OPEC+ talks delayed as UAE, Saudi Arabia flight over oil production

At stake is the credibility of the cartel whose actions have underpinned the market since the spectacular oil crash earlier this year

OPEC+ talks were delayed for two days to give ministers more time to reach a deal, after a long and tense meeting on oil production broke down without an agreement.

The move, set out in a letter seen by Bloomberg, was the most dramatic sign yet of the deep division inside the cartel after hours of talks on Monday yielded no result. Oil prices, which have rallied on vaccine hopes as well as expectations that OPEC will maintain its current output curbs, slipped on the news.

OPEC ministers met on Monday and had been scheduled to talk to their non-OPEC partners on