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WTI Crude Oil Futures (CL=F) (CL=F) Sentiment Analysis

Live news sentiment for WTI Crude Oil Futures (CL=F) — NYMEX WTI crude oil futures — the global oil price benchmark. SentimentFX scores every CL=F headline with FinBERT and tracks how sentiment moves alongside price, updated hourly.

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What we track for CL=F

Every hour, SentimentFX collects the latest WTI Crude Oil Futures (CL=F) news from major financial publishers and RSS feeds, then scores each headline using FinBERT — a transformer model fine-tuned on financial text. The output is a sentiment score between -1 (very bearish) and +1 (very bullish), and we plot the daily average against CL=F price so you can see how news flow moves with the market.

WTI Crude Oil Futures (CL=F) is NYMEX WTI crude oil futures — the global oil price benchmark, which makes CL=F an especially useful ticker for sentiment-driven analysis. Our pipeline pulls from Yahoo Finance and other major financial newswires, deduplicates by URL, and only stores headlines whose title actually mentions CL=F or a recognised alias.

Sentiment vs price correlation

The dashboard plots CL=F sentiment against price on a single chart, with a rolling 180-day correlation analysis that reports Pearson r, p-value, a 95% confidence interval and a plain-English strength label (strong / weak / inconclusive). You can also pull the raw correlation via the public API endpoint /v1/correlation/CL=F.

Developer access

All CL=F sentiment, price and correlation data is available via the SentimentFX REST API. Generate a key on the developer portal, then call GET /v1/sentiment/CL=F with an X-API-Key header. Free tier included, metered billing beyond that.

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CL=F sentiment FAQ

How is CL=F sentiment calculated?
SentimentFX scrapes WTI Crude Oil Futures (CL=F) news headlines from major financial outlets every hour and scores each one with FinBERT, a finance-tuned transformer model. The score is the model's positive probability minus negative probability, giving a value between -1 (very bearish) and +1 (very bullish).
How often is CL=F sentiment data updated?
The scraper runs every hour, pulling new CL=F headlines from GNews and Yahoo Finance RSS feeds. New sentiment scores are usually live within 1–2 minutes of scrape completion.
Can I correlate CL=F sentiment with its price?
Yes — the SentimentFX dashboard plots CL=F sentiment against price on the same chart, and the correlation endpoint returns a Pearson r value, 95% confidence interval and strength label over a rolling 180-day window. You can also pull this via the public REST API at developers.sentimentfx.org.
Is CL=F sentiment data available via API?
Yes. The SentimentFX public API exposes /v1/sentiment/CL=F, /v1/summary/CL=F, /v1/prices/CL=F and /v1/correlation/CL=F endpoints. Authentication is via X-API-Key header. See the developer portal for full reference.