The war has been given a date, and the price has been given no ceiling

Last week's reading found the war had become weather: a condition the collective dresses for rather than looks at. This week it produced its first forecast. A president said the war would end after an election. The oil market said, the same night, that it had priced no such ending: Brent above $100 for the first time since July, five tankers destroyed, four Saudi cities struck, some Saudi oil operations halted, and an airline closing a route until the following spring. The Federal Reserve, six d ...