Saudi blow to world's slickest cartel

22 March 2020 - 00:18 By JULIAN LEE

Opec (the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) may not survive to celebrate its 60th birthday later this year. Saudi Arabia's decision to abandon output restraint and flood the market with cheap crude signals the end for a group dubbed the world's most successful cartel...

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