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BlackRock's Bob Doll is not known to make rash decisions. And in the face of spiking oil prices, a slowing economy and market volatility, he continues to buy stocks. So what is he buying?
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Doll has liked -- and continues to like -- Hewlett Packard [HPQ
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"The stock has taken a bit of a breather on the purchase of EDS [EDS
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Doll does not own Anheuser-Busch [BUD
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"The trend is the right trend," he told CNBC. "Strategic M&A should be alive and well. Stock prices relative to interest rates are fairly low, in our opinion, and therefore companies will be looking down the street to say, 'Who can help us do a better job at addressing our marketplace?' and that will spur further consolidation and M&A activity."
Disclosure:
Doll owns Hewlett-Packard, but not Anheuser-Busch.
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