LONDON / Reuters OPEC’s deal to cut oil production is unlikely to result in a substantial reduction in actual supplies, some of the world’s biggest oil trading companies said, meaning the market is unlikely to rebalance until well into 2017. The price of crude oil has stabilised around $50 a barrel since the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries …

  Bloomberg The scale of the internal differences OPEC must resolve before securing a deal to cut supply was revealed Wednesday as the group’s latest output estimates showed a half-million-barrel difference of opinion over how much two key members are pumping. Venezuela and Iraq’s own figures on how much crude they produced in September were 565,000 barrels a day higher …

  Bloomberg Oil dropped a second day on speculation the OPEC agreement to trim crude output won’t succeed in reducing supply. Futures fell as much as 1.8 percent in New York. Crude has climbed since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed on Sept. 28 to have a new output range of 32.5 million to 33 million barrels a day. …