Oil prices dropped to a six-week low, extending a week-long slide amid more skepticism about production cuts from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Light, sweet crude for December delivery settled down 59 cents, or 1.3%, at $44.07 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the global benchmark, fell 77 cents, or 1.7%, to $45.58 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. Losses of about $5 a barrel each gave both benchmarks their worst weekly dollar declines since the first quarter of 2015. Both benchmarks lost about 10% for the week on reports of OPEC members squabbling about how a deal for production cuts would work, and on a record 14.4-million-barrel rise in U.S. stocks. Oil prices have now fallen for six straight sessions and nine of the last 10. News reports about disagreements between OPEC members continued Friday, stoking fears that ongoing talks about production cuts […]