As most of you know the OPEC members decided on a 2 million barrel per day reduction to their production quota. This is not necessarily a cut in production because the organization members were already underproducing their quotas by 3.5 million barrels.  


Nevertheless, this is a big boost for oil prices because it represents a sentiment shift in oil markets. Of course, oil markets responded by rallying. I discuss the second-order effects in this video.