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Finance Leaders Urge Increase in Oil Production

NPR

Published May 23, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Finance ministers from the world's leading industrial nations call for raising oil production to meet current demand and ease pressure on the global economy. Representatives of the Group of 8 were meeting in New York to discuss skyrocketing gas prices. Steve Beckner of Market News International reports.

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