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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Sep 24, 2018, 03:52 PM Sep 2018

Oil prices hit 4-year high after OPEC rebuffs Trump

Oil prices jumped more than 2 percent to a four-year high Monday after Saudi Arabia and Russia ruled out any immediate increase in production despite calls by U.S. President Donald Trump for action to raise global supply.

Benchmark Brent crude hit its highest since November 2014 at $80.94 per barrel, up $2.14 or 2.7 percent, before easing to around $80.65 by 1335 GMT. U.S. light crude was $1.30 higher at $72.08.

"This is the oil market's response to the OPEC+ group's refusal to step up its oil production," said Carsten Fritsch, commodities analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt.

OPEC leader Saudi Arabia and its biggest oil-producer ally outside the group, Russia, on Sunday effectively rebuffed a demand from Trump for moves to cool the market.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/oil-prices-hit-4-year-high-after-opec-rebuffs-trump/ar-AAAyYsG?li=BBnbfcN

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Oil prices hit 4-year high after OPEC rebuffs Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
That explains the $.10 a gallon price increase today at the station down the street. sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #1
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