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- Is Palladium a Good Bet?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 4.5%* I bet you wished you owned palladium Monday. What? You're not watching palladium? What if I told you that platinum's poor relation ("Platinum's Poorer Relation: Palladium") has stair-stepped to a 45% gain year-to-date, bettering the performance...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Manganese: The Unsung Hero Among Metals
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Tom Vulcan It's the world's fourth-most consumed metal by weight, and the twelfth-most abundant in the Earth's crust. All steels contain it. And the U.S. is 100% reliant on imports of it. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-07-29
- MOO Is on Sale
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 2.5%* Too bad the stock market doesn't operate like a grocery store. Grocers regularly run ads touting lower prices to draw customers into their stores. Market makers advertise "specials" too, but unfortunately, a many investors pass...
- External links 2009-10-12
- How Regulation Will Force ETFs to Evolve
- Hard Assets Investor submits: It seems like every other day, regulators are coming up with new plans on how to increase the controls over the commodities markets: Rep. Barney Frank's proposal on limiting derivatives; CFTC chairman Gary Gensler's plans to regulate the over-the-counter market; the CFTC's proposal to close...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Inflation Scorecard: Prices Bottoming
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 4.6% Data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this week shows U.S. inflation continuing to bottom. Year-over-year, the Consumer Price Index slipped 0.2% in October, its shallowest decline since March. Wholesale prices for...
- External links 2009-11-20
- Cadmium: Spent Energy?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Tom Vulcan Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense...
- External links 2009-11-17
- Mother Nature (Not Speculators) Changes the Agriculture Game
- Hard Assets Investor submits: So far in 2009, the agriculture markets haven't witnessed the same sharp rebound as other commodities have; in fact, compared to oil or copper, humble ags seem downright sensible. And there's still plenty of room for upside, says Shonda Warner, founder of Chess Capital Partners—that...
- External links 2009-11-12
- Peter Schiff: The Government Chose Wrong
- Hard Assets Investor submits: At last week's "Inside Commodities" conference, the conversation returned again and again to one dominant theme: inflation vs. deflation. Some, like Nouriel Roubini, predicted the U.S. is set for a deflationary crash. But other speakers forecasted runaway inflation—including Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital....
- External links 2009-11-11
- Mongolia: Mining's Next Big Thing?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Lara Crigger With its rich deposits of natural resources, you'd think by now Mongolia would be higher on the mining radar. But this impoverished, agrarian country entirely missed out on the recent worldwide mining boom, stymied by its own overzealous legal restrictions and a...
- External links 2009-09-01
- The Three Ms of Specialty Metals
- Hard Assets Investor submits: In the last few months, metals prices have skyrocketed from their 2008 lows, fueled in particular by Chinese demand. And the rise isn't limited to just the usual suspects, like copper and iron. Across the board, so-called prices of "specialty metals" have also climbed spectacularly,...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Coffee Can Give You a Lift
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 4.4%* You could say coffee's offered investors a lot more than just a caffeine jolt this year. Take a look at the December contract's chart below. The market for Arabica beans has been a veritable roller coaster...
- External links 2009-08-18
- Tale of Two Grains
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Too Much Corn Corn (C,CBOT) Daily by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-09-04
- Copper's Run Over
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Anyone bull-riding copper this year scored pretty well. For the 34 weeks stretching from Christmas to August's end, there were only nine in which December COMEX copper closed lower. For the buy-and-hold investor, a 73% weekly winning streak takes the blue ribbon,...
- External links 2009-09-29
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission Moving Towards Transparency
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Traders and pundits alike saw some of the fog surrounding the commodities market lifted last week, as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] unveiled a new system for reporting participants' commitments. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-09-14
- Education Is the Key to Understanding Soft Commodities
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Mike Norman, anchor, HardAssetsInvestor.com Norman: Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com. I’m Mike Norman, your host. Well, we’re going to be talking soft commodities today, and here to discuss that is Mark Hansen, who is a director at CPM Group right here in New York....
- External links 2009-09-10
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