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5 takeaways from attack on Saudi oil

When an airborne volley of what investigators now believe were cruise missiles and drones laid waste to Saudi oil processing centers Saturday, the price of crude jumped and tremors rippled through the global energy market.Whether it can definitively be established that Iran launched this brazen attack, and whether the United States will respond militarily, remain to be seen. But certain takeaways are already clear. Our view.