We use the average of the tax-inclusive prices of No.20 fuel oil in Guangzhou and Shanghai to represent the fuel oil spot price, the fuel oil futures prices traded in Shanghai Futures Exchange to represent the oil futures prices and the CSI 300 energy index to represent the energy stock index. Meanwhile, the weekly data of S&P 150 500 energy index, WTI (the West Texas intermediate) crude oil prices and WTI crude oil futures prices traded in New York Mercantile Exchange are available for comparison. The sample covers the period from August 26, 2004 to January 21, 2016. The sample size is 596. All data are extracted from Wind Database.

Heating Oil rose to 2.35 USD/Gal on December 2, 2025, up 0.21% from the previous day. Over the past month, Heating Oil's price has fallen 2.25%, but it is still 6.31% higher than a year ago, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Heating oil - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

The datasets for the Role of Financial Investors on Commodity Futures Risk Premium are weekly datasets for the period from 1995 to 2015 for three commodities in the energy market: crude oil (WTI), heating oil, and natural gas. These datasets contain futures prices for different maturities, open interest positions for each commodity (long and short open interest positions), and S&P 500 composite index. The selected commodities are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). The data comes from the Thomson Reuters Datastream and from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).