OPEC delivers for US shale boom

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Well done OPEC:

OPEC agreed to extend production cuts through the first quarter of next year, as many had expected, but in traders’ eyes that wasn’t enough.

Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to keep their output-cut deal in place through March of next year, that generally matched market consensus, but still disappointed some who were looking for a longer time frame or larger cuts.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.