Many newly public companies stumble out of the gate and later become top performers with appealing stocks, a group that includes Amazon.com.
The notion of owning a time-tested physical store of wealth is appealing when stocks are sinking and even government bonds look risky.
So, part of Apple's stated plan is to not only make long-time shareholders (and employees) happy, but to make the stock appealing to new investors, which is slightly humorous considering how widely held Apple's stock is already.
But its sharp drop in price also makes the stock appealing to value investors, she added.
Precisely because the economy is weak, he said, the Fed will keep its foot on the gas, making stocks appealing.
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One European market with appealing small-cap stocks is Austria.
But natural resource stocks, appealing mainly as hedges against inflation, have lagged sorely over the past decade.
Mr. Grantham also finds emerging stock markets appealing, along with Japan and "cheap European value stocks," and he advises longer-term investors to consider commodity and energy stocks.
This seems particularly appealing when stock prices are rising and falling so much.
