Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Market Pessimism Vindicated
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For Saudi Arabia, bad news in the oil market has rarely been such a vindication.
Two weeks ago, the world’s biggest crude exporter stunned energy traders by announcing that -- rather than restore halted production as planned -- it would slash supplies by a further 1 million barrels a day.