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Saudis, Iran at odds over OPEC price forecasts

Similar understandings to cooperate in the past have fallen apart, making coordinated action unlikely.

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We expect deposit growth to slow down in the coming quarters due to low oil prices and we expect banks’ significant liquidity buffers to gradually tighten.

According to Streible, OPEC and top oil exporter Saudi Arabia could change their tune if crude falls back into the low-$40 range. “There is no quick fix, but if there is a willingness to face the oil industry’s challenges together, then the prospects for the future have to be a lot better than what everyone involved in the industry has been experiencing over the past nine months or so”.

Meanwhile, the number of rigs in USA oil fields has collapsed by more than 50 percent in the a year ago. No doubt the Venezuela-Russia meeting added fuel to that speculation.

“The U.S.is extremely efficient on their production in oil”.

“We know that the present oversupply is more than 2mn barrels per day”.

Iranian oil production by the end of 2016 will be in excess of 4 million barrels per day, more than in the pre-sanctions era, the nation’s oil minister said.

The Gulf kingdom, which has led the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in a battle against rival producers, is seeking to exclude price assumptions from the report, according to the delegates, who asked not to be identified because the document isn’t public.

In this Credit FAQ, Standard & Poor’s addresses some of the questions from investors and other market participants about the implications of this local currency issuance on the local banking system. “Do you believe that … our country will accept not to produce, to secure the market for others?” When the EIA released this latest revision on August 31, oil prices shot up.

The Opec logo is seen at its headquarters in Vienna. Neither company offered specifics on what the disruptions mean for their production levels, but if the outages persist, they could cut down on supplies. “With global markets still reeling from the severe bout of risk aversion triggered by the devaluation of the Chinese yuan, sentiment in GCC markets is expected to remain fragile in the near term”, Abu Dhabi’s Invest AD said in a note on Wednesday.

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Oil prices have been swinging wildly recently, slumping to new six-year lows last week before surging almost 30% in three days.

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