While everyone chased crude oil and AI plays in 2026, one obscure ETF quietly turned a geopolitical crisis into a four-digit return by betting on something most investors never think to trade.
Shares of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY | OXY Price Prediction) are up 4% at midday Wednesday, trading at $53.90. The move puts Occidental well ahead of integrated peers ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX).…
West Texas Intermediate crude opened 2026 near $57 a barrel and spiked to almost $115 on April 7 after the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to tanker traffic. Brent followed a parallel…
The iShares U.S. Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:IYE) has had a great year for capital gains, but holders who bought it for income want to know whether the distribution can hold up if oil…
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…
The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLE) has had a volatile two months. XLE climbed to $61.29 on May 19 as Brent crude touched $124.61 in early April on the de facto…
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…
Crude oil has whipsawed traders in 2026 with a violence not seen in years. WTI bottomed at about $56 in early January, then ripped to nearly $115 by early April as the…
If you put $10,000 into the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLE) on the last trading day of 2025 and forgot about it, you would be sitting on roughly $13,131 as of…
Everyone wrote off energy as a value trap buried behind the AI trade, yet one sector ETF has quietly outpaced the broad market by more than 20 points in five months. The…
Austin Smith If you put $10,000 into the Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (NYSEARCA:BWET) on the last trading day of 2025 and did nothing, by the close on May 26, 2026 you were sitting on…
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…
Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLE) is having the kind of year energy investors waited two cycles for. With Brent crude printing around $117 a barrel and the EIA assuming the Strait…
Energy sits in an unusual spot right now: it is paying real income while also producing the kind of capital gains that growth investors chase. The three biggest broad energy ETFs, iShares…
The iShares Global Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:IXC) pays a semi-annual distribution that swings between feast and famine depending on crude oil prices. IXC’s latest payment of $0.848062 in December 2025 brought the trailing…
