Levkovich offers another reason why value stocks look more attractive than their growth counterparts.
Romania and, even more humiliating, Slovakia, with their flat-tax regimes, look more attractive.
European equities, which have on average underperformed American ones, look more attractive: the price-earnings ratio in the euro zone is 11.
Still, Stephen Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments, said that the weak performance overseas only makes U.S. markets look more attractive.
Stocks still look more attractive than bonds on a long-term basis, except perhaps not this week, as a correction may be in store.
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Risky assets look more attractive now than they have in ages.
The long-term chart of the Select Sector SPDR Technology ( XLK) does look more attractive, as it staged a major breakout above resistance (line c) in early 2012.
Bulls and bears could both be right this coming week, but you can count on continued high volatility, and for well-selected stocks to look more attractive than ETFs.
In general, they see the highest risks to economically sensitive shares, like semiconductors and IT services, while asserting that software companies that have considerable maintenance revenues look more attractive.
Since that time, the stock has fallen nearly 22% or roughly twice the amount of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Technology (IYW) sector ETF, and Dell is starting to look more attractive in comparison.
Meanwhile, the volatility of share prices over the past couple of years has made the returns on property look more attractive, encouraging households to shift some of their money out of equities into the relative safety of bricks and mortar.
Given the Fed's recent move to raise interest rates and the expectation of more hikes to come, savings from offshoring look even more attractive to lending institutions in search of new ways to boost the bottom line.
Compared with these paltry returns, foreign assets, particularly dollar ones, look much more attractive to Japanese investors.
The Novatek deal was on the back of the landmark BP-Rosneft deal in January and will likely look even more attractive, given the turmoil in the Middle East.
If lawmakers would ever attach a price to carbon, then nuclear power would look even more attractive, advocates say, noting also that natural gas is a volatile commodity.
Stephen Glaister of the RAC Foundation, a motoring lobby group, points out that road-building could look even more attractive if the government were to allow private firms to upgrade and run the things, charging European-style tolls to motorists and potentially freeing government cash to be spent elsewhere.
Merrill Lynch 's purge diet is making it look a lot more attractive to Wall Street.
When that happens, collecting tax is going to look like a much more attractive option to all politicians.
But we have recently started to see the risk characteristics fall in that space, and it is starting to look like a little bit more attractive area to be.
Evernote is particularly proud of its new shared note design, that offers a much more attractive and interactive look at entries.
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The farther they are from power, the more attractive insurgents tend to look.
What may look like a more (or less) attractive salary could be offset by less (or more) attractive fringe benefits.
When people are asked to choose the most accurate photo of themselves from an array of images that are either accurate, or altered to make them look up to 50% more or less attractive, most choose the photo that looks 20% better than reality, research shows.
The longer the government mulls over this issue, the more attractive a limited law will look.
The guilty plea is a conviction, and so the conviction rate remains high: the DOJ lawyers, in turn, look phenomenally successful and talented, and become that much more attractive to the private sector.
Bottom line is mixed blessing: 2011 will look a lot like 2010 with rising GDP growth, more attractive credit opportunities and volatile but rising equity markets biased toward Asian growth and continued de-leveraging in the West.
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This country should look like a less attractive proposition than it currently does, not a more attractive one.
It makes you look like more of a risk and it makes you a less attractive customer to other lenders.
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