“The big oil deal with OPEC Plus is done. This will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States." That's how President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the largest ever cut in production had been agreed by key producers around the world. Marco Werman looks into that claim with the help of Gaurav Sharma, a financial writer based in London
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