Jim Cramer: Loose OPEC Talk Falsely Propping Up Oil

Oil prices are being propped up by OPEC grandstanding and jawboning, not reality, says Jim Cramer
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Oil prices are being propped up by OPEC grandstanding and jawboning, not reality, says TheStreet's Jim Cramer. Cramer says the price is being elevated by talk because the reality is that there is "way too much oil." In Cramer's view, $40 a barrel could be the next stop for crude which is currently trading above $45 a barrel. Cramer is dismissing talk from the Algerian energy minister of a severe Saudi Arabian cutback in production. In his opinion, the Saudi's will continue to pump crude regardless of what their fellow members say.