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Both gold and silver are falling today. Partly due to fears of Fed rate hikes. Today also due to more corona cases in China. More lockdowns in China will lead to a drop in demand and therefore lower inflation is the (wrong) idea behind this. Less demand will indeed cause inflation to fall. In order to notice that, there will have to be many more lockdowns in China than is currently the case. So a bit premature. But I also think you should look at the inflationary effects of Chinese lockdowns differently. The small inflation effect will be a drop in demand. The gigantic inflation effect is disruptions in the supply chains. The whole world is too dependent on deliveries from China. Hiccups in those deliveries will lead to scarcity or even unavailability of many products. This will cause huge price increases, causing inflation to rise much faster. And that is good for gold and also for silver, which has been severely punished today.
Uitgever ETF: WisdomTree
Ticker: PHAG
ISIN: JE00B1VS3333
Valuta: Euro
Beurs: Euronext Amsterdam
High inflation is of course reason to invest in silver. But for silver, there is something that weighs even more heavily. The climate plans. Silver is needed for almost everything that will become electric (think of cars). Until now, the climate plans have been slow. But the high oil price and the will to no longer depend on supplier Russia will accelerate that choice for electric. Due to the high oil price, electrical is sometimes already cheaper or the price difference has decreased significantly. All reasons why the choice for electric and with it the demand for silver will accelerate. It is already known that silver mines cannot meet that much higher demand. As a result, the silver price will rise sharply.
Completely exited quickly. I had bought this ETF with a view to NFTs. Early this year, those NFTs started to get quite popular. Many of those NFTs have to be paid with Ethereum. Reason enough for me to buy this ETF. But since the invasion of Ukraine, I've seen NFT sales drop. People are now not thinking about picking up a new hype. It could well become a hype. But it is still too early to invest in this ETF based on that. I see cryptos and also stock markets making a bounce back today (temporarily bouncing up after a significant drop). With this ETF, I'll just use that to get out. We have also seen cryptos react negatively to the conflict in Ukraine. Due to the higher energy costs (oil), mining cryptos will also become more expensive or even no longer interesting. That too is a risk.
Mission accomplished.
This ETF or actually ETN (Exchange Traded Note) does not belong to any group. Reason to place this ETN in each group so that all ETF customers can take note of it. Maybe now it looks like I'm going to invest in cryptos. No, I've never done anything with cryptos myself and I'm not going to do it. So why did you buy this Ethereum crypto ETN? I expect NFTs to become very large. Now it is quite difficult to buy exactly that NFT that will generate a lot of money later on. Too big a risk for me. Nevertheless, I want to be able to benefit from the great success that these NFTs are likely to become. After research I found out that almost all those NFTs use the Ethereum blockchain and have to be paid with Ethereum. The reason is that the Ethereum blockchain is extremely suitable for NFTs. The Bitcoin blockchain, for example, is not. Ethereum is currently the absolute market leader among NFTs as a means of payment with more than 95%. There will be alternatives. But it is likely that Ethereum will remain the market leader. So almost everyone who buys an NFT has to buy Ethereum first. If those NFTs are a success, Ethereum will rise sharply because of all those purchases. And that's the reason I'm buying this ETN. But there's more. The energy consumption of most cryptos is huge. Ethereum has the solution. With “the Merge” they will switch to a new type of blockchain in the course of this year. The energy consumption can then be about 1000 times lower and the transaction costs can therefore also be significantly reduced. So with investing in this Ethereum ETN I kill 2 birds with 1 stone. This year, Ethereum will become an extremely low-power crypto that will beat Bitcoin. And the main reason for me; I have a nice spot on the just departing NFT train. Two things are important for a significant increase in this ETN: NFTs must become a great success and even better a hype. Ethereum should remain one of the most widely used means of payment for buying an NFT.
ETF provider: WisdomTree
Currency: Euro
Exchange: Euronext Amsterdam
In last Friday's good US jobs data, investors saw the risk of an imminent rate hike. However, the US unemployment rate is still too high to expect an interest rate hike. As long as inflation is higher than interest rates, the currency depreciation will continue and silver has nothing to fear. In addition, due to the climate, the world is becoming more and more electric. And that takes a lot of silver.