If the prices for commodities and further continue falling even the OPEC cannot affect falling of the prices below 50 dollars. The OPEC has got profit on sales of oil within the first 10 months of this year at a rate of 884 billion dollars that has exceeded profit in the similar period of last year on 32 %. Current reduction of prices on oil can become the reason of considerable revision of total annual profit from 1.2 bln. to 979 billion dollars. Owing to reduction in demand for oil, and for maintenance of the prices in the power market, the OPEC declared earlier reduction of output volumes of oil on 1.5 million barrels a day since November, 1st. Thus, taking into account fall of oil volumes forecasts consumption, it is possible to expect the further reduction of deliveries. Next year, predictably, OPEC incomes will fall to 39.3 % to 595 billion dollars.
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