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OPEC’s quota hike all but irrelevant to oil price outlook

OPEC’s decision today to raise the official target for the cartel’s oil output to close to the current level of production will make no real difference on the ground, especially as it reportedly did not even discuss the setting of new quotas for individual members. The bigger picture is that the latest demand forecasts from both OPEC and the IEA still look too high and that oil prices have further to fall.

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