Quotes by Michael Rothman

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The market is rallying on the fact that they're talking about another meeting to potentially cut.
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The Mexicans and Venezuelans basically pooh-poohed discussing another round of cuts, ... They essentially said that they have no interest in discussing that right now.
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They know they can't leave here without a measurable production increase because at this price level, everybody's uncomfortable.
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It's like trying to shoot an elephant with a BB gun,
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That they called for an emergency meeting may have raised expectations that they would improve upon the cuts made in the Riyadh pact.
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Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.
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We're facing a situation in the latter part of the 2002 not unlike year 2000, when OPEC was in a position of having to unwind quotas to prevent too tight an oil balance.