Fox 59 | EconomyOil falls despite fresh Middle East stress Financial Times ... risks of a protracted slowdown into the new year. In addition, the escalating tensions between the two countries chip away still further at the prospect that Opec, the oil market cartel, can come to harmonious consensus on a way forward that ... Saudi Arabia has a giant mess on its hands Oil prices fell 35 percent in 2015 — so what does that mean for 2016? Moving Saudi Arabia's economy beyond oil |