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Materials are often viewed as a sleepy, cyclical corner of the market, but the artificial intelligence (AI) buildout is adding vim and vigor to the sector.
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The AI trade everyone talks about is silicon. The AI trade almost nobody talks about is the copper that moves electrons from a substation to a GPU rack, and the Global X Copper Miners ETF (NYSE: COPX) is the cleanest liquid vehicle for owning it. COPX holds the companies digging the stuff out of the ground,... Forget Software: The COPX ETF Is the Pick-and-Shovel AI Trade Hiding in Plain Sight
Investors who want to ride a copper bull market face a deceptively simple choice: buy the miners through Global X Copper Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:COPX) or buy the metal itself through the United States Copper Index Fund (NYSEARCA:CPER).
Other trends also require large amounts of copper. Yet global supply of the metal is not keeping pace.
Following a 7% pullback earlier in June, the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 has bounced back more than 5% as bullish investors demonstrate that they believe the artificial intelligence (AI) trade still has plenty of room to run. But with volatility remaining elevated, investors are finding it increasingly difficult to identify potential individual winners.
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