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…
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…
The iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (NYSEARCA:IEO) just paid a $0.55 distribution in March, the lightest quarterly payment since mid-2024. IEO holders are buying the aggregated dividend policies…
Sébastien Page, Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer at T. Rowe Price, used a CNBC appearance this week to challenge one of the deepest reflexes in portfolio construction: that long-duration…
An ETF has done something unusual for a leveraged commodity fund. It has actually rewarded holders. ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil (NYSEARCA:UCO) is up 130% year to date, the kind of move…
WTI crude went from $57.97 a barrel in December 2025 to over $100 today. That kind of move hands a windfall to oil producers and gives their shareholders motion sickness in roughly…
While the Dow slides into correction territory and the “fear gauge” flashes red, the loudest voice on Wall Street is also the calmest. Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, the strategist who defied the recession…
With the VIX sitting near 19 after a sharp pullback from a March spike above 31, and the Fed holding rates steady at 3.75% after cutting 75 basis points over the prior…
Oil has surged 70% in just 26 trading days since the war in Iran began, marking a faster pace than the 2022 Russia/Ukraine energy shock. WTI crude, the U.S. benchmark, has climbed…
Bond funds have taken some small backward steps in recent weeks, thanks in part to the rising risk of Fed rate hikes instead of rate cuts. Undoubtedly, the war in Iran isn’t…
WTI crude oil is trading near $105 per barrel, a level that was unthinkable just a few months ago when prices bottomed near $57 late last year. The catalyst is geopolitical: disruptions…
WTI crude oil has crossed $104 per barrel, its highest level in the past 12 months, after a conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran that began February 28, 2026 shut down…
