Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, second right, followed by

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, second right, followed by OPEC President Chakib Khelil, right, meets OPEC delegates at the OPEC meeting in Oran, western Algeria, Wednesday Dec. 17, 2008. OPEC oil ministers say they will likely approve a cut of 2 million barrels a day from their output as of early next year. And major non-OPEC producers will likely take hundreds of thousands more barrels off the market.
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