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Oil price spikes appear to draw investors to a familiar group of stocks

CNBC Markets’ Jim Cramer said investors are increasingly gravitating toward a “familiar group” of stocks as oil prices rise.

In his view, the market behavior is driven by so-called “Pavlovian trades,” where traders tend to move toward the same names when oil ticks higher.

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