OPEC+

OPEC+ is OPEC's members plus Russia and other producers, agreeing output quotas: the one cartel that moves a global price. Its monthly report and the IEA report land in the same week, decisions sometimes come when most of the oil market is shut, and oil reaches US inflation.

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