Oil

Amidst a week of extreme volatility, below is a list of some of the top ETF gainers for the previous week: ZSL ultrashort (leveraged-bear/inverse orientation) silver was up +59% for the week ERY 3x leveraged bear/inverse orientation energy sector +42.3% DUST 2x leveraged inverse/bear gold miners was up +24.7% for the week. GLL ultrashort (leveraged-bear/inverse) [...]

Selling in commodities continued bearish downtrends, with steep declines in silver and oil ETFs. As crude prices closed below $100 per barrel, the U.S. Oil Fund ETF, ticker USO, closed down -9.11% Silver continued sharp declines, reflected in the iShares Silver Trust ETF, ticker SLV, which closed -11.89%.  For the week the silver ETF has [...]

A new oil tracking ETF is about to slide onto the scene. The fund, known as IQ Global Oil Small Cap ETF (ticker: IOIL), will track smaller oil companies in more than ten countries around the world. The U.S. will carry the biggest weight with nearly half of the companies while Canada and Thailand round [...]

Rising oil prices have pushed up returns offered by energy based ETFs even as ETFs tracking crude oil prices have lagged behind. Prices are rising on account of political disturbance in Libya and East and North Africa and investors are preferring energy ETFs over oil based ETFs. Market forces prevent the latter from tracking the [...]

Commodity based ETF specialist Teucrium Trading LLC has announced The Teucrium Natural Gas Fund (NAGS) which will invest funds in multiple natural gas funds. The ETF will invest in multiple NYMEX futures contract to dissipate the negative impact of potential ‘contango’ in the market. The fund will hold three different contracts simultaneously with different weightage [...]

Bond investors are looking forward to the proposed government decision to sell more treasury bonds in the coming week. This has come as good news for those who have invested in long term bonds. Long term bonds are very sensitive to economic and political changes and there are signs of good performance by ETFs that [...]

The oil industry segment is facing the problem of plenty with too many ETFs investing money in almost the same companies in the industry with a different asset mix depending on individual ETF portfolio. ETFs that invest in big oil companies will cover the key players like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Schlumberger, Transocean, BP, Royal Dutch [...]

Assets continued to flow into U.S. exchange-traded funds last month despite volatile market conditions. Popular commodity funds were a major reason for the sustained growth.  During the month of May, it was the commodity class that attracted the most assets. According to the press release, SPDR Gold Shares (GLD: Profile, Quote, Advanced Chart, News) lead [...]

The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has taken a toll on oil prices. With uncertainty surrounding the future of oil, investors have noticed that natural gas ETFs are gathering steam. U.S. Natural Gas ETF (UNG: Profile, Quote, Advanced Chart, News) and the First Trust ISE Revere Natural Gas ETF (FCG: Profile, Quote, Advanced Chart, [...]

United States Commodity funds, the ETF sponsor best known for its United States Oil Fund (USO: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) and United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), today launched another fund to track Brent oil prices. The new fund, the United States Brent Oil Fund (BNO), will track the [...]