If OPEC was a person, you’d recommend either therapy or that it cut its losses and start licking its wounds. As Bill Baruch, chief market strategist at iiTRADER told marketwatch.com , “OPEC threw the kitchen sink at the market, trying different statements that ranged from extending cuts past the end of 2017 and deepening cuts – nothing worked.” Prices have continued to slide, dropping to the lowest yet in 2017. Brent crude dropped beneath $50 pb during the week, to $48.79. WTI sank further, to $45.90. It’s largely due to the increase of over 10 percent in U.S. output since 2016Q3; stocks are at 527.8m barrels which is at the higher end of expectations for this time of year. However, shale isn’t the sole source of pain – Libya has also achieved its highest level of production since 2014 at almost 800,000 pbd, thanks to two fields – the […]