If you bought United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) a decade ago because you thought oil was cheap, the spot price proved you right, but the fund did not. Spot West Texas Intermediate…
Mark July 29 on the calendar. That is the next scheduled FOMC decision, and according to JPMorgan Asset Management CIO Bob Michael, every Fed meeting is now live for a potential rate…
If you bought the United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) ten years ago to ride a long-term crude rebound, you are sitting on a total return of 22.46%. Crude oil itself has swung…
Crude oil is the loudest macro story of 2026, and the cleanest way to express a view on it without owning physical barrels is through exchange-traded funds. This piece focuses on four:…
If you put $10,000 into United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) on the last trading day of 2025, when it closed at $69.16, you were sitting on roughly $19,800 by the close on…
The United States Oil Fund (NYSE:USO) opened 2026 at $69.16 and closed Friday at $129.09, a year-to-date gain of roughly 87% in five months. The one-year number is even better at roughly…
Michael Williams The United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) has been the most consequential commodity trade of 2026, and the next 12 months will decide whether that trade survives or unwinds. USO trades near $131…
If you bought the United States Oil Fund (NYSEARCA:USO) to bet on rising crude prices, the fund is living up to its reputation. USO is up 114% year to date as WTI…
West Texas Intermediate crude started 2026 at $57 a barrel and now trades near $112, a near-doubling driven by Iran-related tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and a sustained geopolitical risk premium…
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve posted back-to-back record drawdowns in mid-May, with 9.92 million barrels released in the week ending May 15 and 8.6 million the week before. Those twin releases brought the…
Joel South If you’ve ever stared at a ticker yielding north of 30% and wondered what the catch was, Credit Suisse X-Links Crude Oil Shares Covered Call ETN (NASDAQ:USOI) is the catch made visible.…
Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace delivered a line worth pausing on this week. Responding to a question about whether a U.S. naval posture was choking off Iranian crude flows, he told viewers: “We’ve had…
Crude oil cleared $100 a barrel multiple times in April 2026, and the move was not subtle. WTI peaked at nearly $115 in early April; Brent reached about $138 in the same…
In just a few weeks, the Iran War has triggered enormous volatility into the oil markets. With oil futures prices ranging this year between the mid $50s per barrel to over $112,…
Three supertankers slipped through the Strait of Hormuz last Saturday, each carrying up to two million barrels of oil. That trickle is all that passed during the ceasefire window. Before the war…
