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While spot prices for oil are up more than 50 percent this year, ETFs tracking those markets through derivatives are heavily underperforming. For example, the U.S. Oil Fund (NYSEArca: USO) is up some 8 percent so far, notes this Wall Street Journal story. The article also points out that besides headwinds in futures markets, oil ETFs like USO also are fighting contango. You can read the story here.
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[News] December 13, 2009
Dow Jones Sells Stoxx Indexes -
[BLOG IU.COM] December 21, 2009
Let’s Make A Deal On 12b-1 Fees If we’re going to allow 12b-1 fees, let’s make sure fund companies actually pass on the savings to investors. -
[Column/Features] December 15, 2009
Stratfor’s George Friedman: Long Turkey, Short China The founder of Stratfor Global Intelligence explains why investors should embrace Turkey, Mexico and Poland … and not China. -
[News] January 06, 2010
Second Markit Sovereign Credit Index To Trade
BABs: Beautiful If You’re Not Rich
Despite the Wall Street Journal’s worries about Build America Bonds, they can be great for your portfolio, especially if you’re not super-wealthy.Senator Johnson To Investors: Drop Dead
Politics are colliding with exchange-traded funds and index funds in a major way, for both good and bad.
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Reconsidering Transparency
Matt Hougan replies to criticism of his recent claim that ETF transparency is a ruse. See All
