- WTI crude oil has nearly recouped the week's losses today, up 4.5% to $56.80 per barrel. The move, however, doesn't even register on a daily chart.
- Next year? Former WSJ energy reporter Ben Casselman takes to the FiveThirtyEight blog to remind that when he picked up the oil & gas beat in 2008, there was only one thing the experts agreed on: "U.S. oil production was in permanent, terminal decline ... No one has any idea what oil prices will do.”
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