U.S. Commodity Funds Planning Two More Commodities ETFs

U.S. Commodity Funds, the ETF issuer behind the controversial U.S. Oil Fund (NYSE: USO) and the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE: UNG), has filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to introduce a double-leveraged inverse natural gas ETF and a sugar exchange-traded product.

The U.S. Natural Gas Double Inverse Fund (NYSE: UNGD ) and the U.S. Sugar Fund (NYSE: USSF) will both have fees of 0.75%. The U.S. Sugar Fund will track ICE-listed near month sugar futures contracts.

UNGD will provide twice the inverse daily performance of natural gas futures contracts traded on the NYMEX, according to IndexUniverse.

The U.S. Sugar Fund will compete with the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSE: SGG) and Teucrium Sugar Fund (NYSE: CANE) while UNGD will compete with the Direxion Daily Natural Gas Related Bear 2X Shares (NYSE: GASX).

U.S. Commodity Funds had nine ETFs with $3.71 billion in AUM at the end of August, according to data from the National Stock Exchange.