No guarantee of oil deal at Doha talks

Kuwait City

MAJOR oil producers will meet this weekend to try and negotiate an output freeze to drain crude oversupply and boost prices, but doubts remain over whether Iran will join any accord.

Analysts are divided on the expected outcome of the meeting of around a dozen oil exporters, including heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Russia, in Doha on Sunday, which could send oil prices rising or crashing again.

Prices have rebounded sharply in recent weeks partly on expectations of a deal that coul…