US President Donald Trump spent the weekend downplaying a potential OPEC+ production agreement, embracing both the free market’s ability to resolve the price collapse, celebrating the benefits of sub-$1/gal gasoline to US consumers and threatening tariffs on oil imports. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now And while his messages appeared mixed, Trump has offered no signal that the US government will support a global supply intervention, which analysts believe may be necessary to support prices and a US shale sector teetering on collapse. On Saturday, during a White House press conference, Trump threatened oil import tariffs, claimed Russia, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations would be “destroyed” if they did […]

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