The participants in the challenege will get a two month set of data from the National Airspace System, which includes a slew of data such as flight number, origin, destination, take-off time, arrival time, latitude and longitude at frequent interim waypoints along the journey and weather and wind data.
Analysts at Commerzbank noted that the cut-off date for the CFTC data does not take into account the continued slump in prices for the rest of week, so the situation may be different once newer data is released.
China released data Thursday showing a smaller-than-expected trade surplus in September, which will likely take some pressure off Beijing to let the yuan rise faster, the Wall Street Journal reported from Shanghai Thursday.