The 87% solution - Energy Report
By Phil Flynn
16 March 2009 @ 09:32 am EDT
When in doubt, punt! Sometimes cutting seems to be the hardest word. OPEC bows to global economic pressure and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The cartel, in the face of a growing global economic slowdown, opted not to cut production at their meeting yesterday. Instead the focus was on OPEC's compliance to the previous 4 million barrels or so of cuts. In fact compliance to current cuts is running close to 85%, a record for the notorious cheaters. So I guess the solution to OPEC and all their problems is to get compliance near 87%.