Natural Gas ETFs: Declining Commodity Price Plus Contango, Recipe for Disaster

Is Henry Hub a Gangster? It sounds like one, and it acts like one if you invest in natural gas ETFs,.

Investing in natural gas through ETFs has become very popular lately. BNN looked today at two of the major commodity ETFs available to U.S. and Canadian investors.

• UNG: futures, suffers from contango, losses through rollover, 1.0% MER
• Gas.to: Claymore, tracks futures on the Alberta market, in CAD, 0.8%MER

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