Shareholder Alert: Robbins LLP Announces United States Oil Fund, LP (USO) Sued for Misleading Shareholders

SAN DIEGO & WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shareholder rights law firm Robbins LLP announces that a purchaser of United States Oil Fund, LP (NYSEArca: USO) filed a class action complaint against the Fund for alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 between March 19, 2020 and April 28, 2020. USO is an exchange traded fund (“ETF”) purportedly designed to track the daily changes in percentage terms of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (“WTI”) light, sweet crude oil delivered to Cushing, Oklahoma.

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United States Oil Fund, LP (USO) Accused of Misleading Shareholders

According to the complaint, in early 2020, the demand for oil fell precipitously as governments imposed lockdowns and business halted operations in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than disclosing the risks these conditions presented to the Fund, USO conducted a massive offering in March 2020, selling billions of dollars' worth of USO shares to the market. After the offering, USO began to suffer extraordinary losses. Consequently, throughout April, USO made significant changes to its investment strategy to mitigate the market's negative impact on the Fund until it was fundamentally different from the strategy detailed in its offering's registration statement. Despite efforts to improve the Fund's position, by April 28, 2020, USO closed at $2.13 per share, down over 60% since March 19, 2020. Finally, on May 6, 2020, USO disclosed that the 2020 market conditions that had caused severe damage to investors had materially impacted the Fund before its March 2019 offering, but was omitted from USO's registration statement. Consequently, on May 29, 2020, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched investigations into USO regarding the Fund’s disclosures to investors and the Fund’s rapid-fire changes to its investment strategy.

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