Oil halted gains after the biggest jump in almost two months as Iraq said it raised output to a record ahead of talks between the world’s largest producers about freezing output. Futures slipped as much as 1.2 percent in New York, paring the 6.6 percent advance on Friday, the most since Feb. 12. Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest producer, increased output 2 percent and exports by 18 percent last month, according to the state-run Oil Marketing Co. Venezuela said the first step at the April 17 meeting in Doha between suppliers including Saudi Arabia and Russia should be to cap production. Oil has rebounded after falling to the lowest in more than 12 years amid signs that a global glut will ease as U.S. output declines. Saudi Arabia, the biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said it will agree to a freeze only if it’s joined by other […]