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Saudi Arabia is pledging to make even deeper cuts to its oil production as the kingdom scrambles to revive the crude market it helped crash

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The world's largest oil exporter announced Monday it will slash oil production by another 1 million barrels per day in June. That's on top of the record-setting cuts reached by OPEC and Russia in April to halt the historic collapse in prices during the coronavirus pandemic. That would leave Saudi Arabia's daily output at just 7.5 million barrels, down 39% from April when the kingdom was intentionally flooding the market with oil in the midst of an epic price war with Russia.

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