“…Under the background of the deepening of risk shock in the postcrisis era, it is of great practical significance to examine volatility spillovers and risk contagion effect within commodity futures markets. To this end, in our research objectives, following the important studies of Li et al (2023), Wang et al (2023), Palazzi et al (2024), and Nekhili et al (2021), this study selects a representative price series of each commodity futures according to the integrity, availability, and relevance principles of data sample. Consequently, our data set comprises the daily closing prices from 20 commodity futures: precious metal (gold, silver, platinum, and palladium), industrial metal (aluminum, copper, zinc, tin, lead, and nickel), energy (WTI crude oil, Brent crude oil, and natural gas), agriculture (wheat, corn, soybean, and cotton), livestock (lean hogs, live cattle, and feeder cattle).…”