With key countries in the world economy spiraling toward recession, and even India and China panicking about domestic inflation levels, there’s one country in particular that still seems to offer good value in its equities markets, thanks to an economic outlook that combines decent growth and only modest inflation.

My latest trade, taken yesterday, is geting some traction. Here's my trading plan, and what I did today to kick the trade into high gear.

Reacting to your P+L is counterproducive and perhaps even detrimental. Here's how to view it usefully. Originally posted May 21, 2008.

summary of S&P's evaluation of the company, reasons to consider buying, and link to other S&P 5 STAR (strong buy) stocks

summary of analyst's rationale for buying certain food stocks and link to track the performance of the stock picks

article about directors selling a lot of stock and examples of recent transactions as well as link to track the performance of the stocks after the sales

Increasingly in recent weeks commentators have begun speculating about the dreaded “S-word”- stagflation- and whether or not such a protracted period featuring both high prices and high unemployment would blight the U.S. economy.