2026 has begun, and the Investing News Network (INN) is looking forward to the new year.
To kick it off, our team asked nine experts to share their highest-conviction sectors.
Here's what they had to say.
After silver's record-setting 2025 run, it's no surprise that it topped the list for many of the people INN spoke to. Here's Substack newsletter writer John Rubino summing up the case for silver.
2. Peter Schiff — Silver, mining stocks
Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Asset Management and Schiff Gold mentioned silver too, although he also said he sees mining stocks overall doing well.
3. Craig Hemke — Silver-mining stocks
Similarly, Craig Hemke of TFMetalsReport.com is bullish on silver, but said his choice for top-performing asset of 2026 would be silver-mining stocks.
While silver was definitely in the spotlight, gold wasn't forgotten by the market watchers INN talked to. Byron King of Paradigm Press highlighted the yellow metal's ability to preserve wealth.
Uranium also came up multiple times in INN's conversations, with the overall concept being that the long-term story looks positive given strong demand and tightening supply.
Copper also took the top spot for a number of the experts INN heard from, including Lobo Tiggre of IndependentSpeculator.com. Copper was his highest-confidence trade for 2025, and he chose the base metal again for the year ahead.
7. Rick Rule — Oil/gas, small-scale community banks in the US
Unsurprisingly, Rick Rule of Rule Investment Media went outside the box.
Gareth Soloway of VerifiedInvesting.com also had an alternate take. Although he believes gold will perform well in 2026, he said it won't necessarily be the top-performing asset.
Finally, Clem Chambers of aNewFN.com spoke about why he sees promise in Intel.
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