From Frank Holmes of U.S. Global Investors:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst quarter since the beginning of 2009. The S&P 500 Index fell 14 percent during the third quarter, with the materials sector as the worst performer, falling 25 percent. Many base metal commodities saw double-digit declines, but not surprisingly, gold increased 8 percent over the quarter. It appears that fear of a "2008 repeat" drove investors from stocks despite positive long-term fundamentals.

Coal was relatively flat for the quarter, but what's interesting is that coal companies were severely discounted. Over the last two years, coal stocks and the commodity have closely tracked each other, until this summer, when worries about a global slowdown caused coal stocks to fall off a cliff, not once, but twice, in August and again in early September.

This extreme divergence between coal companies and the commodity seems unwarranted when...

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