OPEC increases production quota to reduce high crude oil costs

Thursday, June 16, 2005

VIENNA, Austria -- OPEC agreed Wednesday to increase its production quota by half a million barrels a day in an effort to cool high crude oil costs that have dampened the global economy.

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