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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Jennifer Sabah.

By my side here in New York is Anthony Curry.

Hello, Anthony.

Hello.

And Anna Schamansky. Hi, Anna. Hello. And Anna Shamansky. Hi, Anna. Hello.

This week, we're going to talk about oil, including a major rift between Saudi Arabia's

crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Later in the program,

our Hong Kong-based colleague Robin Mack will lead a discussion with Pete Sweeney and Yuna Ghalani about the state of the economy in Japan, China, and India amidst

a viral outbreak and plunging crude prices.

Now let's talk about black gold.

Oil prices are down about a fifth, a startling drop that seemed to kick off with the skirmish

among major oil producers in Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Joining us from Dallas to help us sort through this mess is Lauren Silva Loughlin.

Howdy Lauren?

Hello.

So let's kick this off by either Antony or Lauren or both of you.

Please explain to me what happened late last week.

There was an OPEC meeting and then oil prices collapsed. What happened?

Yeah. Let's put some context on this. First of all, you've got all prices were coming down

anyway, right? So you've got weakened demand. You've got the coronavirus problems, weakening

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