Oil analysts are, if nothing else, optimists. So much so that no one seemed to see the 60 percent slide in oil prices coming when the commodity was trading at almost $108 a barrel on June 20, 2014. At the time, analysts as a group predicted oil would average about $100 a barrel this quarter and the most pessimistic called for $84, instead of the low $40s it’s languishing at. Analysts are still mostly sunny, looking for a 60 percent rally by late next year. Even the worst month for oil since 2008 has brought out just a few frowns, as Societe Generale SA and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce cut their estimates in the past week by more than $10 a barrel. The prognosticator looking smart? Goldman Sachs, which in May said the rally would fizzle. “Oil prices have so many moving parts that it’s exquisitely […]