In the installment of "Pros Say" called "We Need More Bailouts, Bigger TARP", who praised Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke?

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Question: In the installment of "Pros Say" called "We Need More Bailouts, Bigger TARP", who praised Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke?

Answer: Michael Spence

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In the Fast Money post, "Two Sectors Worth Watching", what sector does S&P's Rich Peterson suggest avoiding?

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Question: In the Fast Money post, "Two Sectors Worth Watching", what sector does S&P's Rich Peterson suggest avoiding?

Answer: materials

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Final CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia Answers for Monday, January 12

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Squawk Box
Question: On Jan. 9, stock picker Michael Yoshikami did NOT recommend a dividend-play company in this sector:
Answer: conglomerates

Squawk on the Street
Question: In Bob Pisani's Jan. 9 post "The Next Big Worry", what does the "Trader Talk" blogger call the market's "big worry" now?
Answer: earnings revisions

The Call
Question: In the Friday edition of "Stop Trading," Jim Cramer said which aspect of oil and gas still "might be hanging on"?
Answer: drilling

Power Lunch
Question: Which CNBC correspondent hosted Friday's (1/9/09) market news wrap-up, "The Week & You"?
Answer: Courtney Reagan

Street Signs
Question: Which obsolete medium is referenced on a page of our slideshow, "The Best-Selling Adult DVDs of All Time"?
Answer: ancient sandskritt

Closing Bell
Question: According to Jim Goldman's Jan. 7 blog post, who was the butt of Steve Ballmer's joke about Facebook "friend requests"?
Answer: Yahoo ex-CEO Jerry Yang

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The term MACD is shorthand for

Answer: Moving Average Convergence/ Divergence

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Market rally predictor Jack Hough jokes that he should have written what kind of book?

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Question: Market rally predictor Jack Hough jokes that he should have written what kind of book?

Answer: "doom-and-gloom"

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Stock Picker: There's a Rally Very Soon!

Jack Hough is so convinced that the stock market is ready to rally that he's written a book about it, Your Next Great Stock.

"It's possibly the worst-selling book in America right now, because absolutely no one wants to talk about stock picking," the SmartMoney columnist admitted to CNBC. "I should have written one of these 'doom-and-gloom' books."

So what's behind his enthusiasm?

"Stock investors have been operating under this mirage now for almost two decades," he said. "We've come to believe that the way stock returns look is, you get these big, giant gains, and you tack on little, skimpy dividends, that's your total return. The whole history of stock returns says something vastly different."

He looks at companies that pay huge dividends and are likely to continue paying them for many years to come.

Recommendations:

Companies like Caterpillar : "It will be among the first companies to recover when global building comes back, and if it doesn't, the company makes plenty of money from service and parts, and you get that big, giant dividend," he explained.

He also likes Boeing .

"Boeing will have delivered 364 planes this year," he said. "That's not as many as last year, but it's something like 130 more planes than it delivered in 1995; I say that because it's now at its 1995 price."

Also on his list are General Electric , Intel ,Harley Davidson , and Northrop Grumman .

"(They're) all companies that are at rock-bottom prices; they're protected by, if anything, the value of their assets; and they pay dividends that they can afford," he said.

Disclosures:

Disclosure information for Jack Hough was not immediately available.
General Electric is the parent company of CNBC.

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Final CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia Answers for Tuesday, December 30

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Squawk Box
Question: In Jon Najarian's Monday Stock Blog, which independent oil & gas company did he cite?
Answer: Linn Energy

Squawk on the Street
Question: In her introduction to "On the Money Thrival Guide for 2009", Carmen Wong Ulrich uses what euphemism for complications?
Answer: thrown a big monkey wrench

The Call
Question: On Dec. 29, Marc "Dr. Doom" Faber recommended which trio of "hard assets" to investors?
Answer: gold, silver, platinum

Power Lunch
Question: According to our guide to international market holidays, whose markets were closed on Dec. 25?
Answer: All of the above

Street Signs
Question: In Bob Pisani's blog post from yesterday afternoon, what did he call the "real X-factor for stocks"?
Answer: the coming stimulus package

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Question: According to the article "Best and Worst Ads: A Year the News Eclipsed..." whose ads reeked of "cultural imperialism"?
Answer: Burger King

Final CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia Answers for Monday, December 29

Final CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia Answers for Monday, December 29

Squawk Box
Question: According to Jon Najarian's Dec. 26 Stock Blog post, where did YRC Worldwide shares end in Wednesday trading?
Answer: both of the above

Squawk on the Street
Question: In Larry Kudlow's blog post "We Need Rich People," what natural calamity does he use to describe government spending?
Answer: avalanche

The Call
Question: According to the "Timeless and Time-Tested Warren Buffett Watch Predictions" what lesson do we "learn from history"?
Answer: that people don’t learn from history

Power Lunch
Question: In her article "So You Think You Can Trade?" whom does Janice Dorn quote?
Answer: all of the above

Street Signs
Question: Who officially "arrived at the decision" to cancel Kuwait's $17 billion deal with Dow Chemical?
Answer: Supreme Petroleum Council

Closing Bell
Question: In the Dec. 26 "Fast Money" blog post entitled "So Bad It's Good?", how does Jeff Macke recommend playing Toyota?
Answer: long with a stop at $57

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CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia Answers for Monday, December 15

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Squawk Box
In the Two-Way Street blog post, "Trump Magic: Why I Like The Donald", why does the author like the Donald?
Answer: Trump's name drives Web traffic

Squawk on the Street
In Friday's edition of Stop Trading, what gambling metaphor did Jim Cramer use for GM common stock?
Answer: buying a lottery ticket

The Call
In a Sports Biz blog post, what term does reader Simeon Lipman use for Billy Ripken "obscenity bat card" traders?
Answer: all of the above

Power Lunch
In his Friday CNBC Stock Blog post, Jon Najarian said options traders were bearish on which financial firm?
Answer: State Street

Street Signs
In our Top Destinations 2009 slideshow, which once-divided city is shown in picture Number 10?
Answer: Berlin, Germany

Closing Bell
In the article "They're Back: Day Traders Thrive in Volatile Market" what violent image did Andrew Wilkinson use?
Answer: scalp the market

Weekly Question
A sell stop is placed?
Answer: Below the stock price

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On Friday, where did Matrix Asset Management's Dick Otto say oil would go?

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On Friday, where did Matrix Asset Management's Dick Otto say oil would go?

Answer: all of the above

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Charts Predict: Oil on its Way to $20

According to Jane Wells, Saddam Hussein's yacht, the Basra Breeze, was maligned as

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According to Jane Wells, Saddam Hussein's yacht, the Basra Breeze, was maligned as
Answer: a shrine to bad taste

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Saddam's Yacht "Basra Breeze" Yours For $30 Million

Calls give you the right to?

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Calls give you the right to?
Answer: Buy the stock at the strike price

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Bonus Bucks Credit for Wednesday

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CNBC did not post the trivia questions on Wednesday, November, 26.

They decided to credit every account with $12,000 bonus bucks.

If they post the questions on Friday you will be able to get them on the website or via the email list.

I hope all of you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Bob

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According to Jon Najarian's Nov. 24 Stock Blog post, how far is Nucor stock off its summertime high?

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Question: According to Jon Najarian's Nov. 24 Stock Blog post, how far is Nucor stock off its summertime high?

Answer: down 70%

Options Action: Traders Bullish on Nucor

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What nightmarish phrase did Pimco's Mohammed El-Erian use to warn bank investors?

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What nightmarish phrase did Pimco's Mohammed El-Erian use to warn bank investors?

Answer: "the unthinkable"


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Bank Shareholders Face 'the Unthinkable': El-Erian

MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, EL-ERIAN, PIMCO, BONDS, SHAREHOLDERS, EQUITY, CREDIT CRISIS

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As the nation's largest banks continue to stand on shaky ground, it is the company's shareholders that bear the biggest risk, Pimco's Mohammed El-Erian said.

"The unthinkable is thinkable," the co-chairman of the bond fund management giant said on CNBC. "The equity holder is the most vulnerable in this economy because either they get diluted, or when the government comes in the government tries to protect the taxpayer, which means the government comes above the equity holder in the capital structure."

That means that in any type of government rescue plan for the banking system, the US taxpayer gets repaid before the shareholders collect returns or dividends.

Such a consideration is important as Citigroup's shares lose more than half their market value and a handful of other major institutions vie for government funds to boost their liquidity.

It all adds up to a treacherous investment environment in which even major institutions pose risk of seeing their credit evaluations drop to junk status.

"This is a problem of equity," El-Erian said. "The great risk is that the rating agencies may move, and if the ratings agencies move to downgrade the banks we are in a completely different world."

In this environment, investors are turning to bonds in historical levels, with prices of Treasury debt soaring and yields dropping to unprecedented lows.

"The bond market is telling you this is beyond a flight to quality, this is a flight to liquidity," El-Erian said. "There's damage to the system, and what you're seeing is a reaction to that and a reaction in the yield curve."

The most important things for the market now are a government that provides capital for the purchase of damaged assets, said El-Erian, who also called on President-elect Barack Obama to offer some assurances, particularly on what the direction to the Troubled Asset Relief Plan will take.

There's been considerable clamor for Obama to designate his Treasury chief, but he's been reluctant to make an announcement.

Last week's announcement from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson that the government no longer would directly buy distressed assets but rather provide liquidity for institutions to do so rattled the markets.

"When are we going to get clarity on policy?" El-Erian said. "Suddenly the market isn't sure what the TARP was supposed to do, and clarity on that issue would help."

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In Friday's Stop Trading! segment, Trouble for Coal, Jim Cramer said which energy stock has a "double whammy"?

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Question: In Friday's Stop Trading! segment, Trouble for Coal, Jim Cramer said which energy stock has a "double whammy"?

Answer: Kinder Morgan

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Stop Trading!: Trouble for Coal

On Friday's "Stop Trading" segment, Cramer continues the ongoing talk with Erin Burnett on oil and energy. He reveals a recent EPA victory that spells bad news for coal companies, so he advises staying away from Arch and Peabody , for example.

For energy, Exxon remains a better buy, as do refinery-based stocks, which he feels have bottomed (translation: great bargains). These include Marathon , Valero and Kinder Morgan (which is a "double whammy": high yield AND high earnings).

Cramer also continues to believe AT&T -- whose CEO Randall Stephenson was on the show last night -- is a Buy, despite some ongoing problems with its 3G network and iPhone service (including Erin's!).

Questions for Cramer? madmoney@cnbc.com

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Squawk Box
In "Cap-and-Trade Craziness" what energy resource does Larry Kudlow NOT mention?
Answer: geothermal

Squawk on the Street
CNBC Stock Blog: Thomas Winmill likes miner Freeport McMoRan for a "special reason." What special reason? Answer: molybdenum production

The Call
In “The Right Way to Watch Mad Money” (May 28), what proverb does the CNBC.com editor paraphrase?
Answer: “Give a man a fish…”

Power Lunch
In “Is The Oil Rally Over?” (May 29) Joe Terranova told the Fast Money traders he’s playing oil by:
Answer: staying short Hess

Street Signs
Web Video hunt: On May 27, CNBC interviewed “The Buffett of Brazil.” Name him.
Answer: Arminio Fraga

Closing Bell
In “Ethanolics Anonymous” what does guest blogger Jerry Bowyer cite as a driver of the ethanol trend? Answer: all of the above

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“States with the Highest Foreclosure Rates” slideshow: How many Nevada households got notices as of April?

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“States with the Highest Foreclosure Rates” slideshow: How many Nevada households got notices as of April? Answer: 1 in every 146

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May 16 Final CNBC Daily Bonus Bucks Trivia Questions and Answers

Squawk Box Question #1

Boone Pickens is building a huge wind farm with General Electric turbines. How much is the initial order with GE worth? Answer: about $2 Billion

Squawk on the Street Question #2
The geothermal industry is molten! But there are only 2 pure plays trading on U.S. exchanges. Name one. Answer: Ormat Technologies

The Call Question #3

The CNBC Stock Blog featured "Israeli gems" -- picks by Merrill Lynch's Haim Israel. What was his telecom pick? Answer: Cellcom

Power Lunch Question #4
Donald Trump told CNBC he sold his Palm Beach house for $100 million. What literary reference did he make? Answer: Tale of two cities

Street Signs Question #5

Erin Burnett is in South Asia, seeking global market movers. How big is India's economy? Answer: $1.2 trillion

Closing Bell Question #6

In “Bill Miller’s Broken Legg,” what company did Jim Cramer call “an American comeback story”? Answer: ArvinMeritor




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Donald Trump told CNBC he sold his Palm Beach house for $100 million. What literary reference did he make?
Answer: Tale of two cities




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