OPEC+ panel unlikely to tweak oil policy at Feb. 1 meeting

tweet at 7:06am: OPEC+ JMMC PANEL MEETING ON FEB. 1 UNLIKELY TO RECOMMEND ANY CHANGES TO OIL POLICY -FIVE OPEC+ SOURCESOPEC+ JMMC unlikely to recommend changes to output policy – Reuters The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies led by Russia, known collectively as OPEC+, is unlikely to recommend any changes to oil output policy, Reuters reported citing five OPEC+ sources. OPEC+ is scheduled to meet next week, on February 1. Crude oil prices edged slightly higher on this headline. As of writing, the barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was trading at $81.85, where it was up 0.3% on a daily basis.

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tweet at 9:37am: NYSE TRADING OPEN SEES UNUSUAL NUMBER OF HALTED STOCKS tweet at 9:37am: Looks like 81 stocks were just halted for LULD despite not hitting the bands/thresholds: https://t.co/seHwXtgEpg tweet at 9:38am: Trades were posted to tape that were incorrect. tweet at 9:40am: BREAKING — several stocks are halted for an unknown reason at the start of trading, and aren’t showing up on computers or tablets resulting in confusion across the NYSE floor “It’s a huge problem,” one long time trader tells me. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” @TheStreet https://t.co/Tg58SqT2NQMarket Goes Haywire With Dozens Of NYSE Trading Halts At The Open After "Technical Glitch" It has been a while since we had a market-wide break. Something snapped at exactly 9:30:00 am ET this morning when stocks opened for trading, only... they didn't, as instead hundreds of NYSE-listed stocks were immediately halted for trading after breaching circuit breaker limits... image ... which among others saw giga-caps such as Exxon, Morgan Stanley, Verizon, AT&T, Nike, McDonald’s and Wells Fargo tumble as much as 8%, or more... While it is unclear what the "technical glitch", as CNBC called it, in question was many stocks had abnormally large moves when stocks opened for trading, which triggered the resulting volatility halts. It took several minutes for the circuit breakers to be lifted and for trading to return to something resembling normalcy although nobody knows if these prices are accurate or still affected by whatever glitch halted trading.