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That should ensure that the Saudis remain the swing producer, and thus ultimate price-setter, in the market.
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The KSA is still the swing producer in play, and the one state that America needs to keep onboard to exercise broader geopolitical optionality elsewhere.
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The country is fast becoming to such agricultural commodities as soyabeans what Saudi Arabia is to oil: a swing producer, whose decisions can sway the world market.
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Matt Simmons, the energy analyst who spotted America's falling natural-gas supplies in the late 1990s, told Dow Jones this month that he fears for the Saudis' ability to act as OPEC's swing producer indefinitely.
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Meanwhile, the financial world relies on Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, to act as its swing producer, pumping a little more liquidity into the system when prices are soft, a little less when they drift too high.
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At the other extreme, Saudi Arabia, the most important exporter, is a swing producer, able to vary production levels more easily than most and thus has a crucial role when OPEC seeks to influence the price by restricting or expanding demand.
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