Oil producers seek to shore up finances amid crude price plunge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "The oil price drop we've seen over the last week has taken us into territory where for a lot of oil-dependent economies, it's not going to be what they need to balance their budgets, nowhere close," said Richard Bronze, head of geopolitics at Energy Aspects.
36% : Trump tightened U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and signed an executive order to impose secondary tariffs on any country that imports Venezuelan crude, leading to a hiatus in the oil exports that finance the state budget.
34% : "For some of them, that puts at risk core public spending, raising the risk for political instability and unrest.
32% : "Venezuela and Iran are hit by a double whammy from Trump.

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