After having a stellar start to the year, oil prices have slipped again as US President Donald Trump called on the world’s largest producers to lower prices. This makes next week’s meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’s Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee all the more crucial.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his call for OPEC to cut oil prices to hurt oil-rich Russia's finances and help bring an end to the war in Ukraine.

"You've got to bring down the oil price, you've got to end that war. They should have done it long ago," President Donald Trump said.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday proved that words can be just as powerful as actions — at least temporarily — after his promise to ask the Saudis and OPEC to lower the cost of oil led to a downturn in crude prices.

Saudi Arabia's energy minister and several of his OPEC+ counterparts have held talks following U.S. President Donald Trump's call for lower oil prices and ahead of a meeting next week of OPEC+ oil-producing countries,

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, convened a meeting with his counterparts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, and Libya on Monday. This meeting followed US President Donald Trump’s public call for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower oil prices and preceded a crucial meeting of the