The Trade War Handed Us a Rare Earths Profit Play

Peter Krauth

A few weeks back, I told you about an opportunity hiding beneath the festering U.S.-China trade war.

Since then, the situation has gotten worse as both sides continue to up the ante.

That triggered serious talk about China using its domination of a small but crucial resource subsector.

You see, China dominates the production, refinement, and supply of rare earths. These are obscure, scarce elements – like praseodymium, neodymium, and gadolinium, to name a few – that play an increasingly important role in 21st-century life.

In fact, rare earths are essential to nearly every aspect of our daily lives now, found in everything from electronics to transportation, defense, and medical and industrial applications.

China has already used its power once over this sector to "punish" the United States.

And right now, it's looking increasingly like China will do it again, causing rare earths companies to soar.

The non-Chinese producer I recently recommended was up 33% in a day and is up 46% in the last three weeks.

But there are more players that stand to do as well – or better – in the coming weeks and months…

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Peter Krauth is the Resource Specialist for Money Map Press and has contributed some of the most popular and highly regarded investing articles on Money Morning. Peter is headquartered in resource-rich Canada, but he travels around the world to dig up the very best profit opportunity, whether it's in gold, silver, oil, coal, or even potash.

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