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...shore up sagging prices, OPEC aims to cut output...
...OPEC never was a cartel, and it is less so now. I wish it were a cartel, because we would have much stronger enforcement of the rules...
Those words by Subroto, the Indonesian Oil Minister and the current president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, show how the once mighty oil group has fallen. Only a few years ago, whenever OPEC met, the world anxiously waited in fear that the petroleum producers were about to raise oil prices again. But last week at an emergency meeting in Geneva, OPEC struggled to avoid slashing prices once more. Rather than reduce the cost of crude, the ministers adopted a plan to reduce temporarily their production ceiling from 17.5 million bbl. per day to 16 million...
...latest OPEC crisis was set off three weeks ago, when Norway discounted its oil price by $1.50 per bbl., to $28.50, because it could not sell all it wanted to at the higher level. Britain quickly followed, and then Nigeria, an OPEC member, broke ranks with the cartel and lowered its price. OPEC members, fearful of a round of reductions, scrambled to halt the slide...
...slump in oil prices is causing a mixture of harm and good outside OPEC. Last week several U.S. oil firms reported stagnant or declining profits for the third quarter. Mobil's earnings fell 41%, to $238 million, compared with the same period last year. But low-cost fuel is producing some consumer bargains. Last week People Express Airlines, citing a decline in aviation-fuel prices, slashed fares by about one-third on five heavily traveled eastern routes...