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CNBC News Associate
Peter Costa of Empire Executions and Charles Bobrinskoy of Ariel Investments told CNBC on Friday, how investors can prepare their portfolios for the weekend.
Recommendations:
Costa Likes:
Microsoft [MSFT
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]—“I’ve been playing with the Bing, the new search engine, and it’s not bad," Costa told CNBC. "When they sell every Windows-based computer, they’ll have it on so they’ll have a built-in market...It will be a competitor to Google [GOOG
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] and this company has a ton of cash…I still think it has a long way to go.”
Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF [VCR
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]—“A lot of underlying power in the consumer that over the next 6 to 9 months, it’s going to start rolling out," he said. "People are going to start spend more… It has a broad mix of companies in it that will help benefit the ETF.”
Bobrinskoy Likes:
Johnson & Johnson [JNJ
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]—“We think earnings are going to be up…it’s just way too cheap here,” said Bobrinskoy.
IMS Health [RX
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Accenture [ACN
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]—“We still think there’s great value. People are worried about what they do with financial companies but there’s going to be long-term IT services growth around the world and Accenture is way too cheap at less than 12 times earnings,” he said.
Disclosure:
No immediate information was available for Bobrinskoy or Costa.
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