Calls for $100-a-Barrel Oil Show Many Betting on Rebound

For all the noise about oil’s collapse, the market is saying not that much has really changed: Higher prices will be back soon enough because the current slowdown in demand growth will prove fleeting.

While Brent crude for next month delivery has fallen 25 percent since June to $86.03 a barrel yesterday, the price for 2020 contracts was down less than one-fourth that to $91.53.