Oil prices surge after surprise move to cut output

TL;DR

The price of Brent crude oil is trading close to $85 a barrel after jumping by almost 6%. Brent crude prices rose after Saudi Arabia, Iraq and several Gulf states said on Sunday they were cutting output by more than one million barrels of oil a day. However, last year's cut came despite calls from the US and other countries for oil producers to pump more crude

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