Constructing a Composite Leading Indicator for the Global Crude Oil Price

Mei-Teing Chong, Chin-Hong Puah and Shazali Abu Mansor

International Business Research, 2018, vol. 11, issue 5, 129-134

Abstract: Crude oil, as the most traded commodity in the world, exhibits prices with a clear influence on other commodities in the worldwide market. It also poses implications regarding the economic growth of oil-exporting and oil-importing nations. This study provides an unprecedented method of employing the indicator approach as proposed by the Conference Board, National Bureau of Economic Research, to construct a leading indicator for the global crude oil price. The results reveal that the constructed oil price indicator can predict the cyclical movement of the oil price by moving in advance of 3.5 months on average. This finding could provide better signaling to oil-related nations as well as other commodities that consider crude oil to be a leader in the market.

Keywords: crude oil price; forecasting; indicator approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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