Cramer's Top 10 Things Needed for Stocks to Rise

On CNBC's Mad Money Monday evening, Jim Cramer offered a list of ten things which need to happen before stock prices will go higher and sustain gains.

1. Congress and the Nation's leaders need to return from vacation as nothing constructive can be accomplished when no one is working.
   
2. Bank stocks need to stop going down and confidence needs to be restored.
   
3. The poor seasonality trends in tech need to halt and people need to start buying again.
   
4. More mergers and acquisitions; Cramer believes if business owners show confidence in their business, it will be passed on down to the investors and consumers.
   
5. Gold needs to show signs that it can actually go down.
   
6. Bank bailout overseas. Cramer also thinks the European Union has to insist the Euro banks raise more equity.
   
7. Brent crude has to drop below $100 a barrel.
   
8. Following the drop in the price of Brent crude, Cramer feels this will help China announce it is beginning to see better inflation inputs, eventually leading to flat interest rates.
   
9. A plan and vision has to be set for the euro -- other than the current plan.
   
10. The stocks of companies reporting record earnings and outperforming expectations need to hit 52-week highs.

If stocks continue to follow the current trends, Cramer feels, "we are doomed to duke it out in a violent fashion."

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