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Why Silver, Power And Chemicals Will Be The Next Micron Trade, Top AI Expert Says

Why Silver, Power And Chemicals Will Be The Next Micron Trade, Top AI Expert Says

Benzinga 2 days ago

Wall Street has rarely been louder with bubble warnings on the AI trade after the parabolic moves we've recently seen in semiconductors like Micron Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) or Sandisk Corp.

Why Silver Could Be The Next Micron

Visser has been bullish on silver as a structural input to the AI buildout for months.

The metal - tracked by the iShares Silver Trust(NYSE:SLV) - sits near $80 per ounce, down roughly 14% from its peak ahead of Gulf War III in late February but still up more than 140% year-over-year.

The recent pullback, in his view, looks like the same setup that preceded the memory rally.

"Silver is very attractive to me for the reason I just mentioned from the last cycle," Visser said in the interview.

"Silver has lagged behind this recent run up in DRAM due to its overshoot last year. I think now that we are moving into the late cycle in my work of the AI cycles, I look for it to play catch upm," he added.

The inflation backdrop is the second leg of the thesis. April Consumer Price Index (CPI) lands Tuesday with consensus near 3.7% year-over-year. The 3-month Treasury bill yielded 3.69% on May 8.

"This week we are likely to see CPI YoY be higher than 3m bill yields for the first time since 2023," Visser said.

"I think we see a regime shift towards more inflation investments for the second half of the year."

Negative real rates on cash, in his model, force the rotation. That regime favors silver, gold, and Bitcoin(CRYPTO: BTC) as core holdings rather than satellites.

According to Visser, a Warsh-led Fed will refrain from hiking interest rates.

"I do not think it is likely the Fed will raise rates although I do expect the pressure will grow at a time that the Fed is very polarized and dissention in views seems to be very high," he told Benzinga.

Why Power, Why Chemicals Now?

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) closed its most recent quarter with a record $62 billion backlog and guided to power-generation equipment sales tripling by 2030. Sterling Infrastructure Inc.(NASDAQ:STRL), Fluence Energy Inc.(NASDAQ:FLNC), Vistra Corp.(NYSE:VST) and Eaton Corp.(NYSE:ETN) sit in the same trade, along with the broader utilities and transmission grid complex.

Chemicals is the layer Visser believes is most underappreciated - specialty inputs for advanced packaging, optical fiber tubing, batteries and the AI upgrade cycle across autos, phones and appliances.

Visser has called The Chemours Company(NYSE:CC) one of his highest-conviction names in the chemicals layer. The stock is already up 88% year to date.

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