Oil inventories prove stubbornly high

Trick or trend: Saudi Arabia and Russia raise production ahead of June 22 OPEC meeting

At its June 22 meeting OPEC members and other producers, most importantly Russia, are supposed to decide whether or not to raise production above current quotas. However, it increasingly looks like Russia and Saudi Arabia, both of whom favor increasing production in order bring oil prices down and assure consumers that oil prices aren’t about to spike higher, have jumped the gun and started to raise production before any agreement.

An end to the oil glut? From Russia? In 2017?

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