More countries pledging to freeze oil production levels

Mar 2, 2016
Russia and several other oil-producing countries are near agreement to not increase production
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with heads of Russia's oil companies at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 1, 2016. 
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Dispatches from Venezuela: Red roofs and the new ogling

Feb 17, 2016
From the notebook of Marketplace correspondent Scott Tong, on the ground in Venezuela.
The higher you climb in Venezuela's barrios, the poorer the people are who live there.
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Oil producers agree to limit production — not really

Feb 16, 2016
Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia and Qatar proposal leaves few analysts impressed.
A flame from the Saudi Arabian Oil Company burns in the Saudi Arabian desert. 
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What's up with Saudi Arabia and its oil?

Feb 12, 2016
Why does Saudi Arabia keep pumping oil when it's driving prices down?
Oil pumping on the Saudi Arabian border.
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Is OPEC still doing its job?

Feb 9, 2016
What happens when neither the oil cartel nor anyone else manages supply?
President of the OPEC Conference Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu at a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria on December 4, 2015.
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Oil? Almonds? They have something in common

Feb 2, 2016
Commodities are commodities, whether you drill a hole or plant a crop to produce.
Almond trees in the central valley of California. 
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With busts, the past is no indicator of the future

Jan 29, 2016
There's a limit to comparisons between the fall of oil and previous downturns.
A pumpjack sits on the outskirts of town at dawn in the Permian Basin oil field on January 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. 
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Weekly Wrap: China, China, China

Jan 22, 2016
David Gura and Linette Lopez join Kai Ryssdal to recap the week that was.

The imbalance in the oil market won't go away quickly

Jan 19, 2016
Consumers don't consume more oil because it's cheap. Suppliers have to cut supply.

Five personal finance lessons from the oil boom and bust

Jan 19, 2016
One reporter reflects on what she learned from her time in North Dakota.