Oil Price Predictors: Machine Learning Approach

<p>The paper proposes a machine-learning approach to predict oil price. Market participants can forecast prices using such factors as: US key rate, US dollar index, S&amp;P500 index, VIX index, US consumer price index. After analyzing the results and comparing the accuracy of the model fir...

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Main Authors: Jaehyung An, Alexey Mikhaylov, Nikita Moiseev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2019-07-01
Series:International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
Online Access:https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/view/7597
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Summary:<p>The paper proposes a machine-learning approach to predict oil price. Market participants can forecast prices using such factors as: US key rate, US dollar index, S&amp;P500 index, VIX index, US consumer price index. After analyzing the results and comparing the accuracy of the model first, we can conclude that oil prices in 2019-2022 will have a slight upward trend and will generally be stable. At the time of the fall in June 2012 the  price of Brent fell to a minimum of 17 months. The reason for this was the weak demand for oil futures, which was caused by poor data on the state of the US labor market.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>oil price shocks, economic growth, oil impact, factors, dollar index, inflation; key rate; volatility index; S&amp;P500 index.</p><p><strong>JEL Classification:</strong> C51, C58, F31, G12, G15</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.7597">https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.7597</a></p>
ISSN:2146-4553