Prominent oil wildcatter T. Boone Pickens isn’t giving up his ambitious bull call for crude-oil prices. In a Thursday op-ed for CNBC , Pickens admitted that with two and half months left until the end of the year, and crude prices hovering in the vicinty of $50, his call “isn’t looking good.” West Texas Intermediate crude oil for November delivery CLX5, +2.51% was up 63 cents, or 1.3%, at $48.44 a barrel early in Thursday trade, while Brent crude—the international benchmark for oil—was 72 cents, or 1.4%, higher at 52.50 a barrel. Those levels are much improved from crude oil’s nadir but still well off Pickens’s lofty prediction. The 87-year-old oil tycoon and sometimes renewable energy investor, who founded energy hedge fund BP Capital Management, earlier in the year not only forecast $70 oil but also predicted a price of $80 to $90 a barrel by the middle of […]