Oil Resumes Rise After OPEC Cut
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published December 01, 2016 | 12:25 PM
SINGAPORE, Dec 1, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 01st Dec, 2016 ) - Oil prices resumed their rise Thursday and held above the $50 barrier following OPEC's decision to carry out its first output cut in eight years.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at a meeting in Vienna on Wednesday agreed on specific targets to enact a preliminary deal struck in September designed to ease a global crude supply glut and boost prices.
Many analysts had expected the producers' cartel to fail to reach a deal as major players like Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia remained divided ahead of the meeting. Crude futures prices surged more than 10 percent immediately after the OPEC deal.
At 0630 GMT Thursday, after a brief dip in early Asian trade, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for January delivery was up 70 cents or 1.
42 percent at 50.14, while Brent crude for February was 81 cents or 1.6 percent higher at $52.65.
"Not only had hopes of higher prices been realised, the reputation of the OPEC has also been salvaged, prompting the surge," said Jingyi Pan, market strategist at IG in Singapore. "Sceptics have now placed their focus on the implementation of the OPEC deal where Saudi Arabia will be shouldering the bulk of the cut." The 14-member OPEC agreed to lower its monthly output by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) to 32.5 million bpd from January 1.
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