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OPEC Oil Production Stays Steady, Leaving New Cuts Unfinished

From bnnbloomberg.ca

OPEC’s crude production stayed steady last month, leaving the group’s latest cutbacks incomplete. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped 26.81 million barrels a day in April, about 50,000 a day less than the previous month, according to a Bloomberg survey. Minor increases by Libya and Iraq were offset by reductions in Iran and Nigeria. As a result, supply curbs agreed by the group and its allies at the start of the year to avert a surplus are still unfinished. Iraq and the United Arab Emirates continue to pump several hundred thousand barrels a day above their agreed limits. Nonetheless, output ... (full story)

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