Outlook for oil prices still benign for world economy

OPEC is unlikely to sustain the production cuts which it implemented in January, but we expect a combination of rising global demand and increased US shale production to keep prices fairly stable for the next year or two. For the world as a whole, this would probably be the ideal outcome.

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