REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
Russia could slash its oil output by up to 700,000 barrels a day, its deputy prime minister said. The US and its allies capped Russian crude prices at $60 a barrel earlier this month. "We are ready to partially cut our production early next year," Alexander Novak told state TV Friday.Russia could reduce its daily oil output by as much as 7% early in the new year, in response to the US...