Oil glut to deepen thanks to new Iraqi deal
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Oil glut to deepen thanks to new Iraqi deal. Just five days after OPEC decided to maintain production levels, Iraq, the group's second-biggest member, inked an export deal with the Kurds that may add about 300,000 barrels a day to world supplies. In a global market that neighboring Kuwait estimates is facing a daily oversupply of 1.8 million barrels, the accord stands to deepen crude's 38 percent plunge since late June. Or as Carsten Fritsch, a Frankfurt-based analyst at Commerzbank AG, put it: There'll be even more oil flooding the market that nobody needs. (VIEW LINK)
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