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The possibility of four straight quarters of earnings declines is staring investors in the face on top of the worst multiweek stock selloff in years, and the worst start of the year ever.
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The yellow metal still hasn’t bounced back, but some expect better times this year.

U.S. markets will hit their lowest point soon and then start to recover from China-centered volatility.

OPEC forecast on Monday that oil supply from non-member countries will post a larger-than-expected decline this year due to the collapse in prices, boosting the need for crude from the producer group. Supply outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would decline by 660,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, led by the United States, OPEC said in a report. Last month, OPEC predicted a drop of 380,000 bpd.

WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging service, is dropping its token $1 a year subscription fee for consumers as it experiments with making businesses pay to send notifications to consumers, Chief Executive Jan Koum said on Monday. The seven-year-old company, which was acquired by social media giant Facebook (FB.O) for $19.2 billion in 2014 and now counts nearly 1 billion users, is testing making restaurants, airlines and credit card companies pay to contact consumers, Koum said.

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With at least some partners likely to balk at the request, PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] could face even bigger obstacles to import diluents and, in consequence, to keep barrels flowing from the Orinoco belt, its main producing region. PDVSA is responsible for providing the naphtha, or light crude, needed to dilute the extra heavy oil produced at the Orinoco Belt, according to contracts signed with foreign partners including Chevron (CVX.N), Repsol (REP.MC) and ONGC.

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