[Vantage Point] Oil’s false prophets
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window.rapplerAds.displayAd( "mobile-top-billboard" ); window.rapplerAds.displayAd( "oop" ); window.rapplerAds.displayAd( "mobile-oop" ); Middle East crisis impact [Vantage Point] Oil’s false prophets Jul 25, 2026 8:00 AM PHT Val A. Villanueva Listen to this article Upgrade to listen Powered by Speechify Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism. Sam Calleja/Rappler INFO Why oil forecasts fail when war, inventories, and China rewrite the math window.rapplerAds.displayAd( "middle-1" ); window.rapplerAds.displayAd( "mobile-middle-1" ); The Economist mocked investors in late April for predicting Brent crude oil to reach roughly US$88 per barrel by the end of the year.
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