Seven OPEC members kept October output unchanged from September after a Sunday meeting. [1] OPEC posted the Sept. 6 statement. [1] Reuters had previewed the hold. [2] Monday has no new communique in fetched copy. A quiet Vienna is not a surprise cut. Print no new sheet. Do not print a quota vote.

Brent in the nineties on a closed U.S. board is a holiday premium, not a Vienna table. Leave a later 100 to a later edition. Print no new sheet. Print not a cut.

Print no new sheet. Monday is not a Vienna cut. Sunday's hold remains the last named communique. Leave a later 100 to Tuesday if Tuesday owns one. Print no new sheet as Monday's named OPEC hold. A closed New York board is still not a quota. Closed boards hold; Monday's holds. Print no addendum as still not a surprise cut. Print the nineties as still not a vote.

Held boards hold; Monday's holds. Holding is the update. Quotas wait on Vienna.

Vienna waits; Monday has Sunday's freeze and no addendum. Closed New York is not a quota. The nineties are still not a vote.

Vienna's last named sheet is Sunday's: October matches September. Seven members met, then went quiet with no Monday addendum. That freeze is not a surprise cut. Nineties Brent on a dark New York board is not a quota ballot.
That freeze is not a surprise cut. Nineties are still not a vote. October matches September on Sunday's sheet.

That freeze is not a surprise cut. Nineties are still not a vote. October matches September on Sunday's sheet.

-- DARA OSEI, London