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Oil prices drop ahead of OPEC meeting

Xinhua, June 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Oil prices were down slightly on Wednesday ahead of a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) later this week.

OPEC will hold a meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday. Media reports showed the organization may consider the reintroduction of an output cap at its Thursday meeting.

Analysts said the decision would be a major compromise for OPEC, which failed to agree on an output ceiling at its last meeting in December.

The expectation for such an agreement helped oil prices erased most of the day's losses on Wednesday.

The West Texas Intermediate for July delivery lost 9 cents to settle at 49.01 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for August delivery decreased 17 cents to close at 49.72 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. Endit