United States Copper Index Fund (CPER)

NYSEARCA: CPER · Real-Time Price · USD
27.60
-0.17 (-0.61%)
Aug 11, 2025, 3:39 PM - Market open
-0.61%
Assets$229.80M
Expense Ratio0.97%
PE Ration/a
Shares Out5.65M
Dividend (ttm)n/a
Dividend Yieldn/a
Ex-Dividend Daten/a
Payout Frequencyn/a
Payout Ration/a
Volume185,667
Open27.69
Previous Close27.77
Day's Range27.54 - 27.75
52-Week Low25.10
52-Week High36.69
Beta0.52
Holdings8
Inception DateNov 15, 2011

About CPER

Fund Home Page

The United States Copper Index Fund (CPER) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the SummerHaven Copper index. The fund tracks a rules-based index of copper futures contracts selected based on the shape of the copper futures curve. CPER was launched on Nov 15, 2011 and is issued by Marygold.

Asset Class Commodity
Category Commodities Focused
Region North America
Stock Exchange NYSEARCA
Ticker Symbol CPER
ETF Provider Marygold
Index Tracked SummerHaven Copper

Performance

CPER had a total return of 10.34% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 0.70%.

News

Argentina's copper dreams need infrastructure - but who will build it?

Argentina holds rich copper deposits in the mountainous north along the Chilean border, but, unlike its mining powerhouse neighbor, has not built power lines and roads needed for new projects backed b...

3 days ago - Reuters

Gold weaker, silver sharply down; copper at least partly to blame

Jim Wyckoff has spent over 25 years involved with the stock, financial and commodity markets. He was a financial journalist with the FWN newswire service for many years, including stints as a reporter...

11 days ago - Kitco

US Copper Plunges After Trump's Tariff Surprise

President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on copper imports, but exempted refined metals that are the mainstay of international trading, triggering a record plunge for US prices. Martin Ritchie repor...

11 days ago - Bloomberg Markets and Finance

Trump's 50% copper tariff includes a major exemption. That won't halt price rises

The White House's final order on copper tariffs puts a 50% duty on semi-finished products such as pipes, rods and wires, but not on raw input materials as had been expected. Refined copper has been po...

11 days ago - CNBC

Trump tariff reversal sinks copper prices, bearish outlook for LME

US President Donald Trump's decision to exclude refined metal from his proposed import tariff led to an immediate and significant drop of over 19% in COMEX copper. Wednesday saw the most significant i...

11 days ago - Invezz

Global power grid expansion fuels fresh copper demand surge

Copper demand is rising faster than the industry anticipated, driven by billions of dollars being invested worldwide to modernise and expand power grids for the digital and clean energy revolutions th...

11 days ago - Reuters

Popular copper trade comes to a sudden stop as Trump's import tariff won't include refined copper

President Donald Trump's decision Wednesday afternoon to impose a tariffs staring August 1 on imports of certain copper products, but not on refined copper itself, has likely brought a halt to a popul...

11 days ago - Market Watch

Trump Just Crashed the Copper Market

The president unveiled a 50% tariff on copper products, but not on the raw material itself.

11 days ago - WSJ

Trump Targets Copper With Tariffs, Though Not as Aggressively as Expected

The president stopped short of putting a 50 percent tariff on refined copper, as he had threatened earlier this year. The market reaction was swift anyway and prices tumbled.

11 days ago - NYTimes

Trump slaps universal 50% tariff on copper imports; metal's price plunges

President Trump on Wednesday signed on order imposing a universal 50% tariff on copper imports, the latest metal he has targeted with a steep import tax.

11 days ago - CNBC Television

Trump imposes universal 50% tariff on copper imports, White House says

President Donald Trump has signed an order imposing a universal 50% tariff on copper, the White House says. The new duty takes effect on Friday, the same day his "reciprocal" tariffs and other duties ...

12 days ago - CNBC

Trump issues blitz of tariff announcements on copper, Brazil, small-value imports

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a blitz of tariff announcements ranging from changes to previously threatened levies on imports of copper and on goods from Brazil to ending an exemptio...

12 days ago - Reuters

Trump's 50% tariff on copper imports is set to start Friday. Here's what could happen.

The U.S. is expected to implement a 50% tariff on copper imports at the end of the week, but what happens next is anyone's guess as talk of an exemption for Chile, the biggest U.S. supplier of the met...

12 days ago - Market Watch

Chile will ask US to include copper within US-Chile trade deal

Chile expects U.S. copper tariffs to be discussed within broader U.S. trade talks in Washington this week, Finance Minister Mario Marcel said on Monday in an interview with local radio program Duna.

14 days ago - Reuters

The copper market is strong with demand drivers, says Freeport-McMoran CEO Kathleen Quirk

Kathleen Quirk, Freeport McMoran CEO, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the impact of tariffs on copper, demand for the commodity and the tailwind AI infrastructure provides.

Other symbols: FCX
18 days ago - CNBC Television

India's Adani, MetTube partner for copper tubes business

India's Adani Enterprises said on Thursday it will divest 50% of its copper tubes business to MetTube Copper India in a bid to boost domestic copper tube production and reduce reliance on imports.

18 days ago - Reuters

Chile bumps up copper price forecast, flags lagging Collahuasi output

Top copper supplier Chile on Wednesday bumped up its outlook for prices of the red metal, though it flagged lagging output from a major mine operated by Glencore and Anglo American as weighing on econ...

19 days ago - Reuters

Copper's Growth Trajectory Could Create Electrifying Gains

Given short-term and long-term price implications, the growth trajectory for copper could be electrifying. That's literally the case as the industrial metal's usage in electricity is giving way to its...

20 days ago - ETF Trends

Copper ETFs: From Tariffs to Technology

Copper ETFs have seen a surge in investor popularity, driven by geopolitical tensions and recent tariff-related news. President Trump declared a 50% tariff on copper.

Other symbols: COPJCOPPCOPXCPXRICOP
25 days ago - ETF Trends

Copper Fever Cools. The Case to Sell This Mining Stock.

Tuesday, Morgan Stanley analyst downgraded shares of Freeport-McMo-Ran and Southern Copper

27 days ago - Barrons

Gold needs trade, rate clarity to break above $3,300, copper shows tariffs on gold can't be ruled out – WGC's Cavatoni

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4 weeks ago - Kitco

Trump's copper tariff objective to rebuild a U.S. supply chain, says analyst

Michael Widmer, head of metals research at Bank of America, discusses Trump's copper tariff announcement.

4 weeks ago - CNBC International TV

Trump's copper tariff is a first step. Here's what's needed now to counter China.

America must control its copper supply — but Washington doesn't have many chances to get it right.

4 weeks ago - Market Watch

The Race Is On to Build U.S. Copper Mines After Trump Pledges Higher Tariffs

U.S. copper prices are trading at records ahead of the 50% tariff that the president has promised to impose on imports.

4 weeks ago - WSJ

Iuorio: Tariffs Overall Aren't Inflationary – Copper Tariffs Are

Jim Iuorio sees precursors for job losses in the latest economic data and thinks the Fed should be easing rates soon. “The market is becoming more and more comfortable with tariffs not being strictly ...

4 weeks ago - Schwab Network