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                 OPEC Maintains Output, Prices Drop to New Lows

   by VOA News

   The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has decided
   not to cut production, leading to lower prices on trading markets.

   Meeting Thursday in Vienna, Austria, OPEC oil ministers decided to
   maintain the present output target of 30 million barrels a day.

   World oil prices dropped to four-year lows after the news, reaching
   levels not seen since August of 2010.

   Both London's Brent North Sea and U.S. crude for January deliveries
   dropped more than $2 per barrel.

   Oil prices have plunged 30 percent since June, when a barrel of oil
   cost as much as 115 dollars.

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