My name is Lee Hawkins. I've been a journalist for over 25 years. On my new

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Attempts to light a fire under oil prices are fizzling so far.

I'm David Brancaccio, OPEC Plus, the Oil Cartel, including Russia, agreed at its latest meeting

to keep its lower production limits in place

to try to prop up fuel prices. To the concern of those producers and the delight

of consumers crude has been going for less than $80 a barrel since the beginning of May.

And OPEC's moves don't appear to be pushing up prices at the moment.

We're at 72.70 a barrel here in New York, down 2.1% today, Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman reports.

OPEC Plus announced it'll extend some voluntary production curbs into 2025 and could phase

others out later this year.

Andrew Gross, a AAA, calls it typical OPEC mushiness.

Clearly, the oil market took in OPEC plus's news and sort of shrugged and the price of oil dropped a couple dollars a barrel.

One thing weakening OPEC's pricing power is anemic oil demand, especially in China,

says Columbia Business School climate economist

Gernet Wagner.

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