Oil Prices Jump Ahead of Producers’ Compliance Meeting

Oil prices rose more than 2 percent on Friday on expectations that a weekend meeting of the world’s top oil producers would demonstrate compliance to a global output cut deal, but rising U.S. drilling activity limited gains. Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and some other producing countries including Russia, will meet in Vienna to establish a mechanism to verify compliance with a deal to cut output 1.8 million barrels per day , OPEC’s secretary general told Reuters.