OPEC agreed today to raise its production ceiling by two million barrels-a-day next month in a bid to bring down uncomfortably high prices of crude oil.
The oil cartel, meeting in Beirut, also agreed to raise the target by an additional 500,000 barrels a day in August if necessary.
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