KUALA LUMPUR: The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Monday.
FUNDAMENTALS
* Malaysian palm oil subsided further on Friday, falling for an
eighth-consecutive session to its lowest in more than five years as soybean and
crude prices weighed on the market, and defaults and volatility spooked
traders.
* Nearby U.S. soybean futures climbed to a one-week high on Friday as U.S.
processors scrambled to find scarce old-crop supplies, with the start of the
next harvest still at least a month away in the Midwest.GRA/]
* U.S. crude oil futures fell on Friday for a fifth straight week of declines
while Brent remained under pressure from a stronger dollar and plentiful
supplies despite an escalation of tensions between Russian and Ukraine..
MARKET NEWS
* Wall Street and other stock markets paused on Friday, halting the week's
strong gains, as worsening Ukraine tensions dogged trading, while the dollar
rose after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said policymakers eyeing interest
rate hikes need to move cautiously.
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DATA/EVENTS
> Cargo surveyors Intertek Testing Services and Societe Generale de Surveillance
to release August 1-25 palm oil export data on August 25.
Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 0025 GMT
Contract Month Last Change Low High Volume
MY PALM OIL SEP4 0 +0.00 0 0 0
MY PALM OIL OCT4 0 +0.00 0 0 0
MY PALM OIL NOV4 0 +0.00 0 0 0
CHINA PALM OLEIN JAN5 5110 -148.00 5106 5216 610278
CHINA SOYOIL JAN5 0 +0.00 0 0 0
CBOT SOY OIL DEC4 32.60 +0.00 0.00 0.00 0
NYMEX CRUDE OCT4 93.41 -0.21 93.38 93.53 48
Palm oil prices in Malaysian ringgit per tonne
CBOT soy oil in U.S. cents per pound
Dalian soy oil and RBD palm olein in Chinese yuan per tonne
Crude in U.S. dollars per barrel
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