Diane Alter: Hoping the third time is the charm, the U.S. Federal Reserve voted on Sept. 13 to launch another bond-buying program, QE3. Read more…

NYSE:SPY

Jack Barnes: If you follow the commodity markets, you know that weather can have a dramatic effect on your investments.  A flood, drought, hurricane, tornado, or even something as simple as the changing of the seasons can be a game changer. Read more…

NYSE:FCG, NYSE:JJG, NYSE:UNG, NYSE:UNL

Jeb Handwerger:  Our indicators set us firmly on the highway marked gold (NYSE:GLD), silver (NYSE:SLV), uraniums (NYSE:URA) and rare earths (NYSE:REMX).  As J.P. Morgan famously said in which way the markets will go he responded, “It will fluctuate.”  It is up to us to interpret the Read more…

NYSE:GLD, NYSE:REMX, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:URA, NYSE:UUP

The second week of June is now in the books, and recent sessions were welcome relief to investors who had become accustomed to watching stocks and commodities plunge across the board. Most major benchmarks finished the week flat as worries over Greece and a debt contagion in Europe Read more…

NYSE:IYT, NYSE:NORW, NYSE:UUP

Tim Seymour:  The delicate relationship between commodity markets and emerging markets continues to develop as money pours out of commodity funds and emerging flows have trouble Read more…

NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:FXI, NYSE:TUR

Mike Norman: Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com. I’m Mike Norman, your host. Today we are going to be talking to a professional risk manager. I have as my guest Read more…

NYSE:DBO, NYSE:DTO, NYSE:OIH, NYSE:OIL, NYSE:SCO, NYSE:UCO, NYSE:UGA, NYSE:USO