{"id":12431,"date":"2015-10-25T20:01:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2015-10-25T20:01:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:01:59","slug":"oil-market-showdown-can-russia-outlast-the-saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/25\/oil-market-showdown-can-russia-outlast-the-saudis\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil market showdown: can Russia outlast the Saudis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dalan McEndree writing in <em>Oilprice.com<\/em> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the sharp decline in crude prices has saved crude consuming nations hundreds of billions of dollars, the loss in revenues has caused crude exporting countries intense economic and financial pain. Their suffering has led some to call for a change in strategy to &#8220;balance&#8221; the market and boost prices. Venezuela, an OPEC member, has even proposed an emergency summit meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, the call for a change is a call for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two dominant global crude exporters, which each daily export over seven-plus mmbbls (including condensates and NGLs) and which each see the other as the key to any &#8220;balancing&#8221; moves, to bear the brunt of any production cuts&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the intense pain they are suffering in the low price Crudedome, both the Russian and Saudi governments profess for public consumption that they are committed to their volume and market share policies. <\/p>\n<p>This observer believes the two countries cannot long withstand the pain they have brought upon themselves &mdash; and this article only scratches the surface of the negative impact of low crude prices on their economies. They have, in effect, turned no pain no gain into intense pain no gain and set in motion the possibility neither will exit the low price Crudedome under its own power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Oil-Prices\/Oil-Market-Showdown-Can-Russia-Outlast-The-Saudis.html\">Oil market showdown: can Russia outlast the Saudis? | Oilprice.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalan McEndree writing in Oilprice.com : While the sharp decline in crude prices has saved crude consuming nations hundreds of billions of dollars, the loss in revenues has caused crude exporting countries intense economic and financial pain. Their suffering has led some to call for a change in strategy to &#8220;balance&#8221; the market and boost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/25\/oil-market-showdown-can-russia-outlast-the-saudis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil market showdown: can Russia outlast the Saudis?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,19,26],"tags":[898,3006,3036],"class_list":["post-12431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crude-oil-natural-gas","category-middle-east","category-russia-former-ussr","tag-crude-oil-2","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oil market showdown: can Russia outlast the Saudis? - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oil market showdown: can Russia outlast the Saudis? - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dalan McEndree writing in Oilprice.com : While the sharp decline in crude prices has saved crude consuming nations hundreds of billions of dollars, the loss in revenues has caused crude exporting countries intense economic and financial pain. 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