Will analysts stop buying Qualcomm's representations of leverage over Apple after Tim Cook's CNBC interview?

Day Three of the FTC v. Qualcomm antitrust trial was underway in San Jose (a couple of blog posts about it will follow later) when I saw a CNBC interview–Jim "Mad Money" Cramer went to California to interview Apple CEO Tim Cook–going viral. You can find the video and the complete transcript on this CNBC webpage.With this unique style and format, Cramer made financial analysis on TV more entertaining than anybody before him. He's to Wall Street what Rush Limbaugh is to Washington politics: aggressive, outspoken, and unconventional, but none of that should discredit anyone's analysis. A hedge fund manager with decades of merger arbitrage experience called me a couple of days after IBM announced its plans to acquire Red Hat, and the first thing he said was: "Believe it or not, Florian, I watched Mad Money with Cramer last night." He was laughing, but it's a fact that even the pros pay attention to Cramer–from time to time at least.Tim Cook…

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