An airline is deciding to hedge with crude oil futures, gasoline futures, heating oil futures or natural gas futures. Given their associated R-squared relationships between each commodity and jet fluke prices, which futures contract offers the best hedge?
A) Crude oil, R2 = .25
B) Gasoline, R2 = .18
C) Heating oil, R2 = .46
D) Natural gas, R2 = .36
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