{"id":88790,"date":"2023-04-04T06:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-biden-downplays-opec-output-cuts"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:21:39","slug":"us-president-biden-downplays-opec-output-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/us-president-biden-downplays-opec-output-cuts","title":{"rendered":"US President Biden downplays OPEC+ output cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>US President Joe Biden attempted on Monday to downplay the latest output cuts by the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be as bad as you think,\u201d Biden said during a trip to Minnesota in response to a reporter&#8217;s question on the decision by some OPEC+ countries to cut production by a combined 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the decision by some member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies to cut oil production is &#8220;not positive&#8221; for global growth, calling it an &#8220;unconstructive act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it\u2019s a regrettable action that OPEC decided to take. 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US President Joe Biden attempted on Monday to downplay the latest output cuts by the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be as bad as you think,\u201d Biden said during a trip to Minnesota in response to a reporter&#8217;s question on the decision by some OPEC+ countries to cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[6857,7003,9068,6354,544,9512,9513,9510],"class_list":["post-88790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-janet-yellen","tag-joe-biden","tag-kenya","tag-minnesota","tag-oil-production","tag-opec-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US President Biden downplays OPEC+ output cuts - 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