| The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ first agreement to cut oil production since the financial crisis — reached at a meeting in Algiers last week — can be seen as something of both. The market reacted positively to news of an output cut, with both Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate surging 6% before a little profit taking took over. Not surprisingly, oil company shares also perked up with some smaller oil companies up 7-10%.
The gist of the agreement, such as it is, is to cut production to 32.5-33 million barrels a day with seemingly all OPEC members agreeing, in principal, to the plan and some non-OPEC members like Russia giving cautious support, essentially saying “if they stick to it we may make some modest cuts, too.”.............................................Full Article: Source
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