Oil prices finished 2016 on a high as OPEC and some major non-OPEC producers agreed to cut production in the first half of this year. However, prices have already eased back in the first few days of 2017 as investors become increasingly wary that the promised reductions in output may not materialise in full. Elsewhere, colder weather helped to boost natural gas and coal prices.
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