polibert/oil-sentiment-headlines

Oil Market Sentiment Headlines

A labeled dataset of 18,450 financial news headlines scored for sentiment relevance to crude oil price movements (WTI / Brent).

Dataset Description

Each article was scored using a two-layer inference pipeline:

1. FinBERT — base polarity signal (positive / negative / neutral)
2. Claude Haiku — asset-specific magnitude and relevance calibration

The combination produces direction, magnitude, and relevance scores that are orthogonal: a headline can be highly relevant but low magnitude (e.g. routine inventory data) or low relevance but high confidence (e.g. general market noise).

Scoring schema

Field	Type	Description
headline	string	Original news headline
source	string	Publication source
date	date	Publication date
direction	string	BULLISH / BEARISH / NEUTRAL
relevance_score	float [0–1]	Relevance to crude oil price
magnitude_score	float [0–1]	Expected price impact magnitude
confidence	float [0–1]	Model confidence

Coverage

• Date range: 2019–2025
• Sources: Reuters, Bloomberg, Guardian, NewsAPI, GDELT
• Asset: WTI Crude Oil / Brent Crude

Motivation

No publicly available labeled dataset exists for crude oil headline sentiment with per-article relevance scores. Existing work (e.g. CrudeBERT) uses price direction as a proxy label — which conflates many market factors. This dataset labels headline sentiment directly, enabling more precise NLP fine-tuning for commodity price prediction.

Related Datasets

Dataset	Asset	Size	Notes
This dataset	Crude Oil	18k	Headline sentiment + relevance
SaguaroCapital/gold	Gold	10k	Price direction labels
Financial PhraseBank	General finance	4.8k	General sentiment

Intended Use

• Fine-tuning BERT-family models for crude oil NLP
• Benchmarking financial sentiment models on commodity-specific text
• Feature engineering for quantitative oil price models

Coming Soon

• polibert/natgas-sentiment-headlines — Natural gas (Henry Hub / TTF)
• polibert/lng-sentiment-headlines — LNG seaborne trade headlines
• Fine-tuned model: polibert/finbert-oil

Citation

@dataset{polibert_oil_sentiment_2025,
  author    = {Polibert Research},
  title     = {Oil Market Sentiment Headlines},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/polibert/oil-sentiment-headlines}
}

License

CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution.