Malaysian palm oil futures closed nearly 1 percent higher on Wednesday, posting their third straight session of gains, on the back of a weaker ringgit. (Filepic shows an oil palm plantation worker carrying an oil palm bunch to be loaded onto the back of a truck at a plantation near Sepang. - Reuters
* Malaysian palm oil futures rose in late trade on Friday to close the year up 25.1 percent for the strongest annual gain since 2010.
* U.S. wheat futures firmed on Friday on better-than-expected export data and short-covering at year's end, analysts said, but the market still posted an annual decline of about 13 percent.
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