer, hash tag mad tweets, send jim an e-mail at "mad money" at cnbc.com. or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something in head to madmoney.cnbc.com. how did i get here? 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>> response from retailers has been extraordinarily positive. the retailers are actually cutting the product in offcycle. normally they reset their stores twice a year and it's going in right now. we're giving retailers a couple of weeks to get the product on shelve and then we're going to go out with our communications folks and build awareness about the product's availability and promote trial and repeat purchase. >> is that advertising certain websites? tv? how are you going to go with this? >> all of the above. we're going to work with the retailers to give on sign pro motions. we're going to be in new york city, we're going to use celebrity to get on a lot of the different talk shows. >> what about the people who have hiv. >> we haven't disclosed what celebrities we're going to use, but sufficiee it to say that they're well known. the first hiv test that you can take in the comfort and privacy of your home, there's really no excuse why people don't know their hiv status. >> there's a lot of reasons why people might not go to the doctor and request an hiv test. certainly there's still a lot of stigma associated with hiv. there's about 1.2 million people infected with hiv here in the united states, jim and about 20% to 25% of those individuals are unaware that they're affected. and what's most concerning is it's those individuals who are affected but unaware. they're responsible for 50 to 70% of the forward transmission. so our objective is to put it out there to make it easier for people to know their history status. >> do you envision a world where someone has unprotected sex, they would go to the drugstore and get this within 72 hours? >> we have spent a lot of time making sure consumers can understand the appropriate use of the product. it's not designed to detect infection immediately after someone is infected. but it's the exactly the same technology that's used in doctors offices and the public health centers. this is the rapid leading history test in the united states and now we're making it available to consumers. >> our show has been focused on hepatitis c. you've got a test for it, but you just don't think -- you talk about it as a billion dollar opportunity, but it's not as big for your company as this one. >> we haven't said that. >> all right, good. >> the hepatitis c opportunity is every bit as exciting as this product's available over the counter. hepatitis c is about five times more prevalent than hiv here in the united states. there's about four to five million people infected with hepatitis c and about 2/3 of those individuals are unaware of their infection. there's a huge reservoir of unprotected infection. >> when i go to my doctor, should i be asking for a hep c test? >> the cdc just recommended that all baby boomers, everybody born between 1954 and 1965 be tested for hepatitis c. >> and that's your product that we'll be using. >> absolutely. it's a 20-minute test, it's highly accurate, it's laboratory accurate and it's out there in the market right now. >> we had the ceo on his big tv show. you have got a genetic problem that is and -- >> they are the market leader in oral collection systems for molecular diagnostic, ancestry.com makes their products and makes it available to their products so they can get better information about their gene yolg. there's another company that provides a consumer service for people who want to know what their genetic profile and any genetic risks. >> i don't want to embarrass you, but you are a total heavy hitter. this is not -- it's been around for a while. but mr. michaels spent 19 years with j. and j., you ran ortho clinical diagnostics. so this is a business -- why did you leave? >> those are the two best diagnostics in the country. >> i thoroughly enjoyed my experience with abbott and johnson & johnson, two of the finest companies in the world and i had a great career with those companies. i was approached by the board of directors at orasure technologies and they talked to me about the promise of these technologies, about the opportunities to really make a big impact on public health and i said let's do it. >> i want to thank you, that's doug michaels, president and ceo of orasure technologies. they have got the absolute best up to date information from mr. michaels, i want you to do the home work before you take a shot or make a big investment in this company. coming up, rising in the east? 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although it is a second derivative, meaning it won't happen immediately, they will need engines and trucks and earth movers. cat said negative things but those are the only two worth going with and those companies won't see a bump in time to save their quarters which is actually what matters. you can include general electric in machinery, and today the ceo said china is going to be a use driver for earnings, that led to increase our earnings for ge. people want to buy joy global, i don't know. finally there will be a step up in oil demand, and that scenario i think is very investable. the chinese will need to import and when they do that, you will want to own not many of the major oils and imports. you need international drillers and service companies. they make the actual rigs in deep water drilling. now let's be fair, everything does go up on a real stimulus story. and if you get actual stimulus, holy cow. but here's the bottom line, i just want you to realize that what you can own, which is just the above and what needs to be sold as a trade, which is pretty much everything else, and there's no real stimulus, then these favored nation stocks will most likely get clocked harder than any other stocks out there. let's go to eric in wisconsin. eric? >> caller: hello, jim, a big brew city boo-yah. >> done your way. what's up? >>. >> caller: elgin natural resources they just released their 2012 guidguidance, what d thank you think? >> this is a gamblers stock, and i don't want to gamble. let's go to steve in florida. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. >> boo-yah, steve. >> caller: i just wanted to say thank you for everything you do for us people. >> i'm doing my best, thank you for that, it's great that you said it. >> caller: i have made enough money, jim, i moved from pennsylvania to florida this month. >> good for you sunshine. i was talking about doing that judgment the other day, saying you know what? when this gig is over, which may not be for another 40 years, i would move to florida. >> caller: it's beautiful, but my big question is here is winn resorts. we all know winn is twaes $125 stock, but with winn slipping here again, even though they were up a little bit today, with the china stimulus, that's going to help the stock come back up, isn't it? >> i agree with you, i got to tell you winn surprises me that it's down that much. vegas hasn't been that hot. i'm bullish on wynn. that hunt mean it can't go down ten, but i think it does go up 25%. >> bill. >> caller: my question is this, gm is already doing well with china, with the proposed stimulus package they're talking about how do you think gm is going to fare. >> europe is just absolutely terrible for them. two, while china may come back, i don't know how much money they can make on cars, but most importantly, the u.s. government is still a great big shareholder and that stock's going up, boom, you get slapped up side the head with a big gob of gm stock. bulls in the china shop, it's still important to temper your expectations. too many stocks go up on a whiff of stimulus. many stock also go down if there's no stimulus. coming up, answering the call. >> they have want to come on the show to tell me why i'm too bearish, they're welcome. >> cramer is all ears when the company's ceo gets in the hot seat just ahead. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. you know what i love about this country? 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