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OPEC Leaves Output Ceiling Unchanged at 30 Million Barrels
OPEC left its oil-output target unchanged, resisting calls from Venezuela for action to halt this year’s plunge in prices. The group maintained its collective ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, said today after the 12-member producer group gathered for talks at its headquarters in Vienna. Brent crude fell below $75 a barrel after the decision, for the first time since September 2010. Oil collapsed into a bear market this year as the U.S. pumped at the fastest rate in more than three decades and threats to supply from Iraq and Russia faded. A total of 58 percent of ... (full story)