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Oil producers agree to limit production — not really

Feb 16, 2016
Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia and Qatar proposal leaves few analysts impressed.
A flame from the Saudi Arabian Oil Company burns in the Saudi Arabian desert. 
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Is OPEC still doing its job?

Feb 9, 2016
What happens when neither the oil cartel nor anyone else manages supply?
President of the OPEC Conference Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu at a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria on December 4, 2015.
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OPEC will keep pumping it out

Dec 4, 2015
With a global oil glut and prices slipping, oil producers are in trouble.

Will oil producers' game of chicken end?

Dec 4, 2015
The oil cartel OPEC may seek production limits to draw down the global oil glut.

Crude oil is plunging ... again

Jul 27, 2015
The cost is at a 4-month low. What's going on?

How much is a 10-year forecast for cheap oil worth?

May 11, 2015
OPEC predicts oil prices will hang below $100 a barrel for as long as a decade.

Will Venezuela default? Investors think so

Dec 23, 2014
Oil, whose price has halved in the past year, accounts for 95 percent of the country’s exports and 45 percent of the government’s budget.

For public good, not for profit.

Why won't OPEC cut production ?

Dec 22, 2014
Members of the oil cartel could get higher prices if they cut production but there would be a cost.

OPEC is stuck between lots of oil and a hard place

Nov 27, 2014
With oil prices falling, the group will have to give up market share or profits.

Market forces catch up to OPEC

Nov 26, 2014
Changes in global supply and demand have weakened OPEC's influence in the market.