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Oil Prices Will Stay Put, OPEC Says
December 12, 2010

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OPEC ministers decided on Saturday to keep oil output at current levels, citing ample inventories amid persisting global economic uncertainty and a price of just under $90 a barrel.

The 12-member cartel said after a meeting that it based its decision on projections showing demand for crude would grow more slowly in 2011 than this year.

Its statement also cited the “challenging risks to the fragile global economic recovery” including “fears of a second banking crisis in Europe.”

They discussed whether oil would soon broach the psychological price barrier of $100 — or even climb nearer its 2008 historic peak of $147 a barrel.

The “no-change” announcement was widely anticipated and four of the cartel’s ministers — from Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Nigeria — did not even make the trip, sending lower-level delegates instead 

AP