Go Symbol Lookup
Loading...

Blackrock CIO: Working Back with Tech Bets

 Text Size  
Published: Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008 | 8:17 AM ET
By: Andrew Fisher,|CNBC.com staff writer

Last month, he heard the bell ringing. Now, he sees a long road to recovery. BlackRock vice chairman and global CIO of equities Bob Doll believes there's a lot of ground to be regained.

"Our best guess is, we're going to bounce around between zero and 2 percent real GDP for the foreseeable future," he said on CNBC Tuesday. "We think we've passed the low -- that was March 17 -- and we will work our way irregularly higher in this bottoming process."

Economic Slowdown
Insight on how long the decline in the economy will last, with Bob Doll, BlackRock vice chairman and CNBC's Becky Quick

Recommendations:

That, he adds, makes careful stock picking more important than ever. Technology is one of the strongest sectors in which investors can work their way up from the bottom. So what are his tech picks?

"In the mega-cap space, we still like IBM, we still like Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Microsoft," he said. "Those are names that have that broad-vased, non U.S. growth, most of them market-share leaders, gaining market share, free cash flow, buying back stock...and not expensive, all the things you want when you look at these kind of companies."

Disclosure:

Disclosure information for this guest on these stocks was not available.

Disclaimer

 Print
Last month, he heard the bell ringing.  Now, he sees a long road to recovery.  BlackRock vice chairman and global CIO of equities Bob Doll believes there's a lot of ground to be regained.
  Price   Change %Change
HPQ ---
IBM ---
MSFT ---
ORCL ---

   
Comments

 

More Comments

 
 

Add Comments

 

Your Comments (Up to 1100 characters):

Remaining characters

Your comments have not been posted yet.

Please review your submission to make sure you are comfortable with your entry.

Your Comments:


                
            
            
        

Featured