A Venezuelan request for an extraordinary Opec meeting to address low oil prices sent crude futures soaring Wednesday, with frontmonth April Brent gaining $2.32 to close at $35.15 per barrel. Oil rallied even though an Opec gathering seems unlikely because key Mideast producers want to stick with the group's current policy of unrestrained output as they try to drive high-cost non-Opec producers out of the market.
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