NEW YORK: Opec and its allies headed into a second day of talks on whether to pause their production increases as the resurgent pandemic throws the outlook for next year into disarray.
With crude already in a bear market as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 imperils demand, traders were widely expecting the alliance led by Saudi Arabia and Russia to defer a modest supply hike scheduled for January.
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