When you get to 40-year extreme valuation levels it’s usually a good time to be positioning for a reversion to the mean. All the obvious bad news would appear to be in the prices.

Go with good quality, financially strong companies that are likely to survive and prosper even if things go badly on a macro-economic level in the near term.
Many of the stocks exhibiting these traits are now offered with low P/Es and relatively high yields. The main risk? Relative devaluation of the Euro against the $US. Euro/Dollar parity was predicted on the cover of Barrons this week which may be a classic contrary indicator.

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Purchase candidates include both pure plays on Europe plus shares of international giants with significant European exposure.
Position: Long KELYA, MAN, MT, RDS.a, TOT, XOM, COP, CMI, WAG, ANF, SEE, SPLS, ITW, PEP, IBKR
Dr. Paul Price July 15, 2012
About the author:
Dr. Paul Price: After college at The American University [BS - 1971] and dental school at University of Pennsylvania [DMD - 1977] Paul served as a dental officer in the United States Air Force both domestically and overseas in Turkey and England.
In 1987 he made a full-time career switch by joining Merrill Lynch.
Over the next 13 years he also worked with A.G. Edwards, Wheat First [now Wachovia Securities], and Ferris, Baker Watts. Dr. Price had enough success to retire in October 2000 but continues to help friends and family with their investments. He continues to give occasional investment seminars for civic groups and business schools.
I see that you have 3 European stocks - MT, RDS.a and TOT
Anything else European you are looking at?