Word: forli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The outlook is clouded for OPEC itself, especially for the so-called dollar-surplus states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates and Qatar, which together hold more than $90 billion in U.S. dollars and other U.S. financial assets that will continue to slip in value as the cartel's...
The days are gone when Saudi Arabia, by far the biggest producer with 30% of the cartel's output, was able to exert a moderating influence. More and more cartel members, and even factions in the royal family itself, view the desert kingdom's traditional support for the...
Saudi Arabia can no longer even hold down prices by threatening to flood the world market with crude, a tactic that Petroleum Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani successfully employed as recently as late 1976. The key reason is that the Saudi fields are reaching maturity, and it would take years of...
A new power alignment seems likely to emerge in Caracas: a loose coalition among Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait, the Persian Gulfs three biggest Arab producers, which now dominate the Persian Gulf trade as Iran sinks deeper into internal chaos. Instead of moderate price increases, higher production and cooperation with...
The cost of the confrontation may be high for U.S. banks