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A Pakistani employee adjusts the price on a display board at a filling station in Karachi on December 1, 2008. Oil prices dropped more than two dollars after OPEC decided at a weekend meeting against cutting its production, prefering to wait until December before reducing crude exports. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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