Saturday, 6 April 2013

Crude Palm Oil Ends Down; Industry Report Awaited

Crude Palm oil futures on Malaysia’s derivatives exchange end down tracking declines in rival CBOT soyoil markets and as investors refrain from aggressive bets ahead of a slew of industry data due next week.

Palm oil remains biased to the downside in the coming weeks as "very soon palm oil production will start to rise again in Malaysia [from April] and drive up stock levels," a Kuala Lumpur-based broker says.

Industry regulator MPOB will issue March stocks and production data Wednesday. Market participants say March output was probably flat at 1.29 million-1.30 million tons and inventories in the world's no. 2 producer likely eased between 5% and 9% to around 2.21 million tons-2.31 million tons as exports rose to 1.41 million tons.

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